Person:Katherine Cromwell (1)

Catherine Cromwell
d.1517 England
  1. Catherine CromwellAbt 1475 - 1517
  2. Thomas CromwellAbt 1485 - 1540
m. 1494
  1. Walter Williams1497 - 1531
  2. Sir Richard WilliamsAbt 1500 - 1544
Facts and Events
Name[1] Catherine Cromwell
Alt Name Katherine Cromwell
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] Abt 1475 Putney, Surrey, England
Marriage 1494 Putney, Surrey, Englandto Morgan Williams
Death[1] 1517 England

It was in Putney Church, in the year 1494, that Katherine Cromwell, then a young lady about eighteen years of age, was married to a young man of Welsh extraction named Morgan Williams. From the issue of this marriage sprang in the fourth generation, the renowned LORD PROTECTOR OF ENGLAND, OLIVER CROMWELL.

Her brother was Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to King Henry VIII of England from 1532 to 1540, when he was executed on Tower Hill.

References
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  2. Catherine Cromwell, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.