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Cromwell, Cambridge and the past. The story’s components passed down in the retelling can be summarised as follows. In August 1642 Cromwell raced from Westminster to Cambridgeshire (sometimes accounts add companions) after warnings from his faction amongst Cambridge townsmen of the University’s attempts to send convoys of plate to the King.
Sir Henry Williams, alias Cromwell, was of Welsh descent, the eldest son and heir of Sir Richard Williams ( c. 1510 –1544) and Frances ( c. 1520 – c. 1543 ), daughter of Thomas Murfyn. [2] His grandfather, Morgan ap William, was the son of a man named William, and also used the name Williams, but his father abandoned the Welsh patronymic ...
CROMWELL, alias WILLIAMS, Henry (c.1537-1604), of Hinchingbrooke and Ramsey Abbey, Hunts. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 , ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981 Available from Boydell and Brewer
Alternatively, the match may have come about through existing family links, for in 1614 Elizabeth’s maternal aunt, Eluzai Crane, had married Oliver’s uncle, Henry Cromwell of Upwood. However it came about, the marriage appears to have been a happy one, producing nine children and surviving the strain of Cromwell’s frequent absences on military campaign over the period 1642-51.
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 ...
Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon on 25 April 1599 to a well-connected family. The Cromwells were distantly related to Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s Chief Minister, through his nephew, Richard Williams. Richard later took the last name Cromwell, and his descendants continued to use it. Richard acquired lands in Huntingdonshire and his ...
5 de abr. de 2024 · Henry Cromwell was born at Huntingdon on 20 January 1628. He was educated at Felsted School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Military career. Henry Cromwell entered the New Model Army towards the close of the First Civil War, and was in 1647 either a captain in Harrison's regiment or the commander of Fairfax's lifeguard.
