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A devout puritan, Henry Ireton was an immediate parliamentarian activist rising to the rank of Commissary-General of the New Model Army. Ireton shared Oliver Cr...
A careful exploration of Henry Ireton’s role in the initial and subsequent campaigns in Ireland with a close look at the political relationship between Cromwell and Ireton. Keywords: Henry Ireton , Cromwell , New Model Army , Ormond , Drogheda , Wexford
Ireton, Henry. 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 ...
Henry Ireton was born in Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, in 1611. On the outbreak of the Civil War Ireton joined the Parliamentary army and fought at Edgehill (1642) and Naseby (1645). He also took part in the siege of Bristol. In 1646 Leveller supporters were elected from each regiment of the army to participate in the Putney Debates that began ...
The Remonstrance, drafted principally by Ireton in November 1648, marked the political conclusion of articulating Charles' guilt and equating him with those royalists who had already been executed. It is likely that Ireton believed Charles should die. Enacting this was, however, rather different.
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 ...
Learn about Henry Ireton , a prominent general and politician of the Parliamentarian faction during the English Civil War and the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell.
