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Hace 3 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.
- Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, Anne Cromwell, Grace Cromwell, Jane Cromwell
- Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex
Hace 1 día · Visitantes admiran el retrato de Karsh de Winston Churchill en la Galería Nacional Húngara. Quizá sea la foto más famosa jamás tomada de Winston Churchill, y la que desató la ira del primer ministro. Cuando Churchill se encontraba en Canadá en 1941, el fotógrafo Yousuf Karsh tuvo la oportunidad de retratar al estadista británico.
Hace 4 días · Thomas Cromwell is a good subject for fact and fiction. He was and remains somewhat of an enigma both as a visionary for government efficiency and as an ambitious ‘new man’ rising from the obscurity of a blacksmith’s son to perhaps the most powerful man in England save his king, Henry VIII.
Cromwell intended to incorporate the endowments into the king’s finances, while Anne objected to this secularisation of monastic assets. Things came to a head on April 2nd, 1536 when Anne’s distributor of alms, John Skip, gave a sermon that vilified Cromwell, comparing him to the biblical Haman, an evil vizier of King Ahasuerus from the Book of Esther.
Hace 3 días · I‘ll let my teenage daughter have the final word: when I rummaged through my memory to locate the spot in London where I first experienced that feeling, and realised that it was in fact on Putney Bridge, she saw my startled expression and announced dramatically that it wasn't my own past self I'd been haunted by, but the ghost of Thomas Cromwell 4.
Hace 5 días · Yet the grisly fate of two of the university’s chancellors, John Fisher and Thomas Cromwell, was a reminder that Cambridge was thoroughly entwined in affairs of state (p. 17). Law argues that the longstanding notion of ‘Lutheran Cambridge’ in the 1520s must be balanced against the powerful refutations of Lutheranism that also ...
Hace 3 días · James Frain portrayed Thomas Cromwell in The Tudors. Cromwell was a key advisor to Henry VIII and played a significant role in the English Reformation. Frain's portrayal showcased Cromwell's intelligence and political maneuvering.
