Elizabeth CECIL^{[1, 2]}

1574 - 1646  (71 years)

• Name	Elizabeth CECIL
  Born	22 Sep 1574	Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Occupation	Lady in Waiting to Anne of Denmark
  Twin?	Y
  Died	3 Jan 1646	Hatton House, Holborn, Middlesex, England
  Person ID	I10102	Main
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Sir Thomas CECIL,   b. 5 May 1542, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England ,   d. 7 Feb 1623, Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England  (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Dorothy NEVILLE,   b. 1548, Snape Hall, Snape, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 23 Mar 1608, London, Middlesex, England  (Age 60 years)
  Married	27 Nov 1564	Yorkshire, England
  Photos		Snape_Castle
  Family ID	F3462	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sir William Newport HATTON,   b. 1 Jul 1570, Holborn, Middlesex, England ,   d. 12 Mar 1597, Hatton House, Holborn, Middlesex, England  (Age 26 years)
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2020
  Family ID	F17164	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  m1 Sir William HATTON m2 Sir Edward COKE was wooed by Sir Francis Bacon —— Elizabeth was 26 years younger than her second husband and had a disposition that was hot-tempered and articulate. They were said to be not compatible but at least well-matched. By 1604, Elizabeth's marriage to Sir Edward Coke deteriorated and she was said to have become a formidable character and thorn at her husband's side. They quarreled over their respective rights to the Hatton estate which Elizabeth had inherited from her first husband: the dispute became so bitter that the King intervened personally to mediate.  Elizabeth and her husband were never reconciled: at his funeral she remarked "We shall never see his like again, thanks be to God". —— Elizabeth was left a wealthy widow, her property including the Isle of Purceck (with Corfe Castle) and Hatton House, Holborn… She was courted by Francis Bason and Edward Coke. The Cecil family preferred Coke, the Attorney-General, and Elizabeth married him in November 1598. She refused, however, to use his name or to live with him after the birth of their daughters, Elizabeth and Frances…. She continued to quarrel with Coke over his misappropriations of her property and his refusal to maintain her until 1616 when he fell into disgrace and was dismissed from his post as Chief Justice. Elizabeth then stood by her husband, even going to live with him at Stoke Poges, but in the following year a dispute over their daughter Frances’s marriage led to their las and bitterest quarrel. Coke wish her to marry Buckingham’s elder brother; Elizabeth went to great lengths to prevent this, stealing Frances away and forging a proposal to her from the Earl of Oxford. Frances was kidnapped back by her father. At first Elizabeth received help from Bacon, but he changed sides on hearing that James I favored the marriage; Elizabeth was placed under house arrest, and Frances whipped into submission. After the marriage (November 1617), Elizabeth submitted to the King and was released, but she was never reconciled to her husband. She continued to live at Hatton House until Coke’s death, giving parties to which Coke was not admitted. When in 1623 Frances left her (now insane) husband for a lover, Elizabeth was involved in her daughter’s disgrace. She supported the Parliamentarian cause in the Civl War, and survived her daughter Frances by some six months. Who's Who in Shakespeare's England: Over 700 Concise Biographies of Shakespeare's Contemporaries, Alan Palmer, Veronica Palmer, Palgrave Macmillan, 1999; p110 [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S67] CECIL. The Witten/Cecil Family, Randy Cecil. [S69] CECIL. The Cecil’s of Hatfield House, An English Ruling Family, Cecil, David, (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA. 1973). [S76] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hatton.