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This portrait of Oliver Cromwell was painted around the time that King Charles I was executed, in 1649. The artist, Robert Walker, was an English portrait painter who was popular with Cromwell and the. Parliamentarians. Parliamentarian A person who supported Parliament during the English Civil Wars from 1642–51.
Mother of Oliver Cromwell Elizabeth Cromwell was born Elizabeth Steward. She was the daughter of William Stewart, who had inherited from his uncle, the Prior of Ely, leases of abbey lands in the early days of the Reformation. The leases passed to Elizabeth's childless brother Thomas and, in 1636, to her son Oliver. In she married Robert Cromwell, grandson of Thomas Cromwell's sister.
Robert Cromwell (d 1617) was one of the younger sons of Sir Henry; he married Elizabeth, daughter of William Steward (d 1594). Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth had ten children (three sons and seven daughters). Their eldest son was called Henry, presumably in honour of Robert’s own father, but he died soon after birth in 1595.
In August 1620, just a few months after his twenty-first birthday, Oliver Cromwell married Elizabeth Bourchier at St Giles’s church in Cripplegate, London. Elizabeth had been born in 1598, the eldest of twelve children (nine sons and three daughters) of Sir James Bourchier and his wife Frances, who was a daughter of Thomas Crane of Newton ...
Oliver Cromwell. Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) was Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 to his death in 1658. Cromwell was born to Robert Cromwell (d. 1617) and Elizabeth Steward (d. 1654) in Huntington on 25 April 1599. In 1616 he attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and departed the college in 1617 after the death of ...
Há 1 dia · Lord Protector. 1599 - 1658. Oliver Cromwell was born at Huntingdon, into the ranks of the English gentry on 25th April 1599, during the latter years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, he was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Cromwell (nee Steward). Oliver was distantly related to Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's minister, his father being descended ...
Robert died in 1617 and his property passed to his only surviving son, Oliver. Years later, Cromwell recalled that he had been ‘by birth a gentleman, living in neither any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity’.
