Title 2nd Baron Cromwell Name Henry 2nd | Nationality English Tenure 1551-1592 | |
Resting place Launde Abbey Chapel52°37′52″N 0°49′23″W / 52.631111°N 0.823056°W / 52.631111; -0.823056 Parents Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell Children Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell Grandparents Thomas Cromwell, Elizabeth Wyckes | ||
Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell of Oakham (before 21 May 1538 – 20 November 1592) was an English peer. He was the eldest son and heir of Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell of Oakham and Elizabeth Seymour, daughter to John Seymour of Wolf Hall, Wiltshire and Margery Wentworth, sister to Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII.
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Family and early life
Henry Cromwell was born in Lewes, Sussex in 1538 in the former Cluniac Priory of St. Pancras, that had been acquired by his grandfather Thomas Cromwell.
Cromwell's mother, Elizabeth married three times. She married firstly, in 1531, Anthony Ughtred, governor of Jersey, by whom she had two children:
In 1537, three years after death of Anthony Ughtred in October 1534, she married Gregory Cromwell, the son of Thomas Cromwell and 1st Baron Cromwell. The couple had three sons and two daughters:
Gregory Cromwell died suddenly of the sweating sickness on 4 July 1551 leaving his heir, Henry, a minor at thirteen years of age. His widow went on to marry, in 1554, as her third and last husband, John Paulet, lord St John (later 2nd Marquess of Winchester). She died 19 March 1568, and was buried 5 April at Basing, Hampshire.
Henry Cromwell was educated at St. John's College Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1553. He may have been admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 7 March 1557.
Peerage
Henry's grandfather, Thomas Cromwell, had been created Baron Cromwell of Wimbledon and Earl of Essex as a reward for his service as chief minister to Henry VIII, but he had lost those titles by attainder in June 1540. On 18 December 1540, his son Gregory was created 1st Baron Cromwell of Oakham. This title was a new creation rather than a restoration of his father's forfeited barony. Henry succeeded his father as the second Baron Cromwell under that creation. A minor at his father's premature death, he was first summoned to Parliament in 1563
Marriage and issue
Cromwell married, before 1560, Mary Paulet, (c. 1540 – 10 October 1592), the daughter of his stepfather John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester and his first wife Elizabeth Willoughby, and by her had issue:
Death
Cromwell's wife, Mary died at North Elmham, Norfolk, 10 October 1592, and was buried, on 23 October, at Launde Abbey Leicestershire. He died shortly after his wife, on 20 November at North Elmham, Norfolk, 1592 and was buried, on 4 December, in the chapel at Launde Abbey, Launde, Leicestershire.