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Sir Richard Williams
b.Abt 1500 Llanisien, Glamorgan, Wales
d.20 Oct 1544 Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
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m. 1494
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m. 1518
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Sir Richard Williams ( – 20 October 1544), also known as Sir Richard Cromwell, was a Welsh soldier and courtier in the reign of Henry VIII who knighted him on 2 May 1540. He was a maternal nephew of Thomas Cromwell, profiting from the Dissolution of the Monasteries in which he took an active part. He was the patrilineal great-grandfather of Oliver Cromwell.
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