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Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC (1 June 1563 – 24 May 1612) was an English statesman noted for his direction of the government during the Union of the Crowns, as Tudor England gave way to Stuart rule (1603).
May 28, 2024 · Robert Cecil, 1st earl of Salisbury was an English statesman who succeeded his father, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, as Queen Elizabeth I’s chief minister in 1598 and skillfully directed the government during the first nine years of the reign of King James I. Cecil gave continuity to the change.
Jul 25, 2023 · Sir Robert Cecil (b. 1563–d. 1612), created 1st earl of Salisbury in 1605, was the most influential politician in the final years of Elizabeth I’s reign and played a leading role in the first decade of James VI & I’s occupancy of the English throne.
Jan 16, 2022 · Sir Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. Born : 1 June 1563 – Westminster, Salisbury. Died : 24 May 1612 – St Margaret’s Priory, Marlborough. Robert Cecil had a spectacular career by any political yardstick, rising to hold jointly the two highest civil offices of the land during the reigns of Elizabeth I, and James VI/I, thus eclipsing the ...
May 9, 2018 · Cecil, Robert, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612) English statesman, son of Lord Burghley. He became secretary of state to Elizabeth I on his father's retirement in 1596. Cecil was chiefly responsible for negotiating the accession of James I (1603).
Robert Cecil: Earl of Salisbury, Minister of Elizabeth and James I Cecil secured the peaceful accession of the Stuarts and strove with near success, Joel Hurstfield writes, to solve the vexatious problems that confronted the new dynasty in England and upon the European scene.
1st Earl of Salisbury and 1st Viscount Cranborne: History: Robert Cecil was a son of Elizabeth I's chief minister William Cecil, Lord Burghley. He was knighted in 1591 and was...
