Ist Viscount Wimbledon Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon[1, 2, 3, 4]

Male 1571 - 1638  (67 years)


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  • Name Edward Cecil 
    Title Ist Viscount Wimbledon 
    Prefix Sir 
    Suffix Viscount Wimbledon 
    Born 1571  Burghley, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation Cavalry Officer 
    Died 16 Nov 1638  Spm, Church Of Wimbledon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age 67 years 
    Buried Church, Wimbledon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I110  Curtis Hayward
    Last Modified 14 Aug 2020 

    Father Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl Exeter,   b. 5 May 1542, St. Marys, The Great Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Feb 1622, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Dorothy Neville, Lady,   b. 1548, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Mar 1609, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Married 27 Nov 1564  York, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F51  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Theodosia Noel,   b. 1578, Dalby, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1616, Holland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years) 
    Married 10 Jun 1601  Brook Rutland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Dorothy Cecil,   b. 1603, Burghley, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 May 1652, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years)
    +2. Albinia Cecil, Hon,   b. 1604, Holland In The Fields, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1660, St. Giles In The Fields, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)
     3. Elizabeth Cecil,   b. 1606, Burghley, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Mar 1661  (Age 55 years)
     4. Child Cecil,   b. 1608, Burghley, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Feb 1608  (Age 0 years)
     5. Frances Cecil,   b. 1610, Burghley, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jul 1684  (Age 74 years)
    Last Modified 14 Aug 2020 
    Family ID F50  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Aged 23 made a Grand Tour and probably met a lady named Albinia a name ha bestowed on his 2nd daughter little foreseeing when he did so that it would be borne by nearly 100 descendants of Albinia Ceciland be a connecting link between a number

      of aristocratic families.( Albina is a popular womans name in Italy)

    • Captain of Foot served in Holland. created Baron Putney and Viscount Wimbledon in 1625 for his military service. Later was cencured after the naval defeat at Cadiz.
    • Married at Brooke

       

      HISTORY: Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon (29 February 1572-16 November) was an English military and naval commander.

      The third son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter and grandson of Queen Elizabeth's great minister Lord Burghley, Cecil served with the English forces in the Netherlands between 1596 and 1610, becoming a captain of foot in 1599, knighted in 1601, and taking command of the English forces there in 1610.

      Later, becoming a favourite of the Duke of Buckingham, he was given command of Buckingham's military expedition to Spain in October 1625, but so mismanaged the attack on Cadiz that he entirely missed the treasure ships which were the main objective of the attack. Nevertheless in the following month, November 1625, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cecil of Putney and Viscount Wimbledon. He returned to command the English forces in the Netherlands from 1627 (the Siege of Groenlo) until 1629 (the Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch, and was Governor of Portsmouth from 1630 to 1638.

      He was also Member of Parliament for Aldborough in 1601, and Lord Lieutenant of from 1627 to 1638.

      In 1601 he married Theodosia Noel (b. 1585), daughter of Sir Andrew Noel of Dalby. They had four daughters:

      Dorothy Cecil (1603-1652), who died unmarried

      Albinia Cecil (d. 1660), who married Sir Christopher Wray of Ashby

      Elizabeth Cecil, who married Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham

      Frances Cecil (d. 1684), who married first James Fiennes, 2nd Viscount Saye and Sele and second the Reverend Joshua Sprigge.

      Following the death of his first wife, in 1617 he married Diana Drury (d. 1631), daughter of Sir William Drury of Hawstead. Their only child, Anne, died in infancy. His third marriage, 1635, was to Sophia Zouche (c. 1618-1691), daughter of Sir Edward Zouche of Woking. By her he had a son, Algernon, but this child also died aged less than a year old.

      Wimbledon died in 1638. Both his titles became extinct on his death.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Cecil,_1st_Viscount_Wimbledon

  • Sources 
    1. [S29] Albinia book in possession of Juliette Browne. (Reliability: 0).

    2. [S43] Dodd Web Site, William R. Dodd, Edward Cecil (Reliability: 3), 13 Oct 2009.
      Added by confirming a Smart Match

    3. [S61] cecil Web Site, amanda cecil, edward 1st Viscount Wimbledon Cecil (Reliability: 3), 31 Dec 2011.
      Added by confirming a Smart Match

    4. [S74] Bradley Web Site, Penny Bradley, Edward Cecil (Reliability: 3), 23 Sep 2012.
      Added by confirming a Smart Match


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