OLIVER CROMWELL – HERO OR VILLAIN? EARLY DAYSThanks for reading Major Gordon Corrigan's Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Oliver Cromwell was born on 25 April 1599 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. He was the third of ten children of Robert and Elizabeth Cromwell, and the only surviving son. As such Oliver was brought up as the focus for all the family’s hopes and ambitions, surrounded by a supportive network of his sisters. Robert Cromwell was a descendant of Thomas Cromwell who had been born in 1485. Thomas was of humble origins – his father was either a blacksmith, a brewer or in the cloth trade, depending which source one consults – but he was an intelligent young man who obtained a good education and was successively a soldier of fortune in France, a cloth merchant, a property speculator and a lawyer. It was in this latter capacity that he came to the attention of Cardinal Wolsey, King Henry VIII’s Chancellor, and he acted for him in the dissolution of the monasteries, being responsible for administering the process of their closure, the receipt of their funds and the pensioning off of their monks.
OLIVER CROMWELL - HERO OR VILLAIN? PART ONE
OLIVER CROMWELL - HERO OR VILLAIN? PART ONE
OLIVER CROMWELL - HERO OR VILLAIN? PART ONE
OLIVER CROMWELL – HERO OR VILLAIN? EARLY DAYSThanks for reading Major Gordon Corrigan's Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Oliver Cromwell was born on 25 April 1599 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. He was the third of ten children of Robert and Elizabeth Cromwell, and the only surviving son. As such Oliver was brought up as the focus for all the family’s hopes and ambitions, surrounded by a supportive network of his sisters. Robert Cromwell was a descendant of Thomas Cromwell who had been born in 1485. Thomas was of humble origins – his father was either a blacksmith, a brewer or in the cloth trade, depending which source one consults – but he was an intelligent young man who obtained a good education and was successively a soldier of fortune in France, a cloth merchant, a property speculator and a lawyer. It was in this latter capacity that he came to the attention of Cardinal Wolsey, King Henry VIII’s Chancellor, and he acted for him in the dissolution of the monasteries, being responsible for administering the process of their closure, the receipt of their funds and the pensioning off of their monks.