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Bridget Cromwell - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Life. Death and legacy. References. Bridget Cromwell (1624 – June 1662) was Oliver Cromwell 's eldest daughter. She married General Henry Ireton and after he died, General Charles Fleetwood . Life. She was born to Elizabeth (born Bouchier) and Oliver Cromwell in 1624.
Learn about the life and family of Oliver Cromwell, the English military and political leader who became Lord Protector of England. Find out how he met and married Elizabeth Bourchier, and who were their nine children.
Bridget Cromwell was the eldest daughter of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. She married twice, first to Henry Ireton, a soldier and her father's supporter, and then to Charles Fleetwood, who helped govern England after Oliver's death.
Bridget Cromwell (born 1624) was Sir Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector's eldest daughter and the eldest of his children to survive into full adulthood. Almost nothing is known of her life until 1646, when she married Henry Ireton, senior parliamentarian officer and close confidant of Oliver.
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.
Henry Ireton married Bridget Cromwell (pictured), daughter of Oliver Cromwell, during the Siege of Oxford. Ireton was at the siege of Bristol in September 1645, and took part in the subsequent campaign that succeeded in overthrowing the royal cause. On 30 October 1645, Ireton entered parliament as member for Appleby.
Only one of the boys survived infancy – Oliver Cromwell, who was born in Huntingdon on 25 th April 1599. We know relatively little about Oliver’s early life. We know that he attended the Huntingdon Grammar School (then located in the building which is now the Cromwell Museum) between 1610 and 1616, where he would have received a ...
