Resultado da Busca
Richard Cromwell was born on the 10/4/ of 10/4/, 10/4/. He was best known for being a Politician. Best known as the son of seventeenth-century political and military figure Oliver Cromwell, he followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming England’s Lord Protector in late 1658. An unpopular leader, he was forced out of office the following ...
Cromwell was away on campaign from the middle of 1649 until 1651, and the various factions in Parliament began to fight amongst themselves with the King gone as their "common cause". Cromwell tried to galvanise the Rump into setting dates for new elections, uniting the three kingdoms under one polity, and to put in place a broad-brush, tolerant national church.
Thomas Cromwell ( / ˈkrɒmwəl, - wɛl /; [1] [a] c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution. Cromwell was one of the most powerful proponents ...
Richard Williams (alias Cromwell) Sir Richard Williams ( c. 1510 – 20 October 1544), also known as Sir Richard Cromwell, was a Welsh soldier and courtier in the reign of Henry VIII who knighted him on 2 May 1540. [1] [a] He was a maternal nephew of Thomas Cromwell, profiting from the Dissolution of the Monasteries in which he took an active part.
A relapse followed, but he was able to continue to conduct official business until 28th August. A week later he was dead. Cromwell’s death came as a tremendous shock to supporters of the regime. As the secretary of state, John Thurloe, wrote to Oliver’s younger son, Henry: He died yesterday about four of the clocke in the afternoone.
After long negotiations, in May 1649 he married Dorothy, daughter of Richard Maijor, a Hampshire gentleman who had supported the parliamentary cause financially and administratively. Richard and his new wife lived with his in-laws at their seat at Hursley, not far from Winchester, and Richard became a Hampshire country gentleman, serving with his father-in-law as a JP for the county.
Richard Cromwell. Richard Cromwell (4 October 1626 – 12 July 1712) was the third son of Oliver Cromwell, and the second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, for little over eight months, from 3 September 1658 until 25 May 1659. Richard Cromwell's enemies called him Hickory Dick and Queen Dick . Richard Cromwell was not suited to ...
