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Henry Ireton. Henry Ireton (baptised 3 November 1611; [1] died 26 November 1651) was an English general in the Parliamentarian army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He died of disease outside Limerick in November 1651.
- 1642–1651
- Bridget Cromwell (1646-his death)
Mar 14, 2024 · Henry Ireton (born 1611, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died Nov. 28, 1651, Limerick, County Limerick, Ire.) was an English soldier and statesman, a leader of the Parliamentary cause during the Civil Wars between the Royalists and Parliamentarians. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Ireton joined the Parliamentary army.
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Henry Ireton. Henry Ireton, Parliamentary official and son in law of Oliver Cromwell, was buried in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey in 1652. However after the Restoration of Charles II to the throne the House of Commons voted on 4th December 1660 that Ireton's remains, with those of Cromwell and Judge Bradshaw, should be exhumed and the ...
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Henry Ireton was born in 1611 in Nottinghamshire into a family of minor gentry. He studied at Cambridge University and in 1630, when the English Civil War began he raised a troop of cavalry and ...
Jan 17, 2022 · Henry Ireton, 1611-1651. Cromwell’s right-hand man in his dealings with the Levellers and the leading architect of the King’s trial and execution. Cool, taciturn and intellectual in contrast to Cromwell’s passion and emotion. Henry Ireton was born at Attenborough, near Nottingham, the eldest of five sons of a minor country gentleman.
Jun 8, 2018 · Ireton, Henry (1611–51). Ireton was plunged into the Civil War, since he was appointed by Parliament to command the horse at Nottingham two months before Charles I raised his standard in the same town. He fought at Edgehill and in the first battle of Newbury, where he was wounded and temporarily captured, and rapidly became one of Cromwell's ...
Howard Shaw introduces Henry Ireton, Cromwell's son-in-law, a regicide, and a man with principles and temper of a Cassius, who “stuck at nothing.”. On Saturday, January 30th, 1661, the twelfth anniversary of the execution of Charles I, the disinterred bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, and John Bradshaw were drawn on hurdles from ...
