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Thomas Cromwell (c. 1485 – 28 de julho de 1540 ), 1.º conde de Essex, foi um estadista inglês que serviu como primeiro-ministro de Henrique VIII no período de 1532 a 1540.
Cromwell realised people would be more willing to support Henry’s decisions if they were involved in making them. Parliament could represent everyone: the nobility and the Church in the House of Lords, and the towns and countryside in the House of Commons. They were loyal to Henry, and so usually supported any Acts put forward in the King’s ...
Cromwell family. The Cromwell family is an English aristocratic family descended from Hugh de Cromwell who came to England with William the Conqueror. Its most famous members are: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex; and, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector. The line of Oliver Cromwell descends from Richard Williams (alias Cromwell), son of ...
We can not look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him. (Thomas Carlyle) Lord Henry Cromwell (20 January 1628 – 23 March 1696) was the fourth son of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Bourchier, and an important figure in the Parliamentarian regime in Ireland and 2nd Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland on the death of his father ...
Henry Cromwell was the fourth son of Oliver Cromwell and his wife, Elizabeth Bourchier, born in Huntingdon on 20 January 1628. He was baptised at Huntingdon on 29th. [1] Educated at Felsted School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge he served under his father during the latter part of the Civil War.
Henry Cromwell. after Unknown artist, published by John Thane line engraving, published 1796 NPG D28753
Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon, a small town near Cambridge, on 25 April 1599 to Robert Cromwell and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Steward. Although not a direct descendent of Henry VIII ’s chief minister Thomas Cromwell (who was famously promoted to the earldom of Essex but later executed in 1540 when he fell from the King ...
