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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.
Richard Williams was born about 1510 [2] in the parish of Llanishen, Glamorganshire. [3] [4] He was the eldest son of Morgan (ap William) Williams, an aspiring Welsh lawyer [5] [6] (and a paternal descendant of Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, prince of Powys [7]), who was possibly the same Morgan Williams later recorded as a brewer at Putney, Greenwich and elsewhere. [1]
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.
Richard Cromwell (4 October 1626 – 12 July 1712) was an English statesman who served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1658 to 1659. He was the son of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. Following his father's death in 1658, Richard became Lord Protector, but he lacked authority.
He was the second son of Richard Whalley, who had been High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1595, by his second wife Frances Cromwell, an aunt of Oliver Cromwell. His great-grandfather was Richard Whalley (1499–1583), a prominent adherent of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and a Member of Parliament.
His grandfather, Morgan ap William, was the son of a man named William, and also used the name Williams, but his father abandoned the Welsh patronymic system completely and adopted the name of Cromwell, in honour of an uncle Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex. The family then consistently used and wrote its name as "Williams, alias Cromwell ...
Next on the royal family tree is Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, the first-born son of Prince Charles and his late wife, Diana, Princess of Wales. By virtue of his being male, from the moment ...
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).