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Thomas Cromwell (/ ˈkrɒmwəl, - wɛl /; [1][a] 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.
3 days ago · Thomas Cromwell (born c. 1485, Putney, near London—died July 28, 1540, probably London) was the principal adviser (1532–40) to England’s Henry VIII, chiefly responsible for establishing the Reformation in England, for the dissolution of the monasteries, and for strengthening the royal administration. At the instigation of his enemies, he ...
Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, KG, PC (c. 1485 – 28 July 1540) was an English statesman and lawyer. He was King Henry VIII 's chief minister (like Prime Minister) from 1532 to 1540. He held many important posts, ending as Lord Chamberlain.
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 1533-55 CE), Cromwell masterminded the English Reformation which saw the Church in England break away from the Pope in Rome and such momentous ...
1 day ago · BBC/Nick Briggs. Thomas Cromwell was beheaded in July 1540 at the age of either 54 or 55. This unpleasant end came about following a series of miscalculations on his part and the devious ...
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.
The cardinal’s man. Thomas began his political career as one of Cardinal Wolsey’s servants in the 1520s. He was elected an MP to the House of Commons in 1523 and by the end of the decade he was publicly acknowledged as the cardinal’s man, as demonstrated in the bill of complaint addressed to ‘Master Cromwell of the Cardinal’s Counsell’.
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.
May 2, 2024 · Thomas Cromwell enjoyed a meteoric rise from the son of a Putney blacksmith to the chief minister of Henry VIII. A man of exceptional ability and with an enormous capacity for hard work, he dominated England’s political and religious life for a decade.
Sep 13, 2018 · Thomas Cromwell: the man who made modern England. A new biography promises to change our understanding of Tudor politics. A portrait of Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein the Younger (1532-33)...
