Posted on 01/30/2024 4:22:36 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this anniversary date of King Charles I’s beheading, the two-years-dead corpse of the late Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell was hung in chains at Tyburn and then beheaded, along with the bodies of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton.
The great-great-grandnephew of ruthless Tudor pol Thomas Cromwell rose higher than any English commoner, high enough to be offered the very crown he had struck off at Whitehall. Oliver Cromwell declined it in sweeping Puritan rhetoric just as if he hadn’t spent weeks agonizing over whether to take it.
“I would not seek to set up that which Providence hath destroyed and laid in the dust, and I would not build Jericho again.”
The House of Stuart never could rebuild its Jericho while the Lord Protector ran the realm* — thirteen years, writes Macaulay, “during which England was, under various names and forms, really governed by the sword. Never, before that time, or since that time, was the civil power in our country subjected to military dictation.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
“Cromwell’s head...wasn’t finally buried until 1960.”
Oh my goodness! Is all that really true? I’m kind of surprised I never heard of any of this.
File under: more things in heaven and earth, Horatio
https://www.mylearning.org/stories/who-was-oliver-cromwell/1572
https://search.brave.com/search?q=was+oliver+cromwell+related+to+thomas+cromwell%3F&source=desktop
Summarizer:
Oliver Cromwell was not directly related to Thomas Cromwell, the 1st Earl of Essex, but he had a shared ancestory.1 Thomas Cromwell had a sister named Katherine who married a man named Morgan Williams, and they were Oliver Cromwell’s paternal great-great grandparents. They adopted the name Cromwell in recognition of the patronage of Thomas Cromwell.0 The line of Oliver Cromwell descends from Richard Williams (alias Cromwell), son of Thomas Cromwell’s sister Katherine and her husband Morgan Williams.2
Decapitating a very dead corpse is not an execution. It’s just desecrating a corpse. So, Oliver Cromwell was not executed on this date. That’s fake news.
My Irish ancestors suffered because of this murdering twit.
Same here.
I’d seen a few mentions of that too, but the link I attached seems to describe a more civil exchange after Sir Henry’s passing.
There are also accounts that differ on the timing of the return by decades.
Apparently fake news has been around for centuries.
Thank heavens the internet is finally here to provide us all with truth about everything. Soon AI will make things even truthier.
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