Resultado de búsqueda
Hace 3 días · Naseby. Langport. Preston. Siege of Drogheda. Sack of Wexford. First Siege of Waterford. Dunbar. Worcester. Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles.
Hace 4 días · 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.
Hace 3 días · My own position has been to depict Cromwell’s political landscape as balanced between the good constable and ‘the divinely chosen and providentially endorsed instrument’. Or again, ‘Cromwell could, and indeed had to weigh the secular arguments which humans had to rely on when God’s guidance is not clear or was withheld’.
Hace 5 días · In 1533 he became Solicitor-General and was knighted, when he took a leading part with Thomas Cromwell in the persecution of those accused of violating the Act of Succession of 1534, which declared Elizabeth to be heir to the throne and Katharine's marriage unlawful.
Hace 5 días · 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.
Hace 3 días · One of his daughters married Sir Andrew Judde (Lord Mayor 1550–1), another married Sir Robert Cromwell, and was great-grandmother of the Protector and of John Hampden. 1509. Sir James Yarford.
Hace 4 días · Sir Oliver Cromwell was made Recorder of the borough in 1596, and here was born on 25 April 1599 his famous nephew Oliver Cromwell the Protector, who was educated at St. John's Grammar School. He married and settled in the borough (which he represented in the Parliament of 1628) until 1631, when he sold his property here and went to St. Ives and then to Ely.
