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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.
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.
In the Cromwell arms "the pelican carried an evangelical message, yet it could also echo the main motif of the original Seymour family coat, birds' wings conjoined." [26] It is clear that this 21-year-old lady has close ties to both the Seymour and the Cromwell families: the angels and the fleurs-de-lis symbolise a Seymour-Cromwell marital ...
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 wrote a desperate letter from the tower to the king to plead his innocence and appealed to him to be merciful to his son and the rest of his family. Sir, upon [my kne]es I most humbly beseech your most gracious Majesty [to be goo]d and gracious lord to my poor son, the good and virtu[ous lady his] wife, and their poor children ...
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, ... Cromwell moved his family from Ely to London in 1640.
Portrait of a Lady, probably a Member of the Cromwell Family, perhaps Elizabeth Seymour, c.1535–1540, Hans Holbein the Younger [75] [76] In March 1537 Elizabeth, Lady Ughtred wrote to Thomas Cromwell from York to seek his favour in acquiring one of the soon-to-be dissolved monasteries. [77]
Elizabeth Cromwell is a character in Aphra Behn's 1681 comedic play, The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause. William Fisk depicted Elizabeth and her children supposedly begging Oliver Cromwell to spare the king's life, in his sentimental painting Cromwell's Family Interceding for the Life of Charles I (1840).