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Oliver Cromwell. Published. 1845. Publisher. Chapman and Hall. Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations is a book by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. It "remains one of the most important works of British history published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." [1]
We also recommend looking at the Cromwell Association’s website for more in-depth information and resources on Cromwell. Early Life Oliver Cromwell was descended from a lesser branch of the Cromwell family, distantly descended from (as great, great grand-uncle) Thomas Cromwell, Chief Minister to King Henry VIII.
Cromwell was not directly descended from Henry VIII’s chief minister Thomas Cromwell, who was elevated to the earldom of Essex but was condemned and executed in 1540 when he fell from favour, though he was connected to him via Thomas’s sister. Oliver’s great-great-grandfather, Morgan Williams, had married Thomas Cromwell’s sister ...
22 de dez. de 2021 · Following the defeat of King Charles I in the English Civil Wars, and later his trial and execution, Oliver Cromwell became ‘Lord Protector’ in 1653. Cromwell was a Puritan, a strict ...
In 1497 he married a Katherine Cromwell, whose brother Thomas Cromwell became chief minister to Henry VIII and was raised to the peerage as Earl of Essex. In honour of their mother’s famous and powerful brother, their own maternal uncle, Morgan’s sons, who were of course born with the surname Williams, began calling themselves Williams-alias- Cromwell or just Cromwell.
3 de jan. de 2023 · Here are 10 facts about the England’s first Lord Protector. 1. He was distantly related to Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister. Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon to a family in the landed gentry. His great-great-grandmother, Katherine, was Thomas Cromwell ‘s older sister, and her sons chose to take her name, Cromwell, rather ...
26 de fev. de 2015 · Though this binary representation of More and Cromwell has a long pedigree – the Protestant propagandist John Foxe thought Cromwell a ‘valiant captain of Christ’, while More, a saint no less since 1935, has a special place in the hearts of English Catholics – it is Robert Bolt’s play of 1960, A Man for All Seasons – and, even more so, the film adaptation of 1966 – which revived ...
