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51°41′20″N 0°3′22″W. Close. Set in extensive parkland, it was a residence of statesmen Lord Burghley and his son, both leading royal advisers. It was a notable example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, and was the favourite residence of King James I, who died there. The palace was demolished as a result of the English Civil War.
It was at Theobalds that James received the homage of the Privy Council. A royal palace. James Stuart was as taken with Theobalds as Elizabeth had been, and went one step further. In 1607, he persuaded Cecil to exchange the property for Hatfield House, the family’s seat ever since.
When Cecil bought Theobalds in 1564 from John Ellyott, a London mercer, it was an unprepossessing moated manor house which he initially replaced with a modest courtyard house. However, from the late 1560s he began an ambitious building programme that re-built the house on a vast scale, turning it into the largest private house in England.
House & Family History: The manor of Theobalds had a number of earlier names: Cullynges, Tongs, Thebaudes, Tibbolds, and finally Theobalds. Originally surrounded by a moat, the 16th century house was begun in 1564 (enlarged and remodeled in the 1570s) for William Cecil, Queen Elizabeth I's virtual prime minister (the actual office of prime minister wasn't created until the 18th century).
Theobalds is notable as a house that was designed, in particular, to reflect the tastes and requirements of the itinerant monarch and royal court.17 At home and abroad, the house was known to people who moved in the highest circles, a number of whom visited it and recorded their impressions. It was host to Queen Elizabeth in at least
Theobalds House, also known as Theobalds Palace, stood in south-eastern Hertfordshire, close to the Middlesex border. It was once one of the greatest houses of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Ages, but only ruins now remain, which are to be found in what is now Cedars Park on the outskirts of Cheshunt. The legacy of Theobalds though is spread ...
17 de nov. de 2017 · Download Citation | Theobalds, Hertfordshire: The Plan and Interiors of an Elizabethan Country House | This article aims to reconstruct the plan of Theobalds, Hertfordshire, built between 1564 and ...
