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Sir Richard Williams (c. 1510 – 20 October 1544), also known as Sir Richard Cromwell, was a Welsh soldier and courtier in the reign of Henry VIII who knighted him on 2 May 1540. [ 1 ] [ a ] He was a maternal nephew of Thomas Cromwell , profiting from the Dissolution of the Monasteries in which he took an active part.
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 ...
Probably by descent to the Cromwell-Bush family from Sir Richard Cromwell, nephew of Thomas Cromwell; first recorded in the family home, Cheshunt Park, Hertfordshire, by George Perfect Harding in the lifetime of Oliver Cromwell (1742–1821), who listed it as "Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Duchess of Suffolk"; labels formerly on the reverse ...
Richard Cromwell (1626–1712) was one of the sons of Oliver Cromwell, Protector of England. Richard Cromwell may also refer to: Sir Richard Williams (alias Cromwell) (1510–1544), also known as Sir Richard Cromwell, Welsh soldier and courtier, and nephew of Thomas Cromwell; Richard Cromwell (MP) (1572–1628), English MP for Huntingdon and ...
In 1540, Sir Richard Morrison (c. 1513 – 1556), an English humanist scholar and diplomat who was a protégé of Thomas Cromwell, propagandist for Henry VIII, and then ambassador to the German court of Charles V for Edward VI, dedicated his translation of Introductio ad sapientiam by Vives to Gregory Cromwell.
On 8 March 1538, Richard Williams (alias Cromwell), a nephew of Thomas Cromwell, had the grant of the nunnery of Hinchingbrooke, in Huntingdonshire, for the undervalued price of £19.9s.2d. while he was an official Visitor overseeing the dissolution of the monasteries. [3] A fireplace discovered in the building has his initials. [4]
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.
Frances (c.1520/1–c.1543), [16] who married Thomas Cromwell's nephew, Sir Richard Cromwell by 8 March 1534. [17] His last wife survived him and subsequently married, in 1524, Sir Thomas Denys [17] by whom she had a son, Sir Robert Denys. Sir Robert married Mary, daughter of William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy, by whom he had a son, Thomas Denys.