Ireton, Henry

Ireton, Henry
died Nov. 28, 1651, Limerick, County Limerick, Ire.

English politician, leader of the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil Wars.

Joining the Parliamentary army at the outbreak of war, he was involved in many victories. He was elected to Parliament in 1645 and married Oliver Cromwell's daughter in 1646. In 1647 he proposed a scheme for a constitutional monarchy; after its rejection by Charles I, Ireton provided the ideological foundations for the assault on the monarchy. He helped bring Charles to trial and was one of the signers of his death warrant. As lord deputy of Ireland and commander in chief (1650), he fought against the Roman Catholic rebels and died after the siege of Limerick.

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▪ British statesman
born 1611, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, Eng.
died Nov. 28, 1651, Limerick, County Limerick, Ire.
 English soldier and statesman, a leader of the Parliamentary cause during the Civil Wars (English Civil Wars) between the Royalists and Parliamentarians.

      At the outbreak of the Civil War, Ireton joined the Parliamentary army. In November 1642 he commanded a cavalry force in the indecisive Battle of Edgehill, Worcestershire. The following year he met and befriended Oliver Cromwell, then a colonel in the army of eastern England. Cromwell appointed Ireton deputy governor of the Isle of Ely in 1644, and Ireton fought at the Parliamentary victories at Marston Moor, Yorkshire (July 1644), and Naseby, Northamptonshire (June 1645). In the summer of 1646 he married Cromwell's eldest daughter, Bridget.

      Although Ireton's military record was distinguished, he earned his fame in politics. Elected to Parliament in 1645, he looked on while a conflict developed between the Independents in the army and the Presbyterians who controlled the House of Commons. In 1647 Ireton presented his “Heads of the Proposals,” a constitutional scheme calling for division of political power among army, Parliament, and king and advocating religious tolerance for Anglicans and Puritans. These proposals for a constitutional monarchy were rejected by the king. At the same time they were attacked by the Levelers, a group that called for manhood suffrage and an unfettered liberty of conscience in matters of religion.

      Ireton then turned against the king. When the Independents in the army triumphed over Parliament during the second phase of the Civil War, his “Remonstrance of the Army” provided the ideological foundation for the assault on the monarchy. He helped to bring Charles to trial and was one of the signatories of the king's death warrant. From 1649 to 1651 Ireton prosecuted the government's cause against Roman Catholic rebels in Ireland, becoming lord deputy of Ireland and acting commander in chief in 1650. He died after the siege of Limerick.

Additional Reading
Robert William Ramsey, Henry Ireton (1949).

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