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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.
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.
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.
Share. Abstract. Mildred was The oldest daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke of Gidea Hall in Essex. His family consisted of five daughters and four sons, of whom four daughters became famous as scholars.
Mildred Cecil, Baroness Burghley 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.
