Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Ardglass
Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Ardglass (11 June 1594 - 1653) was an English nobleman, son of Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell of Oakham and second wife Frances Rugge, also known as Repps.
Life
He succeeded his father to the title of 4th Baron Cromwell of Oakham on 24 September 1607 and was created 1st Viscount Lecale, in Ulster, in the Peerage of Ireland, on 22 November 1624.
A supporter of King Charles I of England during the Civil War, he was his Commander of the Regiment of Horse (Ireland), and for his service he was created 1st Earl of Ardglass, in the Peerage of Ireland, on 15 April 1645. He subsequently made his peace with the Parliament by paying £460 for his "delinquency".
Marriage and issue
He married Elizabeth Meverell (d. 1651), daughter and heiress of Robert Meverell of Ilam, Staffordshire, and of Throwleigh, Staffordshire (d. 5 February 1627/1628) and Elizabeth Fleming, both buried at Blore, Staffordshire, the daughter of Sir Thomas Fleming, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and had three children:
- Lady Mary Cromwell (d. 8 April 1676), married as his first wife William FitzHerbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire (1624/1629 - 24 June 1697), who married secondly Anne Breton, widow of John Parker, of London, and daughter of Richard Breton, of Elmsthorpe, Leicestershire, without any male issue
- Wingfield Cromwell, 2nd Earl of Ardglass (12 September 1624 - 3 October 1668)
- Vere Essex Cromwell, 4th Earl of Ardglass (2 October 1625 - 26 November 1687)
- Hon. Oliver Cromwell
Both he and his wife both died in 1653 and were buried at Tickencote, Rutland, and his last will, dated 26 March 1653, was probated in 1661.
Sources
- G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, pages 192 and 193.
- Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1438.
- Leo van de Pas, A Genealogical History of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited and extinct peerages of the British Empire, London, 1866
- Sir Bernard Burke, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, London
- George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, London, 1983
- http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CROMWELL.htm#Thomas CROMWELL (1º E. Ardglass)
- http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index2009.htm#ARDGLASS_1645_1
- http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Cromwell1540.htm