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Elizabeth Wyckes, (also Wykys, or Wykes) (d. 1529) was the wife of Thomas Cromwell (1485 – 28 July 1540), Earl of Essex, and chief minister to Henry VIII of England.She was daughter to Henry Wyckes, a well-to-do clothier from Chertsey, and his wife Mercy, who married Sir John Pryor after Wyckes' death.
Thomas Cromwell (/ ˈ k r ɒ m w əl,-w ɛ l /; [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.
Thomas Cromwell's wife died early in 1529, [1] and his daughters, Anne and Grace, are believed to have died not long after their mother. Provisions made for Anne and Grace in Thomas Cromwell's will, written on 12 July 1529, have been crossed out at a later date. [17] [18]
By 1527, the well-travelled Cromwell had returned to England and was now a lawyer, a married father of three, and highly respected as the right-hand man of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, with a reputation for successful deal-making. His life takes a tragic turn when his wife and two daughters abruptly die of the sweating sickness, leaving him a ...
It did not spread to Scotland, though it did reach Ireland where Lord Chancellor Hugh Inge, who died on 3 August 1528, was the most prominent victim. [27] Mortality was very high in London; Henry VIII broke up the court and left London, frequently changing his residence. In 1529 Thomas Cromwell lost his
In 2008, his wife, Amy Yasbeck, spoke to TODAY about a separate wrongful death lawsuit she and her family had filed against two doctors: one who treated Ritter the night he died and one who ...
Elizabeth died in 1665 and was survived by five of her nine children, as well as many grandchildren. Robert Cromwell (baptised 13 October 1621– May 1639), [22] died while away at school. Oliver Cromwell (baptised 6 February 1623 [b] – 1644), who became a cornet in Lord St. John's troop in the army of the Earl of Essex, and died of smallpox ...
Mary Jane Thomas, wife of country singer-songwriter Hank Williams Jr., died on March 22 in Jupiter of a collapsed lung that was accidentally punctured one day earlier during surgery at the Jupiter ...