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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.
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 ...
He married, firstly, Christian Calverley, daughter of Sir George Calverley of Lea, Cheshire, by whom he had five sons: [3] William Hough (c. 1527 – 10 February 1585) married Jane Cromwell (died 1580), illegitimate daughter of Thomas Cromwell (c. 1485 – 1540) of London, with whom he had a daughter: [4]
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] Thomas Cromwell had another daughter, Jane (c. 1530/5 [19] – 1580 [20]) whose early life is a complete mystery.
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.
The six-part series will see Mark Rylance return to front the show as Thomas Cromwell, principal adviser to England’s Henry VIII. Back in 2016, Rylance won the leading actor Bafta for his ...
In Thomas Cromwell's family Strong identified two women who might have been around the right age to be the sitter: Frances Murfyn (c. 1520 – c. 1543), the wife of Sir Richard Cromwell, [17] and a lady of the highest social standing: Elizabeth Seymour (c. 1518 – 1568), who married, successively, Sir Anthony Ughtred (d. 1534), Gregory ...
Mark Rylance will reprise his role as Thomas Cromwell, whom he played in Wolf Hall‘s first season nearly nine years ago. Damian Lewis, Jonathan Pryce, Kate Phillips and Lilit Lesser are also ...