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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).
The Cromwell family is an English aristocratic family. Aristocratic members of the family descend from Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, and Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector. The line of Oliver Cromwell descends from Richard Williams (alias Cromwell), son of Thomas Cromwell's sister Katherine and her husband Morgan Williams. Peerages and ...
Possibly Gregory Cromwell, circa 1535–1540, Hans Holbein the Younger. On 3 August 1537, Elizabeth married Gregory Cromwell at Mortlake. [66] [67] Edward Seymour, then Viscount Beauchamp wrote to Cromwell on 2 September 1537, to know how he has fared since the writer's departure. Wishes Cromwell were with him, when he should have had the best ...
Thomas Cromwell, Baron 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.
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)
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.
The title Earl of Ardglass (pronounced "Ar-glass") was created in the Peerage of Ireland on 15 April 1645. The Earl held the subsidiary titles of Baron Cromwell (Peerage of England, 18 December 1540) and Viscount Lecale (Peerage of Ireland, 22 November 1624).
Cromwell's father was a 'smith' (Chapuys) but a 'cloth shearer' (Pole, Bandello). Foxe clarifies the matter with the information that Cromwell 'was born in Putney or thereabouts, being a smith's son, whose mother married a shearman'. So the smith was Cromwell's natural father and the shearman (or shearer) was the step-father...