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Hace 1 día · 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.. Cromwell was one of the most powerful proponents of the English Reformation, and the creator of true ...
Hace 4 días · The second of the two essays on Cromwell’s physical ‘legacy’ is an examination by Peter Gaunt of his impact on the rural and urban environment of Britain. We could not ask for a surer guide than Professor Gaunt, whose The Cromwellian Gazetteer (1987) provides the basis for much of what we know about where Cromwell was when.
Hace 3 días · It was an Augustinian Friary, often shortened to ‘Austin Friars’, founded by Henry III’s Constable, a returning crusader called Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford. It was likely established in the 1260s occupying a small area but over time, as their wealth grew, they expanded to a precinct of around 5.5 acres.
Hace 3 días · Sir Henry Cromwell’s wife Elizabeth was the daughter of Sir Edward Lucy and widow of Sir John Ferrars, Knight Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Elizabeth I and James I. She married Sir Henry after the death of his second wife in 1629. Marriages among the country gentry as much as the greater nobility were as much dynastic as personal and she ...
Hace 2 días · Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon on 25 April 1599 – 425 years ago this year. He lived in the town for over half his life and went to school in the building which is now the Cromwell Museum. The Museum’s new exhibit, opening on 4 May, looks at what Huntingdon was like at that time, and the impact that it had on its most famous resident.
Hace 18 horas · Lawyer and statesman Thomas Cromwell served as chief minister to Henry VIII from 1532 to 1540 and has gone down in history as one of the most corrupt and manipulative people ever to hold power in ...
Hace 1 día · e. The House of Plantagenet [a] ( /plænˈtædʒənət/ plan-TAJ-ə-nət) was a royal house which originated in the French County of Anjou. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins, who were also counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and the ...
