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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.
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in British history. He came to prominence during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, initially as a senior commander in the Parliamentarian army and latterly as a politician.
A rare letter written by Oliver Cromwell in 1648 will be sold at an online auction in Edinburgh. In the letter, Cromwell discusses intimate family affairs such as his son’s marriage and the fate ...
Thomas: lord Fauconberg: In 1657 he was a viscount, and married to Mary younger daughter of Oliver Cromwell. § 13: Charles: lord visc. Howard. in 1657 Cromwell bestowed upon him the title Baron Gilsland and Viscount Howard of Morpeth. § 14: Philip: lord viscount Lisle § 15: Sir Gilbert Pickering: bart, chamberlain of our household § 16 ...
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.
Sir Thomas Fairfax was selected as the new Lord General, with Cromwell as his Lieutenant-General and cavalry commander. After a short preliminary campaign, the New Model Army justified its existence, and "the rebels' new brutish general", as the king had called him, proved his capacity as commander-in-chief in the decisive Battle of Naseby (14 ...