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Mildred Cecil, Baroness Burghley (née Cooke; 1526 – 4 April 1589) was an English noblewoman and translator. She was the wife of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the most trusted adviser of Elizabeth I, and the mother of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, adviser to James I.
Mildred Cooke came from the influential Cooke family of Gidea Hall, Essex, a household renowned for its links with Renaissance humanism and reformist sympathies. Her father, Sir Anthony Cooke, was a royal tutor to King Edward VI; shaping the boy king’s interest in classical learning and Protestantism.
MILDRED COOKE, LADY CECIL AND BARONESS BURGHLEY. BORN: 1526 DIED: 1589. Second wife of William Cecil, mother of Robert Cecil. Daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke. Made translations of Greek texts which were never formally published in her lifetime.
Mildred Cecil, Lady Burghley and her daughter Anne, Countess of Oxford have a large monument, about twenty four feet high, in St Nicholas' chapel in Westminster Abbey near where they are buried. This is attributed to sculptor Cornelius Cure and shows the recumbent effigy of Mildred in front, with that of her daughter on a slightly raised shelf ...
Mildred Cecil, Lady Burghley (1526-1589) Mildred Cooke was educated at home by her father, Sir Anthony Cooke. In 1545 she married William Cecil, later Baron Burghley, and bore him five children.
28 de abr. de 2022 · About Lady Mildred Cecil, Baroness Burghley. Born: 24 Aug 1524, Gidea Hall, Romford, Essex, England. Died: 4 Apr 1589, Burghley House, Strand, Middlesex, England. Buried: 21 Apr 1589, Westminster Abbey, Middlesex, England.
1 de mar. de 2005 · As a serious classical scholar, Mildred Cooke Cecil, Lady Burghley (1526–1589), amassed her own collection of books to support her reading.
