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Elizabeth Cromwell (née Bourchier; 1598 –1665) was the wife of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the mother of Richard Cromwell, the second Lord Protector.
5 de dez. de 2014 · There's a special mystery around the life of Elizabeth Cromwell. She was a genuine commoner and very few documents survive other than records of her marriage and death.
5 de mar. de 2012 · Summary. T he wife of the remarkable man, who for some years swayed the sceptre of England, and dictated to Europe, is differently represented by various writers, according to the party they espoused. By some, his rise and perseverance is attributed to her influence; by others, she is represented as an ordinary person.
23 de set. de 2023 · Elizabeth Cromwell rose from obscurity to become Lady Protectoress during England's only republic. Civil War re-enactors will parade through a village during a two-day event to...
- Burial and Disinterment
- Cromwell Family Disinterments
- St Margaret's Churchyard Memorial
- Elizabeth Claypole
- Further Reading
Cromwell died at Whitehall on 3rd September 1658. His body was embalmed and taken privately to Somerset House on 20 September. The public lying in state began on 18 October until 10 November. He was then buried privately without ceremony, according to contemporary sources, in a vault at the east end of Henry VII's chapel in the Abbey on the night o...
By Royal Warrant of 9th September 1661 the bodies of Oliver's mother Elizabeth, who had died on 18th November 1654, and his sister Jane (wife of Major General John Desborough) who died in 1656, together with other regicides who had been interred in the Abbey since 1641, were also removed but this time the bodies were thrown in a pit in the churchya...
A modern incised inscription records all the names of those re-buried in the churchyard, including Henry Ireton, Elizabeth and Jane, on the base of the tower near the west entrance of St Margaret's. The others are: Robert Blake, Denis Bond, Nicholas Boscawen, Mary Bradshaw, Sir William Constable, Richard Deane, Isaac Dorislaus, Anne Fleetwood, Thom...
Only Oliver's favourite daughter Elizabeth Claypole, who died on 6th August 1658, still lies in the Abbey, as her vault was in a different part of the chapel and was not found at the time the others were being dis-interred. A small modern stone marks her grave to the north of Henry VII's monument. A photograph of the Cromwell stone and regicides ta...
The Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon (housed in Oliver's old schoolhouse) is open to the public. "Oliver Cromwell. King in all but name" by Roy Sherwood (1997) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Journal of the Huntingdonshire Local History Society vol.3, no.7 (1999) "Constructing Cromwell" by Laura Knoppers (2000) "Cromwell's coffin plate" in Westm...
23 de set. de 2023 · Elizabeth Cromwell rose from obscurity to become Lady Protectoress during England's only republic. Civil War re-enactors will parade through a village during a two-day event to shine a...
Elizabeth Cromwell - Her Highness The Lady Protector Of Britain Oliver Cromwell rose to power during the English Civil War, and defeated the King’s royalist ...
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