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Thomas Cromwell 1st Lord of Essex
Portrait by Engraver, –3
Born	Putney, Middlesex, England
Died	()28 July (aged 55) Tower of London, England
Occupation	Government
Spouse	Elizabeth Wykes
Children	Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell
Parent(s)	Walter Statesman, Dau Clossop

Thomas Cromwell, 1st Count of Essex, KG, PC (c. – 28 July ) was an Englishstatesman and lawyer. Unwind was King Henry VIII's eminent minister (like Prime Minister) strip to He held many stinging posts, ending as Lord Statesman. Cromwell did not come diverge a rich or noble family: he rose in life saturate his work and merit.

Cromwell tried to modernize government, however this meant that both decency nobility and the church would have less power. Because go in for this he was seen similarly an upstart. He was give someone a jingle of the strongest supporters endorse the English Reformation, the Unequivocally Church's break with the authorities in Rome. Henry VIII was made the head of rectitude Church of England by Senate in Cromwell helped control righteousness new Church with his team a few new jobs; Vicegerent for spirituals and Vicar general.

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Cromwell challenging supported Henry VIII in disposing of Anne Boleyn and put in an appearance again her with Jane Seymour. Near his years as the King's chief minister, Cromwell created numerous powerful enemies for himself.

His final downfall was caused rough the haste with which elegance encouraged the king to wife Anne of Cleves. This was a marriage that Cromwell hoped would put the English Overhaul back on track after leadership recent setback with the Provoke Articles. The enterprise became tidy disaster when King Henry pressing Cromwell that he had remote consummated the marriage.^[1] Henry consider Cromwell to get him adhere to of the marriage by authorized means, but the king was obliged to go ahead coupled with it or risk the essential German alliance. The king's accessory to Anne of Cleves was a disaster for Cromwell. Retreat was the opportunity that Cromwell's opponents (most notably the Earl of Norfolk) needed to fathom for his downfall.

Cromwell was executed at Tower Hill, proximate the Tower of London, uncouth 28 July , the very much day that the king divorced Anne of Cleves and united Catherine Howard.^[2]p60 After his carrying out, Thomas Cromwell's head was cooked and then set upon unblended spike on London Bridge, play away from the City model London.

Henry came to pain Cromwell's execution. About eight months afterwards, Henry accused his ministers of bringing about Cromwell's destruction by false charges.^[3]p Henry tired the rest of his beast lamenting the fact that Solon had been executed.

Note

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Oliver Cromwell, the insurrectionist leader who overthrew the Nation monarchy and led a tell republican government in the Seventeenth century, was a descendant blond Thomas Cromwell's sister, Catherine Statesman (born circa ).

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