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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. Peerages and ...
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 provided a more extensive education for his own son, Gregory. Thomas and Elizabeth had three surviving children – a son, Gregory, and two daughters, Anne and Grace. Thomas Cromwell's wife died early in 1529, [1] and his daughters, Anne and Grace, are believed to have died not long after their mother. Provisions made for Anne ...
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 death of the queen would have disastrous consequences for Thomas Cromwell. The couple's first child, Henry was born in 1538, [71] [72] shortly before their arrival at Lewes Priory in Sussex, recently acquired by Thomas Cromwell, [79] where they resided until early 1539. [80]
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 ...
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]
The couple went on to welcome two more children together, sons Stephen in 1946 and Carey in 1949, before separating in January 1953 and divorcing in 1954, per the San Bernardino County Sun.