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Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, initially as a senior commander in the Parliamentarian army and latterly as a ...
- Soldier and statesman
- Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- pre-1642 (militia service), 1642–1651 (civil war)
- Robert Cromwell (father), Elizabeth Steward (mother)
- Burial and Disinterment
- Cromwell Family
- St Margaret's Churchyard Memorial
- Elizabeth Claypole
Cromwell died at Whitehall on 3rd September 1658. His body was embalmed and taken privately to Somerset House on 20 September. The public lying in state began on 18 October until 10 November. He was then buried privately without ceremony, according to contemporary sources, in a vault at the east end of Henry VII's chapel in the Abbey on the night o...
By Royal Warrant of 9th September 1661 the bodies of Oliver's mother Elizabeth, who had died on 18th November 1654, and his sister Jane(wife of Major General John Desborough), who died in 1656, together with other regicides who had been interred in the Abbey since 1641, were also removed but this time the bodies were thrown in a pit in the churchya...
A modern incised inscription records all the names of those re-buried in the churchyard, including Henry, Elizabeth and Jane, on the base of the tower near the west entrance of St Margaret's. The others are: Robert Blake, Denis Bond, Nicholas Boscawen, Mary Bradshaw, Sir William Constable, Richard Deane, Isaac Dorislaus, Anne Fleetwood, Thomas Hesi...
Only Oliver's favourite daughter Elizabeth Claypole, who died on 6th August 1658, still lies in the Abbey, as her vault was in a different part of the chapel and was not found at the time the others were being dis-interred. A small modern stone marks her grave to the north of Henry VII's monument. A photograph of the Cromwell stone and regicides ta...
- Soldier,Politician
Elizabeth Cromwell (née Steward) (died 1654), Mother of Oliver Cromwell. Sitter associated with 6 portraits. Elizabeth Cromwell was born Elizabeth Steward. She was the daughter of William Stewart, who had inherited from his uncle, the Prior of Ely, leases of abbey lands in the early days of the Reformation.
8 de mai. de 2022 · Cromwell's mother Elizabeth Steward was born in 1565 in Ely, in Cambridgeshire. She married Robert Cromwell, from Huntingdon, after her first husband and child died and had six daughters...
Ben Clatworthy. Monday May 09 2022, 12.01am, The Times. A painting that has spent years in a loft in St Albans may be the first genuine portrait of Oliver Cromwell’s mother, a historian has...
Oliver Cromwell ( Huntingdon, 25 de abril de 1599 – Palácio de Whitehall, 3 de setembro de 1658 ), foi um militar e líder político inglês e, mais tarde, Lorde Protetor. Nascido no seio da nobreza rural, os primeiros quarenta anos da sua vida são pouco conhecidos.
Title: Elizabeth Steward, Mother of Oliver Cromwell. Series/Portfolio: Portraits of characters illustrious in British History from the beginning of the reign of Henry the Eighth to the end of the reign of James the Second. Engraver: Charles Turner (British, Woodstock, Oxfordshire 1774–1857 London)
