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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 ...
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 ...
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. Even before marrying Oliver Cromwell's daughter Bridget in 1646 he had become Cromwell's closest friend and confidant.
8 de jun. de 2018 · Ireton, Henry (1611–51). Ireton was plunged into the Civil War, since he was appointed by Parliament to command the horse at Nottingham two months before Charles I raised his standard in the same town. He fought at Edgehill and in the first battle of Newbury, where he was wounded and temporarily captured, and rapidly became one of Cromwell's ...
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.
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.
