Thomas Cromwell

Anne had so far failed to produce a male heir and Cromwell aware that the King was growing impatient and had become enamoured of the young Jane Seymour acted with ruthless determination accusing Anne of adultery with several courtiers including her own brother Viscount Rochford. The records of the English Hospital in Rome indicate that he stayed there in June 1514 while documents in the Vatican Archives suggest that he was an agent for Archbishop of York Cardinal Christopher Bainbridge and handled English ecclesiastical issues before the Roman Rota. S.

Cromwell was one of the strongest advocates of the English Reformation. Supremacy over the Church of England was officially declared by Parliament in 1534 and Cromwell supervised the Church from the unique posts of vicegerent in spirituals and vicar general.  1485 – 28 July 1540) was an English lawyer and statesman who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII of England from 1532 to 1540.