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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.
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 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]
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 ...
In Thomas Cromwell's family Strong identified two women who might have been around the right age to be the sitter: Frances Murfyn (c. 1520 – c. 1543), the wife of Sir Richard Cromwell, [17] and a lady of the highest social standing: Elizabeth Seymour (c. 1518 – 1568), who married, successively, Sir Anthony Ughtred (d. 1534), Gregory ...
In May 2015, more than 100 descendants of enslaved families participated in a tree-planting ceremony to commemorate the new buildings. And today, Hemings' room is being restored for eventual ...
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]