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4 days ago · Thomas Cromwell was a powerful English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540. He played a key role in the English Reformation, the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, and the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
4 days ago · The key player for Elton was not Henry VIII, but rather his principal Secretary of State Thomas Cromwell. Elton downplays the prophetic spirit of the religious reformers in the theology of keen conviction, dismissing them as the meddlesome intrusions from fanatics and bigots.
2 days ago · Thomas Cromwell, by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1532-33. Source: Art Hive The very first uprisings started in early October 1536, in the town of Louth, Lincolnshire. This came to be known as the “Lincolnshire Rising,” and it would eventually develop into the Pilgrimage of Grace in t
5 days ago · Protestantism - Restoration, 1660-85: After the death of Cromwell, chaos threatened, and in the interest of order even some Puritans supported the restoration of Charles II as king. They hoped for a modified episcopal government, such as had been suggested in 1641 by the archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher (1581–1656).
1 day ago · Thomas Audley as Lord Chancellor. Thomas Audley, Baron Audley of Walden, was one of the preeminent servants of the English crown during the 1530s. Yet his name remains unknown compared to several of his close colleagues: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, St Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, and Richard Rich, Baron Rich of Leez.
4 days ago · Thomas Cromwell, at the time the most powerful of the King's advisors, brought forth Solicitor General Richard Rich to testify that More had, in his presence, denied that the King was the legitimate head of the Church.
2 days ago · When Henry VIII appointed Thomas Cromwell as Vicar-General, Cromwell used his knowledge of the Low Countries in which parish registers, documents certifying marriages, births, deaths, and bapstisms, were implemented to do the same for England. The idea was to have a parish for marriage, birth, death, and baptism.
