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31 de may. de 2024 · Thomas Cromwell (/ ˈ k r ɒ m w əl,-w ɛ l /; c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.
25 de may. de 2024 · Born around 1485 to a working-class family in Putney, Cromwell rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most powerful men in England. He entered the service of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in the 1520s and, after Wolsey‘s fall from grace, managed to secure a position in the court of Henry VIII.
Hace 2 días · Cromwell moved his family from Ely to London in 1640. A second Parliament was called later the same year and became known as the Long Parliament. Cromwell was again returned as member for Cambridge.
12 de may. de 2024 · An exhibition about Oliver Cromwell's home town has raised the possibility he must have seen Mary, Queen of Scots' coffin as a school boy.
Hace 1 día · Oliver Cromwell: God's Warrior and the English Revolution. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ISBN: 9780333688960; 288pp.; Price: £60.00. Ian Gentles’ book (a welcome addition to the British History in Perspective Series edited by Jeremy Black) is the first new biography of Oliver Cromwell in many years.
1 de jun. de 2024 · Thomas Cromwell wrote a desperate letter from the Tower to the king to plead his innocence and appeal to him to be merciful to his son and the rest of his family. "Sir, upon [my kne]es I most humbly beseech your most gracious Majesty [to be goo]d and gracious lord to my poor son, the good and virtu[ous lady his] wife, and their poor children" [177] [181] [182]
1 de jun. de 2024 · For Capp, Cromwell’s religious legacy was in providing the opportunity for nonconformity to embed itself in British life (pp. 94, 110) – whether that was his intention or not.
