Richard Cecil (courtier)
William Cecil, Lord Burghley) | |
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| Parent(s) | Sir David Cecil Alice Dicons |
Sir Richard Cecil (ca. 1495 – 19 March 1553) was an English nobleman, politician, courtier, and Master 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
William Cecil, Lord Burghley
(1520–1598), and three daughters.
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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
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.[citation needed
]
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 Smythe of Husbands Bosworth, co Leic; and Elizabeth married Robert Wingfield and secondly Hugh Alington.[1]
References
- ^ Lincolnshire Pedigrees, "Alington of Swinhope". Accessed 6 January 2023.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4983 (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
Further reading
- The Cecil Family, by George Ravenscroft Dennis