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Elizabeth Cromwell is a character in Aphra Behn 's 1681 comedic play, The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause. William Fisk depicted Elizabeth and her children supposedly begging Oliver Cromwell to spare the king's life, in his sentimental painting Cromwell's Family Interceding for the Life of Charles I (1840).
Elizabeth Seymour was born about 1518, probably at Wulfhall. [5][6][15] Her letters to Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII show that she was both intelligent and astute. [34][35][36] She was also skilled in needlework. [37] She played a brief but prominent role in the 1530s and 1540s, during the rise to power of her father-in-law, Thomas Cromwell ...
Cromwell family. 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. The line of Oliver Cromwell descends from Richard Williams (alias Cromwell), son of ...
Dec 5, 2014 · Elizabeth Cromwell 1598-1665. Cromwell Museum. Eldest child of Sir James Bourchier and his wife Frances. Very little is known of Elizabeth's childhood, but her father was a prosperous businessman ...
August 6, 1658); Mary Cromwell (1636–1712), countess of Fauconberg; Frances Cromwell (1638–1721), also known as Lady Rich, later known as Lady Russell. The plump and pretty Elizabeth Cromwell, wife of the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, endured a great deal of mockery from the scandalmongers and satirists. They called her Protectress Joan ...
Jan 10, 2001 · Staged as a dialogue “between the ghost of this grand traytor and tyrant Oliver Cromwell, and sir reverence my Lady Joan his wife” (1), Andrews situates Elizabeth as a prophetic intermediary between Cromwell’s ghost — who, Samson-like, has now “become house-keeper in Hell” (16) — and Richard and Henry, Elizabeth’s sons. Cromwell ...
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Jul 2, 2023 · Elizabeth Claypole, (née Cromwell; 2 July 1629 – 6 August 1658) was the second daughter of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his wife, Elizabeth Cromwell, and reportedly interceded with her father for royalist prisoners. After Cromwell created a peerage for her husband, John Claypole ...
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