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Henry Ireton, född 1611 i Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, död 26 november 1651 i Limerick, var en engelsk fältherre och politiker . Vid det engelska inbördeskrigets utbrott 1642 deltog Ireton på parlamentsarméns sida mot kung Karl I:s trupper. Under kriget kom han att bli nära allierad med Oliver Cromwell och gifte sig 1646 med dennes ...
Há 4 dias · 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, Parliamentary official and son in law of Oliver Cromwell, was buried in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey but later exhumed.
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.
(1611–51).Ireton was plunged into the Civil War, since he was appointed by Parliament to command the horse at Nottingham two months before Charles I raised his standard in the same town. He fought at Edgehill and in the first battle of Newbury, where he was wounded, and rapidly became one of Cromwell's most trusted lieutenants.
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. Ireton, more than any other individual, even Cromwell, brought about the execution of Charles I.
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.
