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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).
Possibly Gregory Cromwell, circa 1535–1540, Hans Holbein the Younger. On 3 August 1537, Elizabeth married Gregory Cromwell at Mortlake. [66] [67] Edward Seymour, then Viscount Beauchamp wrote to Cromwell on 2 September 1537, to know how he has fared since the writer's departure. Wishes Cromwell were with him, when he should have had the best ...
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 ...
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.
The Tudor myth is a particular tradition in English history, historiography, and literature that presents the period of the 15th century, including the Wars of the Roses, as a dark age of anarchy and bloodshed, and sees the Tudor period of the 16th century as a golden age of peace, law, order, and prosperity.
The site and possessions of Lewes Priory were granted to Henry VIII's vicar-general, Thomas Cromwell, who passed Lewes Priory to his son, Gregory Cromwell. Sussex did not do too badly compared to the rest of the country, as it only had one person in 500 who was a member of a religious order, compared to the national average of one in 256. [42]
Thomas Cromwell (c. 1540 – c. 1611) [1] was an English Member of Parliament during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.His diaries of proceedings in the House of Commons are an important source for historians of parliamentary history during the period when he was a member, and Sir John Neale draws heavily upon them in his ground-breaking two-volume study of Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments (1953 ...
The lady is now thought to be a member of the Cromwell family, perhaps Elizabeth Seymour (c.1518–1568), sister of Henry VIII’s third wife, Jane Seymour, and wife of Thomas Cromwell’s son, Gregory. Elizabeth Seymour served three of the king's wives: Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard.