Thomas Cromwell
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Renaissance
- Categories: Government and Politics, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Reformation, Christianity, Christians, Churches, Protestantism, Protestants
- Curriculum: British History, Renaissance History
Article abstract: During the 1530’s, one of the most crucial and turbulent decades in English history, the chief minister of Henry VIII was Thomas Cromwell, who helped bring about the king’s marriage to Anne Boleyn, the separation of the Church of England from Rome, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the establishment of Protestantism in England.
Early Life
Thomas Cromwell was born in Putney, probably in 1485, to Walter Cromwell, a blacksmith, brewer, armorer, and cloth merchant. Records of Thomas Cromwell’s youth are scanty, based mostly on...
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