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Contents. hide. (Top) Life. Death and legacy. References. Bridget Cromwell (1624 – June 1662) was Oliver Cromwell 's eldest daughter. She married General Henry Ireton and after he died, General Charles Fleetwood . Life. She was born to Elizabeth (born Bouchier) and Oliver Cromwell in 1624.
Learn about the life and family of Oliver Cromwell, the English military and political leader who became Lord Protector of England. Find out how he met and married Elizabeth Bourchier, and who were their nine children.
Bridget Cromwell was the eldest daughter of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. She married twice, first to Henry Ireton, a soldier and her father's supporter, and then to Charles Fleetwood, who helped govern England after Oliver's death.
The Cromwell family is an English aristocratic family descended from Hugh de Cromwell who came to England with William the Conqueror. Its most famous members are: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex; and, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector.
- Burial and Disinterment
- Cromwell Family
- St Margaret's Churchyard Memorial
- Elizabeth Claypole
Cromwell died at Whitehall on 3rd September 1658. His body was embalmed and taken privately to Somerset House on 20 September. The public lying in state began on 18 October until 10 November. He was then buried privately without ceremony, according to contemporary sources, in a vault at the east end of Henry VII's chapel in the Abbey on the night o...
By Royal Warrant of 9th September 1661 the bodies of Oliver's mother Elizabeth, who had died on 18th November 1654, and his sister Jane(wife of Major General John Desborough), who died in 1656, together with other regicides who had been interred in the Abbey since 1641, were also removed but this time the bodies were thrown in a pit in the churchya...
A modern incised inscription records all the names of those re-buried in the churchyard, including Henry, Elizabeth and Jane, on the base of the tower near the west entrance of St Margaret's. The others are: Robert Blake, Denis Bond, Nicholas Boscawen, Mary Bradshaw, Sir William Constable, Richard Deane, Isaac Dorislaus, Anne Fleetwood, Thomas Hesi...
Only Oliver's favourite daughter Elizabeth Claypole, who died on 6th August 1658, still lies in the Abbey, as her vault was in a different part of the chapel and was not found at the time the others were being dis-interred. A small modern stone marks her grave to the north of Henry VII's monument. A photograph of the Cromwell stone and regicides ta...
- Soldier,Politician
Bridget Cromwell (born 1624) was Sir Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector's eldest daughter and the eldest of his children to survive into full adulthood. Almost nothing is known of her life until 1646, when she married Henry Ireton, senior parliamentarian officer and close confidant of Oliver.
A woman fighting for her future... Ely, 1643. England is convulsed by Civil War, setting King against Parliament and neighbour against neighbour. As the turmoil reaches her family home in Ely, 19-year-old Bridget Cromwell finds herself at the heart of the conflict.
- Miranda Malins
