Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Thomas Cromwell across 5 places, from 1485 to 1528.
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Thomas Cromwell (– 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.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Thomas Cromwell was documented, and when
1485year
Putneyattested“Thomas Cromwell is thought to have been born by or around 1485 in Putney, then a village in Surrey providing a ferry service across the Thames upstream from London.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
1485year
Thamesattested“Thomas Cromwell is thought to have been born by or around 1485 in Putney, then a village in Surrey providing a ferry service across the Thames upstream from London.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
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Surreyattested“Thomas Cromwell is thought to have been born by or around 1485 in Putney, then a village in Surrey providing a ferry service across the Thames upstream from London.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
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Londonattested“Thomas Cromwell is thought to have been born by or around 1485 in Putney, then a village in Surrey providing a ferry service across the Thames upstream from London.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
1528 to 1529period
Oxfordattested“Cromwell assisted in the dissolution of nearly thirty monasteries to raise funds for Wolsey to found The King's School, Ipswich (1528), and Cardinal College, in Oxford (1529).”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
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Italymentioned“The tradition that he quickly became a mercenary and marched with the French army to Italy, where in 1503 he fought in the Battle of Garigliano, stems from a novella by the contemporary Italian writer Matteo Bandello in which Cromwell is…”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
1505year
Chestermentioned“William Hough was the son of Richard Hough (1505–1574) who was Cromwell's agent in Chester from 1534 to 1540.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
June 1514month
Vatican Secret Archivesmentioned“At some point Cromwell returned to Italy: the records of the English Hospital in Rome indicate that he stayed there in June 1514, while documents in the Vatican Archives suggest that he was an agent for the Archbishop of York, Cardinal C…”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
June 1514month
Italymentioned“At some point Cromwell returned to Italy: the records of the English Hospital in Rome indicate that he stayed there in June 1514, while documents in the Vatican Archives suggest that he was an agent for the Archbishop of York, Cardinal C…”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
June 1514month
Romementioned“At some point Cromwell returned to Italy: the records of the English Hospital in Rome indicate that he stayed there in June 1514, while documents in the Vatican Archives suggest that he was an agent for the Archbishop of York, Cardinal C…”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
1515year
Englandmentioned“At one point during these years, Cromwell returned to England, where around 1515 he married Elizabeth Wyckes (d.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
1517 to 1518period
Romementioned“In 1517–1518, he travelled to Rome again, this time to gain Pope Leo X's approval for plenary indulgences to be sold by the St Mary's Guild, Boston as part of a thriving trade.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
1520year
Londonmentioned“By 1520, Cromwell was firmly established in London mercantile and legal circles.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
1523year
House of Commons of the United Kingdommentioned“In 1523, he obtained a seat in the House of Commons as a burgess, though the constituency he represented has not been identified with certainty.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
1523year
Cumberlandmentioned“For a short while early in 1523 Cromwell became an adviser to Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, drafting a parliamentary bill to relieve his sponsor of taxation on some property in Cumberland.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
1529year
House of Commons of the United Kingdommentioned“Cromwell favoured the assertion of royal supremacy over the recalcitrant Church, and he manipulated support in the House of Commons for the measure by resurrecting anti-clerical grievances, the "supplication against the ordinaries" expre…”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
14 April 1532exact date
Welsh Marchesmentioned“The King's gratitude to Cromwell was expressed in a grant of the lordship of the manor of Romney in the Welsh Marches (recently confiscated from the family of the executed Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham) and appointment to three…”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
25 January 1533exact date
Calaismentioned“Henry and Anne married on 25 January 1533, after a secret marriage on 14 November 1532 that may have taken place in Calais.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
4 February 1533exact date
Romementioned“The parliamentary session began on 4 February 1533, and Cromwell introduced a new bill restricting the right to make appeals to Rome, reasserting the long-standing contention that England was an "empire" and thus not subject to external…”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Cromwell
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