Biography of Richard Cecil 1495-1553

Paternal Family Tree: Cecil

Before 1495 [his father] David Cecil (age 35) and [his mother] Alice Dicons were married.

Around 1495 Richard Cecil was born to David Cecil (age 35) and Alice Dicons.

Before 1520 Richard Cecil (age 25) and Jane Heckington were married.

After 1520 Richard Cecil (age 25) was appointed Groom of the Robes and Constable of Warwick Castle.

Field of the Cloth of Gold

In Jun 1520 Henry VIII (age 28) hosted Field of the Cloth of Gold at Balinghem [Map].

Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset (age 42) carried the Sword of State.

Bishop John Stokesley (age 45) attended as Henry VIII's chaplain.

Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye (age 36), Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 42), Anthony Poyntz (age 40), William Coffin (age 25), William "Great" Courtenay (age 43), Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex (age 37), William Paston (age 41), William Denys (age 50), Richard Cecil (age 25), William Parr 1st Baron Parr of Horton (age 37), Ralph Neville 4th Earl of Westmoreland (age 22), John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 40), Henry Guildford (age 31), Marmaduke Constable (age 40), William Compton (age 38), William Blount 4th Baron Mountjoy (age 42), Thomas Cheney (age 35), Henry Willoughby (age 69), John Rodney (age 59), John Marney 2nd Baron Marney (age 36), William Sidney (age 38), John de Vere 14th Earl of Oxford (age 20), John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford (age 49), Edmund Walsingham (age 40), William Skeffington (age 55) and Thomas West 8th Baron De La Warr 5th Baron West (age 63) attended.

William Carey (age 20) jousted.

William Sandys 1st Baron Sandys Vyne (age 50) organised.

Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford (age 15) attended.

Thomas Brooke 8th Baron Cobham (age 50), Robert Willoughby 2nd Baron Willoughby 10th Baron Latimer (age 48), Anthony Wingfield (age 33), William Scott (age 61), Thomas Wriothesley (age 32), Bishop Thomas Ruthall (age 48), Margaret Dymoke (age 20) and Edward Chamberlayne (age 36) were present.

On 13 Sep 1520 [his son] William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley was born to Richard Cecil (age 25) and [his wife] Jane Heckington at Bourne.

Around 1522 [his daughter] Margaret Cecil was born to Richard Cecil (age 27) and [his wife] Jane Heckington.

In 1539 Richard Cecil (age 44) was appointed High Sheriff of Rutlandshire.

In Sep 1540 [his father] David Cecil (age 80) died. He was buried at St George's Church, Stamford.

In 1541 [his son] William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley (age 20) and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Cheke were married.

On 21 Dec 1546 [his son] William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley (age 26) and [his daughter-in-law] Mildred Cooke Baroness Burghley (age 20) were married.

On 19 Mar 1553 Richard Cecil (age 58) died at Canon Row. He was buried at St Margaret's Church, Westminster [Map].

After 19 Mar 1553. St Martin's Church, Stamford [Map]. Monument to Richard Cecil (deceased) and his wife [his former wife] Jane Heckington. Kneeling figures under an elaborate cornice. Attributed to Cornelius Cure. Elizabethan Period.

Jane Heckington: she was born to William Heckington. Before 1520 Richard Cecil and she were married. On 10 Mar 1587 she died.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 22 Mar 1553. The xxij day of Marche was bered master Syssylle (deceased) sqwyr, and gentyllman of the kynges robes, and the father unto sir Hare Sysselle (age 32) knyght, and bered at saynt Margates at Westmynster [Map], with cote armur and ys penon of armes; and he had a-nodur cote armur, and a penon, was mad and cared in-to the contrey wher he dwelt.

Note. Funeral of Richard Cecil esquire. This was the father of the great lord Burghley, whom our diarist on this occasion erroneously calls "sir Harry" instead of sir William Cecil. There is a monument to him, with kneeling effigies of himself, wife, and three daughters, (recently very carefully repaired,) in the church of Saint Martin at Stamford [Map]: an engraving of which is in Peck's History of that town, fol. 1727, p. 69, and in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, vol. i. p. 4. In the inscription he is said to have died on 19th May, 1552. Lord Burghley in his Diary states the date on the 19th March 1553, with which Machyn's entry agrees.

On 10 Mar 1587 [his former wife] Jane Heckington died.

[his daughter] Elizabeth Cecil was born to Richard Cecil and Jane Heckington.

[his daughter] Anne Cecil was born to Richard Cecil and Jane Heckington.

Royal Descendants of Richard Cecil 1495-1553

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom x 2

Queen Consort Camilla Shand x 1

Diana Spencer Princess Wales x 11

Ancestors of Richard Cecil 1495-1553

Great x 1 Grandfather: Philip Cecil

GrandFather: Richard Cecil

Father: David Cecil

Richard Cecil

Mother: Alice Dicons