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Elizabeth Claypole (née Cromwell; 2 July 1629 – 6 August 1658) was the second daughter of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his wife, Elizabeth Cromwell, and reportedly interceded with her father for royalist prisoners.
Elizabeth Claypole, favourite daughter of Oliver Cromwell, is buried in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. A small stone marks her burial place to the north of the tomb grille of Henry VII.
Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits. This portrait. This allegorical, and posthumous, portrait shows her as Minerva, goddess of wisdom.
Only Oliver's favourite daughter Elizabeth Claypole, who died on 6th August 1658, still lies in the Abbey, as her vault was in a different part of the chapel and was not found at the time the others were being dis-interred.
There is no authenticated likeness in existence of Elizabeth Claypole, second daughter of Oliver Cromwell, who married, in 1646, John Claypole, although many portraits have acquired this identification.
The second daughter of Oliver Cromwell, and his favourite child, Elizabeth Claypole is supposed to have exercised a moderating influence on him. She married John Claypole, a leading Parliamentarian in 1646.
claypole, elizabeth, Was the second and favourite daughter of the protector, Oliver Cromwell. She was born at Huntingdon, in 1629, and in 1646 married John Claypole, Esq., of a respectable family in Northamptonshire; who afterwards became master of the horse both to Oliver and his son Richard.
