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Thomas Cromwell
Sign in to saveAlso known as Thomas Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, Sir Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, 1st Earl of Essex Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, Baron Cromwell, Earl of Essex Thomas Cromwell
English statesman and politician (1485–1540)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1792
- Died
- 1870
- Works
- 20
Top works
- The druid, a tragedy in five acts
- Excursions in the county of Norfolk
- History and description of the Parish of Clerkenwell
- Honour
- Excursions in the county of Essex
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1993
Discography
- Burning Banners1997
- Black Chapter Red2016
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 30
- Total plays
- 69
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 160,608x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 76,915x
- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 57,338x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,598x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,720x
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Key facts
- Monarch
- Henry VIII
- Preceded by
- John de Vere
- Succeeded by
- Robert Radcliffe
- Born
- c. 1485 ( 1485 ) , Putney , Kingdom of England
- Died
- 28 July 1540 (1540-07-28) (aged 54–55), Tower Hill , London, Kingdom of England
- Cause of death
- Execution by beheading
- Resting place
- Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula , Tower of London, London, United Kingdom, 51°30′31″N 0°04′37″W / 51.508611°N 0.076944°W / 51.508611; -0.076944
- Spouse
- Elizabeth Wyckes
- Children
- Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell , Anne Cromwell, Grace Cromwell, Jane Cromwell (ill.)
- Relatives
- Cromwell family
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Cromwell,Thomas(1EEssex)01.jpg
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- Commons category
- Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex
- date of death
- 1540-07-28
- date of birth
- 1485-00-00
- name in native language
- Thomas Cromwell
- P12749
- Tank Man
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Article
Thomas Cromwell (/ˈkrɒmwəl, -wɛl/; c. 1485 – 28 July 1540) was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 until mid-1540, at which time he was beheaded on Henry's orders, a loss the King would later regret.
Cromwell was one of the most powerful proponents of the English Reformation. As the King's chief secretary, he instituted new administrative procedures that transformed the workings of government. He helped to engineer an annulment of the King's marriage to Catherine of Aragon so that Henry could lawfully marry Anne Boleyn. Henry had failed to obtain the approval of Pope Clement VII for the annulment in 1533, so Parliament endorsed the King's claim to be Supreme Head of the Church of England — thus giving him the authority to annul his own marriage. Cromwell subsequently charted an evangelical and reformist course for the new Church of England from his unique posts of Vicegerent in Spirituals and Vicar-general (the two titles refer to the same position).