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May 14, 2020 · The Real Reason Henry VIII Executed Thomas Cromwell. Wikimedia Commons. By A. C. Grimes / May 14, 2020 5:59 pm EST. In 1540, Henry VIII gave his primary advisor, Thomas Cromwell, the axe. Well, technically the executioner gave him the axe, but the point still holds.
May 22, 2020 · Thomas Cromwell (l. c. 1485-1540 CE) served as chief minister to Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE) from 1532 to 1540 CE. With his king and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer (in office...
Mar 2, 2020 · How much do you know about Thomas Cromwell? As Henry VIII's chief minister, he became one of the most powerful men in England – but little is known about his origins. Here, historian Tracy Borman answers all the questions you need to know – from his meteoric rise to his spectacular fall from favour…
A man of exceptional ability and with an enormous capacity for hard work, Cromwell dominated England's political and religious life for a decade. He ruthlessly dispatched those who stood against him and his royal master, notably his rival Thomas More and Henry’s notorious second wife Anne Boleyn.
Apr 4, 2015 · By Jim Dwyer. April 4, 2015. SUDDENLY, after 500 years of infamy and obscurity, here comes Thomas Cromwell: blacksmith’s boy, petty thief, visionary bureaucrat, shrewd banker, mercenary soldier...
Sep 12, 2014 · Thomas Cromwell's career as Henry VIII's chief minister defined one of the most explosive decades in English history. Cromwell is credited with engineering the country's break with Rome, and of masterminding the downfall of Anne Boleyn, before following her to the block a few years later.
Thomas Cromwell was an English statesman and adviser to Henry VIII, responsible for drafting the legislation that formalised England's religious and political break with Rome during the 1530s.
