Census • Person • Thomas Cromwell [1]
aka: 1st Earl of Essex
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1485 ca 1540, Jul 28
an English lawyer and statesman who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII of England from 1532 to 1540. Cromwell was one of the strongest and most powerful advocates of the English Reformation. He helped to engineer an annulment of the king's marriage to Queen Catherine of Aragon so that Henry could lawfully marry Anne Boleyn. Henry failed to obtain the Pope's approval for the annulment in 1534, so Parliament endorsed the king's claim to be Supreme Head of the Church of England, giving him the authority to annul his own marriage. Cromwell subsequently charted an evangelical and reformist course for the Church of England from the unique posts of vicegerent in spirituals and vicar-general.
06/10/1540 - Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister
Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell: Downfall and execution
06/29/1540 - English ex-chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic
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