(Roy Strong.The Burlington Magazine, Vol.
Whether this relative obscurity reflects lack of capacity or disinclination for office is not known. Teri is from Australia so may not have known, I’ll change it to east.DarstardlyDarcey, for infomation on Gregory’s decendants, the Complete Peerage is a good place to start (it’s pretty accurate)The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, vol. The Stafford knot is alternating with the mulberry sprig badge of the Mowbrays (the Howards of course inherited the Dukedom of Norfolk through the 1st Duke’s mother Margaret Mowbray, daughter of the 1st Duke of Norfolk of the earlier creation).The portrait of Norfolk certainly suggests to me that it must have been the then fashion to have heraldic designs incorporated as embroidered detail into shirts during this period.It is also noticeable that the lady in the NPG portrait has a prominent nose very similar in shape to Norfolk’s – and since Norfolk was her uncle this was probably therefore a Howard family physical trait. Besides it would have been strange for a married woman to have been dressed as a widow!Roy Strong first suggested that the sitter was Elizabeth Seymour in 1967 so it isn’t exactly a relatively recent identification! Thank you so much again Teri – this is a great debate! I think heraldry is a rather better way to identify the sitters in portraits than art historians’ speculation about physical resemblances, none of which is particularly compelling. Elizabeth became a widow again upon the death of Gregory Cromwell from And died my Lord Cromwell in Leicestershire and was buried with a standard, a banner of arms, and coat, helmet, sword, target, and escutcheons and herald.Gregory lies buried under a magnificent monument in the chapel at Launde.
Although as an uncle of Edward VI he might have expected a post at court, the only honour obtained by him in the reign was a knighthood of the Bath. At one time Either late in 1537 or in the following year Cromwell set up house at Lewes in the ex-Cluniac priory acquired by his father, but after the appointment of his father as constable of Leeds castle and the completion of certain repairs to the castle he moved there in 1539. In March 1536, Edward was made a gentleman of the privy chamber, and a few days later, he and his wife I am especially interested in Gregory’s date of birth because of the likelihood of one of various unknown sitters in surviving Holbein portraits being him. They had been dependants of Thomas Cromwell, with no home and little income of their own, and would have had to rely on the generosity of family and friends. Also known as Sir Robert Coker of Lydeard St Lawrence. Born in Digby, Greg served 25 years in the military, both in the Air Force and in the Army as a Field Engineer, retiring in 1992. The king was inclined to be generous and Elizabeth was included in the future queen Catherine Howard's household as one of her attendant ladies.On 18 December 1540, less than five months after his father's execution, Gregory Cromwell was created Baron Cromwell by letters patent, and summoned to Following the death of Henry VIII in 1547, Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley secretly married the late king's widow, At the coronation of King Edward VI, on 20 February 1547, Elizabeth's husband and her brother, Henry were invested as The latter portrait is of a man aetatis suae 28 in 1541, has a background similar to the Holbein of Gregory’s father Thomas, and has a pattern on the collar which may represent the Gromwell (or Cromwell) flower.
I suspect that Merriman and Gairdner (who didn’t have Vernon’s letters) only read Chekyng’s first letter to Cromwell and didn’t bother to read the next one referring to ‘little’ Gregory.
But for ordinary folks, twenty-one was the age in inheritance law and/or land ownership.There’s no way that Gregory was 21 in 1539. Gregory, born about 1520, was the only son of Thomas and Elizabeth Cromwell. Other grants of property followed from both Henry VIII and Edward VI.For the last ten years of his life Cromwell combined estate and shire administration with attendance in the Lords. Any info on the descendants? According to Keith Thomas, influential men could get their sons into parliament before the age of 21 to vote on crucial issues.Sorry, that reference should be Keith Thomas, “Age and Authority in Early Modern England,” Proceedings of the British Academy 62 (1976): p. 11Enjoyed this article – very interesting. This is very frustrating since I would like to be able to verify his age as either the earlier date of 1513/14 or the later one of 1519/20, one way or the other, in order to identify the possible portraiture.