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Há 4 dias · 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 ...
- Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, Anne Cromwell, Grace Cromwell, Jane Cromwell
- Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex
Há 4 dias · 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)
Há 3 dias · One of the things I love about Mantel’s writing is how the personal and the political is interwoven so deeply. This deeply moving moment of tenderness, where Cromwell remembers the naming of his daughter Grace, also tells us something about the customs of the time (naming children after royalty or close family) and about Cromwell’s personal faith and the type of father she is portraying ...
Há 5 dias · As the action begins, Cromwell has just had his envoy murdered in a coastal monastery. He sends Shardlake to find the killer and, in the process, to find evidence of monkish malfeasance that will ...
Há 5 dias · One who sees his value is the king's minister Thomas Cromwell – played by a domineering Sean Bean – a dangerous man who's busy stripping the assets of the Catholic church and claiming them for...
Há 2 dias · Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as " Bloody Mary " by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse ...
Há 8 horas · Set in the Tudor era, when monasteries faced a period of suppression, lawyer Matthew Shardlake is deployed by Thomas Cromwell to check up on the mysterious death of a commissioner in Scarnsea.
