*Ø* Blogmanac July 28 1540 | King Henry VIII has Thomas Cromwell beheaded
1540 King Henry VIII of England beheaded Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, and married Catherine Howard.
The first Cromwell to lead an English revolution, Thomas was born the son of a blacksmith at Putney, London, in 1485, who had saved money and become a brewer, or else a fuller.
Thomas got a fair education, went to Europe, mastering several languages. He became a merchant then a soldier, and served in Italy. In England he became a lawyer and soon attracted the attention of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who made him his solicitor. In 1523 he was elected to the House of Commons and in two years Wolsey employed him as his chief agent in the period of violence and repression of Roman Catholics, the dissolution of the monasteries. In this period, monastery land was seized and sold off cheaply to nobles and the newly emerging merchant class. On Wolsey's fall he accompanied him in his retirement to Esher, but soon returned to court.
Cromwell made his way into royal favour, by being advocate for the king in the break with Rome. Soon he became the main adviser to the crown, but the Catholic party hated him. He raised rapidly to wealth and honours – and the estates of dissolved monasteries contributed to his wealth. He was actively involved in Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves; when the king was disappointed in her he took his anger out on Cromwell. Archbishop Cranmer pleaded for him in vain, but Cromwell was executed in the Tower of London for high treason. A nephew of Thomas Cromwell inherited the estates, and was the great-grandfather of Oliver Cromwell, the famous ‘Protector’.
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1540 King Henry VIII of England beheaded Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, and married Catherine Howard.
The first Cromwell to lead an English revolution, Thomas was born the son of a blacksmith at Putney, London, in 1485, who had saved money and become a brewer, or else a fuller.
Thomas got a fair education, went to Europe, mastering several languages. He became a merchant then a soldier, and served in Italy. In England he became a lawyer and soon attracted the attention of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who made him his solicitor. In 1523 he was elected to the House of Commons and in two years Wolsey employed him as his chief agent in the period of violence and repression of Roman Catholics, the dissolution of the monasteries. In this period, monastery land was seized and sold off cheaply to nobles and the newly emerging merchant class. On Wolsey's fall he accompanied him in his retirement to Esher, but soon returned to court.
Cromwell made his way into royal favour, by being advocate for the king in the break with Rome. Soon he became the main adviser to the crown, but the Catholic party hated him. He raised rapidly to wealth and honours – and the estates of dissolved monasteries contributed to his wealth. He was actively involved in Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves; when the king was disappointed in her he took his anger out on Cromwell. Archbishop Cranmer pleaded for him in vain, but Cromwell was executed in the Tower of London for high treason. A nephew of Thomas Cromwell inherited the estates, and was the great-grandfather of Oliver Cromwell, the famous ‘Protector’.
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