Posted on 01/30/2024 4:22:36 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
“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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