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13 de sept. de 2018 · Thomas Cromwell: A Life, by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 728 pages. Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe. Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend ...
12 de sept. de 2014 · Thomas Cromwell's career as Henry VIII's chief minister defined one of the most explosive decades in English history. Cromwell is credited with engineering the country's break with Rome, and of masterminding the downfall of Anne Boleyn, before following her to the block a few years later. Tracy Borman traces the highs and lows of Henry's tumultuous relationship with his ruthless fixer...
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. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, initially as a senior commander in the Parliamentarian army and latterly as a ...
14 de abr. de 2020 · Tracy Borman explores the downfall of Thomas Cromwell. By 1539–40 Cromwell was increasingly unwell and his political judgment faltered, giving his enemies the opportunity that they had lacked in his brief period of unrivalled power just a couple of years earlier. Cromwell made four terrible mistakes in his last year of life.
Thomas Cromwell (ur. ok. 1485 w Putney, zm. 28 lipca 1540 w Londynie ) – polityk, doradca i minister Henryka VIII . Został mianowany przez Henryka VIII wikariuszem generalnym Kościoła anglikańskiego , zarządził spis majątków kościelnych i na jego podstawie zostały rozwiązane klasztory.
Thomas Cromwell’s sister Katherine had married a Welsh lawyer, Morgan Williams. Their son Richard Williams went to live in the household of his uncle Thomas, becoming his protégé. Even after Thomas Cromwell fell from power, Richard continued to prosper at court, gaining a knighthood and lands in Huntingdonshire.
Definition. Thomas Cromwell (l. c. 1485-1540 CE) served as chief minister to Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE) from 1532 to 1540 CE. With his king and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer (in office 1533-55 CE), Cromwell masterminded the English Reformation which saw the Church in England break away from the Pope in Rome and such momentous acts as the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
