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22 de mai. de 2020 · Thomas Cromwell (l. c. 1485-1540 CE) served as chief minister to Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE) from 1532 to 1540 CE. With his king and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer (in office 1533-55 CE), Cromwell masterminded the English Reformation which saw the Church in England break away from the Pope in Rome and such momentous acts as the Dissolution of the Monasteries .
23 de fev. de 2023 · The love Cromwell felt for his family seems evident in his actions after his wife and children died. Letters show that, for the first time in his professional life, payments went unpaid, replies were not sent to letters, he snapped at friends, and Bishop Gardiner even came looking for Cromwell as he could not be contacted by Wolsey.
18 de jan. de 2017 · Thomas Cromwell (1485 – 1540) rose from obscurity to be the trusted right-hand man of King Henry VIII. Under Cromwell’s guidance, Henry broke with the Roman Catholic Church, setting up the Church of England. Cromwell pursued the dissolution of the monasteries and played a key role in the English Protestant Reformation. Known as a ‘fixer’, […]
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 know that Thomas Cromwell married a young wealthy widow in 1514 whose first husband was in cloth and who was also a king’s yeoman. Elizabeth may have inherited her husband’s cloth business. Thomas and Elizabeth, close in age, also could have met as children in Putney. Thomas Cromwell did not come from a totally impoverished family and he ...
20 de mai. de 2020 · At night, I tried to read “Wolf Hall,” figuring that there was no better time to become absorbed in Hilary Mantel’s Tudor trilogy, about the life of Thomas Cromwell, the legendary fixer for ...
Elizabeth Cromwell is a character in Aphra Behn 's 1681 comedic play, The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause. William Fisk depicted Elizabeth and her children supposedly begging Oliver Cromwell to spare the king's life, in his sentimental painting Cromwell's Family Interceding for the Life of Charles I (1840).
