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11 de abr. de 2015 · Cromwell was executed, without trial, for treason on the 28th July, 1540 – the same day that King Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. He was beheaded on Tower Hill and his severed ...
23 de feb. de 2023 · Cromwell was taken into the service of Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, around January 1524. In 1525, Cromwell began helping Wolsey to close or amalgamate under-performing monasteries and it seems he regarded this as a legal and business matter, not a religious one; the actions were to improve efficiency and wealth.
Thomas Cromwell, earl of Essex, (born c. 1485, Putney, near London, Eng.—died July 28, 1540, probably London), English politician and principal adviser (1532–40) to Henry VIII. He was a confidential adviser to Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey , before entering Parliament (1529), where his abilities attracted the king’s notice.
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.
His wife had died in 1527 or 1528, and in July 1529 he made his will, in which one of the chief beneficiaries was his nephew, Richard Williams, alias Cromwell, the great-grandfather of the protector. Wolsey's disgrace reduced Cromwell to such despair that Cavendish once found him in tears and at his prayers "which had been a strange sight in him afore."
21 de jun. de 2015 · Thomas Cromwell’s two known daughters, Anne and Grace, died from the fatal infectious fever called “the sweating sickness” that swept through England in 1528. However, in his History of the Lives and Actions of Thomas Cromwell , written c. 1761, Arthur Collins made a reference to Thomas Cromwell’s son Gregory “and a daughter Jane”.[1]
13 de ene. de 2019 · Derek Gatherer / The Conversation. In the first episode of BBC historical drama Wolf Hall, based on Hilary Mantel’s novel of the same name, Thomas Cromwell returns home to find his wife and two daughters have all died during the night, victims of a pestilence – the “sweating sickness” – that is scything through the Tudor world.
