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The army's position, written by Ireton, emerged as the Solemn Engagement of 5 June 1647. Like most of the significant documents which emerged from the army in the period before Charles' execution, the Solemn Engagement was principally the work of Ireton, in consultation with others. The imagery employed by Walker in his portrait hints at Ireton ...
On 15 May 1660 the Convention Parliament ordered that justice be meted out on the regicides Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, John Bradshaw and Thomas Pride. For a Parliament that had welcomed monarchy back to England there was nothing surprising about initiating revenge against those who had committed the act that had led to eleven years of republican rule. What was different of course was that ...
Henry Ireton was seen as Oliver Cromwell’s ‘second self’. 1 The two men, bound by religion and kin, were regarded as a unit. Leveller and royalist portrayals of a Machiavellian Ireton manipulating Cromwell are overplayed, but Ireton was, after God, among the most important influences on Cromwell. 2 Ireton and Cromwell had been close since first meeting in 1643, as fellow Puritan officers ...
Ireton, Henry (1611–51), soldier and lord deputy of Ireland, was the eldest son in the resolutely puritan gentry family of German and Jane Ireton of Attenborough, near Nottingham. Baptised on 3 November 1611, he was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, graduating in 1629, and proceeded to the Middle Temple before returning to his country estate.
Henry Ireton was the brain trust, the "alpha and omega" of the New Model Army, as John Lilburne labeled him. He was also the engine driving forward the revolutionary events in England between 1647 and 1649.
Siege of Limerick (1650–1651) Coordinates: 52.669722°N 8.625556°W. Siege of Limerick. Part of the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland. Henry Ireton. The English Parliamentarian commander who besieged Limerick in 1651. Date. 19 June – 27 October 1651 [1] [2] Location.
Henry Ireton. (1611-1651), Parliamentary general. Sitter associated with 17 portraits. A leading Parliamentarian and an austere Puritan, Ireton was one of Cromwell's ablest supporters, noted for his powers of leadership and for his political integrity. He married Bridget, Cromwell's daughter, in 1646.
