| Name |
Cecil, Richard |
| Prefix |
1st Lord |
| Suffix |
MP |
| Birth |
Abt 1495 |
Gloucester, , Gloucestershire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
 Occupation |
Aft 1510 |
- Sheriff of Rutland, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, Page to Henry VII, High Sheriff of Rutland, constable of Warwick Castle, Laborer
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| Other Info or Events |
Aft 19 Mar 1553 |
- Some source info from;
Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 125. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
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| Other Info or Events |
Aft 19 Mar 1553 |
- Wikipedia ; Sir Richard Cecil (ca. 1495 - 19 March 1553) was an English nobleman, politician, courtier, and Master of Burghley (Burleigh) in the parish of Stamford Baron, Northamptonshire. His father Sir David Cecil, of Welsh ancestry, rose in favour under King Henry VIII of England, becoming High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1532 and 1533, and died in 1541.
Richard too was a courtier. In 1517 he was a royal page; in 1520 he was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold; he rose to be Groom of the Robes and constable of Warwick Castle. He was High Sheriff of Rutland in 1539, and was one of those who received no inconsiderable share of the plunder of the monasteries. He married Jane Heckington, daughter and heiress of William Heckington of Bourne, Lincolnshire. He had one son, William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520– 1598), and three daughters.
When Richard died, he left an ample estate behind him in the counties of Rutland, Northamptonshire and elsewhere. He died at his house in Canon Row and was buried at St Margaret's, Westminster.
Jane was a widow for 35 years dying 10 March 1587. Richard and Jane have a joint monument in St Martin's Church, Stamford.
Family
He sent his son William to the grammar schools of Stamford and Grantham, and in 1535 William entered St John's College, Cambridge. Academically a success, William ran foul of his father, when his heart was lost to Mary Cheke, daughter of a local widow, with only a fortune of 40 pounds to recommend her. William was immediately removed before he could take his degree, and was entered as a student at Gray's Inn in 1541. If the motive was to prevent a marriage, it failed. Two months after he came up to London, William married Mary, probably secretly. Thomas, the future Earl of Exeter and only fruit of this union was born at Cambridge on 5 May 1542, therefore presumably at his grandmother's house. The marriage was so distasteful to Richard, that he is said to have altered his will, or at any rate, to have intended to do so. But the young wife did not live long, dying on 22 February 1544.
Of his daughters, Anne (also called Agnes) married Thomas White of Tuxford, Notts.; Margaret married Roger Cave (see Cave-Browne-Cave baronets), nephew of Sir Ambrose Cave, and secondly Ambrose Smith; and Elizabeth married Robert Wingfield and secondly[citation needed] Hugh Allington.
References
Wallace T. MacCaffrey (2004) "Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley (1520/21– 1598)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4983 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
Further reading The Cecil Family, by George Ravenscroft Dennis
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| Death |
19 May 1553 |
Westminster, London, England |
- Sir Richard died at Westminster in his house in Canons Row, and was buried at this church on 22 Mar 1553**.
An elaborate monument to him and his wife was later erected at St. Martin's Stamford in Lincolnshire, where she was laid to rest.
(**During his day the Julian calendar was in use, in which the new year began in late March rather than January as it now does. In order that the year of his death and burial correspond to our modern calendar, historians correct the year or, alternatively, express it as 1552/53.)
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| Biography |
Aft 19 May 1553 |
- From Find a Grave
He was a resident and Master of Burghley in the parish of Stamford Baron, Northamptonshire. His father David Cecil, of Welsh ancestry, rose in favour under King Henry VIII of England, becoming High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1529 and 1530, and died in 1541. Richard too was a courtier. In 1517 he was a royal page; in 1520 he was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold; he rose to be Groom of the Robes and constable of Warwick Castle. He was High Sheriff of Rutland in 1539, and was one of those who received no inconsiderable share of the plunder of the monasteries. He married Jane Heckington, daughter and heiress of William Heckington of Bourne, Lincolnshire. He had one son, William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520– 1598), and three daughters. When he died, he left an ample estate behind him in the counties of Rutland, Northamptonshire and elsewhere. He died at his house in Cannon Row and was buried at St Margaret's, Westminster.
Like his father Sir David Cecil, Richard was a courtier who rose in rank and influence in Tudor England.
In about 1519 he married Jane, the daughter of Sir William Heckington of Bourne in Lincolnshire. They were the parents of three daughters, Anne (also called Agnes), Elizabeth, and Margaret; and a son, William, who became one of the most politically powerful men in England.
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| Tombstone |
Aft 19 May 1553 |
St. Martin's Churchyard, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England |
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Cecil, Richard
St. Martin's Churchyard, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England |
| Reference Number |
10494 |
| Burial |
St. Martin's Churchyard, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England |
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Cecil, Richard
St. Martin's Churchyard, Stamford, England |
| Person ID |
I342731 |
1FamilyTree |
| Last Modified |
2 Sep 2018 |
Abt 1495 - 1553 (~ 58 years)
