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The Cromwell family is an English aristocratic family descended from Hugh de Cromwell who came to England with William the Conqueror. Its most famous members are: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex; and, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector.
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No man rises so high as he who knows not whither he goes. Cromwell on becoming Lord Protector, as recorded in the memoirs of Cardinal de Retz Oliver Cromwell was an army commander in two English civil wars, signed the death sentence for King Charles I, and became Lord Protector of England, Ireland and Scotland. This biography focuses on his family,...
Alleged Mistresses: After the Restoration a couple of accusations were made that Cromwell had affairs with ladies besides his wife. He is alleged to have been the lover of Elizabeth Murray, Countes...
Title: The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3846/3846-h/3846-h.htmJohn Morrill, ‘Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2015 accessed 23 May 2017. This is a subscription site but a...British Civil War Project: Biography of Oliver Cromwell http://bcw-project.org/biography/oliver-cromwell- Male
- September 3, 1658
- Elizabeth (Bourchier) Cromwell
Apr 26, 2022 · Genealogy for Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
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- "Oliverus Cromwell", "Old Ironsides"
- Elizabeth Cleveland, {Fictional}
- September 3, 1658
Learn how to trace your descent from Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, through his direct and collateral lines. Find published genealogies, records and sources to confirm or refute your Cromwellian ancestry.
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was born in Huntingdon on 25th April 1599. He was the second son of Robert Cromwell (d.1617) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Steward of Ely.
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The family's estate derived from Oliver's great-great-grandfather Morgan ap William, a brewer from Glamorgan who settled at Putney and married Katherine Cromwell (born 1482), the sister of Thomas Cromwell, who would become the famous chief minister to Henry VIII.
A chronological listing of all events, births, deaths and marriages that occur on these pages, from 1485-1939. Statistics. Details of the number of entries on these pages. Descendancy List (pdf) Full list of descendants presented graphically. Male entries are in blue, female in red.
