GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON-
2198
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-2377)
Name
Thomas Cromwell
Title
Earl
Gender
Male
Lived
b. ca. 1485-03-25 d. 1540-07-28 (old)
Linked Sermons
Christus passus est pro nobis
(autograph: Yes )
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Source of Data
ODNB (Article: 6769); History of Parliament Online (see link below); Hannah Yip.
Biographical Sources Consulted
ODNB (Article: 6769); History of Parliament Online (see link below).
Other note
Thomas Cromwell was born c. 1485 in Putney. He was the principal adviser to Henry VIII, and played a large part in establishing the English Reformation. He was accused of heresy and treason on 10 June 1540. Condemned without a trial, he was executed on Tower Hill on 28 July 1540. For more information about Cromwell, see Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cromwell: A Life (London: Allen Lane, 2018).
Attached URL
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/cromwell-thoma… History of Parliament Online biography for Thomas Cromwell.
GEMMS record created
March 26, 2019
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024