Thomas Cromwell was a self-made lawyer who served first Cardinal Wolsey and then Henry VIII. His time with Wolsey served him well in his work for the king after the cardinal’s fall from power in 1529. Cromwell’s time in office from 1530 until his execution in 1540 was one of the mos...
Thomas Cromwell saw to it that Erasmus received his income. The shrewd political operator may have thought it wise to keep the aged scholar in good humor lest he should rouse European opinion on the subject of More's execution. Thus, the intellectual who was expected to say more, was ...
Cromwell (ˈkrɒmwəl; -wɛl) n 1.(Biography)Oliver.1599–1658, English general and statesman. A convinced Puritan, he was an effective leader of the parliamentary army in the Civil War. After the execution of Charles I he quelled the Royalists in Scotland and Ireland, and becam...
他甚至利用酷刑对待曾经的朋友和支持者安妮·博林,导致她被处决。 英国纪录片《亨利八世的执行官:托马斯·克伦威尔的沉浮Henry VIII’s Enforcer: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell 2013》 Thomas Cromwell has gone down in history as one of the most corrupt and manipulative ruffians ever to hold power...
Cromwell outlasted both Anne and Catherine, whodiedof natural causes just months before Anne’s execution. But his victory proved short-lived. Four years later, Cromwell followed his ally-turned-enemy to the Tower of London. He wasbeheadedon July 28, 15...
Thomas Cromwell has gone down in history as one of the most corrupt and manipulative ruffians ever to hold power in England. A chief minister who used his position to smash the Roman Catholic church in England and loot the monasteries for his own gain. A man who used torture to bring abo...
Did Jane Seymour have any significance, why did King Henry and Thomas Cromwell get into a public shouting match at a dinner party, and just how easy was it to convince Henry to remove his wife for good? The answers lie not in what evidence remains of court life in early 1536, but in...
The day before “the Lieutenant of the Tower writ to the Lord Cromwell, that it was not fit to publish the time of her execution” (Smeeton 46). In order to preserve the solemnity of the occasion this was granted. It was also reported that Anne requested “that she might be executed ...
Cranmer’s enemies – and there were many, whether inspired by envy or doctrinal disagreement – had several opportunities to destroy him. For instance, when Anne’s replacement Jane Seymour died in childbirth, the Protestant cause very nearly hit the buffers due to Cromwell’s arrangement of a...
One of the ways she does this is through Thomas Wyatt, a diplomat and poet who had been associated with Anne Boleyn, but escaped execution largely because Cromwell liked and admired him. On pages 412-414 of the book, Mantel writes persuasively about the connection between the skills of the...