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Henry Ireton was born in a house to the west of Attenborough church. During the time of the English Civil Wars (1642 - 1649) he became a famous Parliamentary general who went on to marry a daughter of Oliver Cromwell.
Henry Ireton. żołnierz, polityk. Henry Ireton (ur. 1611 w Attenborough, zm. 28 listopada 1651 w Limerick) – angielski żołnierz i polityk, jeden z dowódców armii parlamentu w angielskiej wojnie domowej .
Henry Ireton (gedoopt Attenborough, 3 november 1611 – Limerick, 26 november 1651) was een Engels legerleider en revolutionair in de Oorlogen van de Drie Koninkrijken. Als schoonzoon van Oliver Cromwell speelde hij een voorname rol in de staatsgreep tegen het Long Parliament en in de onthoofding van koning Karel I van Engeland .
Henry Ireton and the English Revolution. David Farr. Boydell, 2006 - History - 277 pages. A devout puritan, Henry Ireton was an immediate parliamentarian activist rising to the rank of Commissary-General of the New Model Army. Ireton shared Oliver Cromwell's religious enthusiasm and acted as one of his political mentors.
Henry Ireton's own regiment repulsed their Royalist opposite numbers, but Ireton then led at least part of them to the aid of the beleaguered Parliamentarian infantry. His troopers were driven off by Royalist pikemen, and Ireton himself was unhorsed, wounded in the leg and face and taken prisoner.
25 de mai. de 2024 · By his wife, Bridget Cromwell, Ireton left one son, Henry Ireton (circa 1652–1711), and four daughters, one of whom, Bridget Bendish (she married Thomas Bendish in 1670) is said to have compromised herself in the Rye House Plot of 1683, as did Henry. Ireton's widow Bridget afterward married General Charles Fleetwood.
Henry Ireton. Cromwell passed the command of Parliamentarian forces in Ireland to Ireton in 1650. He died of disease at the Siege of Limerick in 1651. The following spring, Cromwell mopped up the remaining walled towns in Ireland's southeast—notably the Confederate capital of Kilkenny, which surrendered on terms.
