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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.
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 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.
Over 2,000 soldiers of Cromwell's New Model Army were killed at Limerick, and Henry Ireton, Cromwell's son-in-law, died of plague. Ireton's first siege, October 1650 [ edit ] By 1650, the Irish Confederates and their English Royalist allies had been driven out of eastern Ireland by the Cromwell's conquest of Ireland.
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.
