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Dorothy Cromwell (née Maijor; c.1620 – 5 January 1675) was the wife of the second Lord Protector, Richard Cromwell, who succeeded to the post in 1659 following the death of his father, Oliver Cromwell.
En 1649, Cromwell se casó con Dorothy Maijor, hija de Richard Maijor, miembro de la nobleza de Hampshire. Él y su esposa se mudaron a la finca de Maijor en Hursley, Hampshire.
In 1649, Cromwell married Dorothy Maijor, daughter of Richard Maijor, a member of the Hampshire gentry. He and his wife then moved to Maijor's estate at Hursley in Hampshire. During the 1650s they had nine children, five of whom survived to adulthood.
The Cromwell family is 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.
After long negotiations, in May 1649 he married Dorothy, daughter of Richard Maijor, a Hampshire gentleman who had supported the parliamentary cause financially and administratively. Richard and his new wife lived with his in-laws at their seat at Hursley, not far from Winchester, and Richard became a Hampshire country gentleman, serving with ...
25 de abr. de 2024 · Dorothy Cromwell (née Maijor) (1627-1676), Wife of Richard Cromwell. Sitter in 1 portrait
2 de dic. de 2020 · Born in October 1626, very little is known about his childhood apart from his education at Felstead School in Essex. He then went on to become a member of Lincoln’s Inn and by 1649 he had entered into a successful marriage with Dorothy Maijor, whose family were part of the gentry.
