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Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, KB (c. 1520 [1] [3] – 4 July 1551) [4] was an English nobleman. He was the only son of the Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell , 1st Earl of Essex ( c. 1485 – 1540) and Elizabeth Wyckes (d. 1529).
Henry Williams, alias Cromwell (born 1565) Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex (ca. 1485 – 1540) m. Elizabeth Wyckes (died 1529) Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (ca. 1520 – 1551) m. Elizabeth Seymour (ca. 1518 – 1568) Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell (1538–1592) m. Mary Paulet (ca. 1540 – 1592)
Baron Cromwell: [1] Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (c. 1520–1551) Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell (1538–1592) Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell (c. 1560–1607) Thomas Cromwell, 4th Baron Cromwell (1594–1653) (created 1st Viscount Lecale in 1624 and 1st Earl of Ardglass in 1645) Wingfield Cromwell, 5th Baron Cromwell (1624–1668)
On 18 December 1540, less than five months after his father's execution, Gregory Cromwell was created Baron Cromwell by letters patent, and summoned to Parliament as a peer of the realm. [102] [103] This title was a new creation, [104] rather than a restoration of his father's forfeited barony. [105]
Articles relating to the Cromwell family, 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.
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 was the third son of Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell and Elizabeth Seymour, sister to Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII. He was the grandson of statesman Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, chief minister to Henry VIII. [2] Born in around 1540, he was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where he matriculated in 1553.
In 2016 the young man was identified as Gregory Cromwell (c.1520–1551), son of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, chief minister to Henry VIII. References Buck, Stephanie; Sander, Jochen (2003).