Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Robert Cecil
First Earl of
Salisbury
- Family life
- He was the son of
William Cecil, 1st
Baron Burghley and
Mildred Cooke. His
half-brother was
Thomas Cecil and
Francis Bacon was
his cousin.
- Cecil married
Elizabeth, the
daughter of William
Brooke, 10th Baron
Cobham in 1589.
- Their son, William Cecil
was born in Westminster
on 28 March 1591. He
succeeded his father as
Earl of Salisbury.
- Working life
- Salisbury was made Secretary of State
following the death of Sir Francis
Walsingham in 1590.
- Became the leading minister after the
death of his father in 1598, serving both
Queen Elizabeth and King James as
Secretary of State.
- Baron Cecil 1603
- Viscount Cranborne 1604
- Ear of Salisbury 1605
- Gunpowder Plot 1605
- Cecil orchestrated the whole plot?
- Convince James
I that Catholics
were not to be
trusted?
- Catholics should
once and for all be
thrown out of the
country?