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4 days ago · Henry Ireton (baptised 3 November 1611; [1] died 26 November 1651) was an English general in the Parliamentarian army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He died of disease outside Limerick in November 1651.
3 days ago · Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France. After Charles I's execution at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War, the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649.
1 day ago · The perceived corruption of Parliament made it, like the king, a target of reform. Initiative was now in the hands of the king and the army, and Charles I tried to entice Cromwell and Henry Ireton, the army’s leading strategist, to bargain his restoration
Jun 15, 2024 · The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649–1653) was a pivotal chapter in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, involving the re-conquest of Ireland by the forces of the English Parliament, led by Oliver Cromwell. This campaign aimed to consolidate English control over Ireland following the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the subsequent Irish ...
Jun 30, 2024 · Gibson in his Prize Essay on Highgate, published in the same year as Prickett's volume, says that Henry Ireton was elected a governor and trustee of the Cholmeley foundation (the grammar school), but that he was expelled the trust.
Jun 9, 2024 · The man of the moment then, the master revolutionary, is his son in law, Henry Ireton. Ireton was done with the king. Salus populi suprema Lex and all that, Cicero, Paker, Locke – the safety of the people is supreme; and no one was safe with this king.
Jun 23, 2024 · It was probably Ireton that inspired Pride’s Purge. Ireton it was also that drove the development of the constitutional proposal that followed, forged in the Whitehall Debates – the Agreement of the People. That would have to wait though, because more immediate questions were at hand.
