Sir Richard Williams (alias Cromwell)

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Sir Richard Williams, alias Cromwell (born by 1512 - 1545) was a Welsh soldier and a courtier in the court of Henry VIII. [1] He was a maternal nephew of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex and profited from the Dissolution of the Monasteries in which he took an active part.
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Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
An indication of the funeral pomp used at his interment can be found by the charges of the heralds, which were the same as those incurred at the burial of some of the greatest knights of his day.
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Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elizabeth Steward on 25 Apr 1599 in England. Elizabeth was born about 1564 in England; died in 1654 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William* Hampden. William* (son of Griffith* Hampden and Anne* Cave) was born on 5 Nov 1570 in Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England; died after 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was descended from Katherine Cromwell (born c. 1482), an elder sister of Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell (c. 1485?1540), a minister of Henry VIII, whose family acquired considerable wealth by taking over monastery property during the Reformation. Katherine was married to Morgan ap William, son of William ap Yevan of Wales. The family line continued through Richard Williams, alias Cromwell, (c. 1500?1544), Henry Williams, alias Cromwell, (c. 1524?6 January 1604),[8] then to Oliver's father Robert Cromwell (c. 1560?1617), who married Elizabeth Steward (c. 1564?1654) on the day of Oliver Cromwell's birth. Thomas thus was Oliver's great-great-great-uncle.[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell#Early_years

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Despite the high profile role of Colonel Hammond, his wife?s father played an even higher profile role. Mary was the daughter of Elizabeth Simeon and John Hampden, an early and much-celebrated leader of the rebellions that would bring down the Stuart king. As a parliamentarian, he fought skillfully in organizing his fellows against illegal taxes and forced loans imposed by Charles upon his subjects. In 1637, when his daughter Mary was perhaps 7 years old, he personally rose up against the hated ship-money tax (a levy originally intended to preserve England from an invading fleet, but which had been misused that year to raise money for the king?s personal causes), and though in this test case he would lose against the Crown, his defiance in court was seen as a moral victory. By 1643, after Parliament had taken over London and set about contesting King Charles for the rest of the country, John Hampden sought to use his tactical skills on the battlefield. At Chalgrove, he met his fate, and as Officer Jackson had after his last act of service, died from a mortal wound six days later at the nearby village of Thame.


John Hampden and Oliver Cromwell. First cousins ? zero generations removed.
John Hampden was the first cousin of Oliver Cromwell. Hampden?s early bravery inspired his Cambridgeshire cousin to the great fetes later that would propel him to the role of Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. John?s mother, Elizabeth, was the younger sister of Robert Cromwell of Huntingdon, who fathered Oliver. Both siblings were raised by Sir Henry Williams, better known by his alias of Cromwell, the family name of his grandmother. In his late 20s, he rose to greatness when he valiantly served King Henry VIII in suppressing the Pilgrimage of Grace, the pro-Catholic rebellion against the creation of a Protestant Church of England. The success of Henry and his father gave rise to the branch of the Cromwells that ultimately led to Oliver?s rise as Lord Protector.

http://benmangel.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-cromwell-ancestry-of-the-only-pasco-police-officer-to-die-in-the-line-of-duty/

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth* Simeon. Elizabeth* (daughter of Edmund* Symeon) was born about 1600. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]