Oct 21, 2018 - He’s the man who killed a king.Oliver Cromwell, the English Puritan turned military dictator, is today most famous for signing the death warrant that led to Charles I’s bloody execution in 1649.
Over a hundred years before the American and French Revolutions shook the globe, this smalltime farmer from the British sticks proved with steel that the divine right of kings was not so holy after all.
The only thing I ever learned about him before was from this Monty Python song
https://youtu.be/dBPf6P332uM?si=BWjw_NfGAHY5sRwh
“Perfidious Albion”, aka “Why The Brits Have Always Been Cowardly Punks”
Mmm Hmm
Last gasp of the Papists, pyhrric as well.
Long Live Lord Protector Cromwell, and his Instrument of Government, which was really the prototype of our Constitution, the first one that England had, and now seems to have forgotten. Maybe too unpleasant for all those Papal Restorationists...
Found out my ancestors had a run-in with Cromwell. He took out the family castle:
“Nunney Castle continued to be owned by the Roman Catholic Prater family into the 17th century.[25] In 1642 the English Civil War broke out between the rival factions of Parliament and the king; like many Catholics, Colonel Richard Prater supported Charles I.[25] As the war progressed the Royalist situation deteriorated, however, and the south-west became one of the few remaining Royalist strongholds; Nunney Castle was garrisoned in anticipation of Parliamentary attack and took in a number of refugees, including many Catholics.[25][26] In September 1645 a Parliamentary army under the command of Lord Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell advanced into Somerset, taking Sherborne, Cary and Shepton Mallet before turning to Nunney”. Colonel Prater was great….great…?…?…Uncle.
More reading here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunney_Castle
1640’s was also the decade another Prater stowed away on a ship to Elizabeth Citee (Newport News), Va and got 5 years of indentured servitude to the captain for his trouble.
Stupid publicity stunt.........
If you read about the trial of Charles I, you’ll see similarities with the organization and proceedings of the January 6th Committee.
Very interesting, if creepy. I never knew this before!
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.