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Dorothy Cromwell (née Maijor; c.1620 – 5 January 1675) was the wife of the second Lord Protector, Richard Cromwell, who succeeded to the post in 1659 following the death of his father, Oliver Cromwell.
In 1649, Cromwell married Dorothy Maijor, daughter of Richard Maijor, a member of the Hampshire gentry. He and his wife then moved to Maijor's estate at Hursley in Hampshire. During the 1650s they had nine children, five of whom survived to adulthood.
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.
20 de jul. de 2022 · Elizabeth and Dorothy Cromwell occupied unprecedented—and unpreceded—positions in the Anglo-Scottish hierarchy: they were leading women in a state that had temporarily thrown off its monarchy.
When Richard Cromwell was born on 4 October 1626, in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England, his father, Lord Oliver Cromwell, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Bourchier, was 28. He married Dorothy Maijor on 1 May 1649, in Hursley, Hampshire, England.
2 de dez. de 2020 · He then went on to become a member of Lincoln’s Inn and by 1649 he had entered into a successful marriage with Dorothy Maijor, whose family were part of the gentry. The married couple went on to live in the Maijor family estate in Hampshire and had nine children.
25 de abr. de 2024 · Dorothy Cromwell (née Maijor) (1627-1676), Wife of Richard Cromwell. Sitter in 1 portrait
