how did oliver cromwel die?

Question

i am doin a project on him

Answer 1

Cromwell is thought to have suffered from malaria (probably first contracted while on campaign in Ireland) and from "stone", a common term for urinary/kidney infections. In 1658 he was struck by a sudden bout of malarial fever, followed directly by an attack of urinary/kidney symptoms. A Venetian physician tracked Cromwell's final illness, saying Cromwell's personal physicians were mismanaging his health, leading to a rapid decline and death, which was also hastened by the death of his favourite daughter Elizabeth Cromwell in August at age 29. He died at Whitehall on 3 September 1658, the anniversary of his great victories at Dunbar and Worcester.
He was succeeded as Lord Protector by his son Richard. Although Richard was not entirely without ability, he had no power base in either Parliament or the Army, and was forced to resign in the spring of 1659, bringing the Protectorate to an end. In the period immediately following his abdication, the head of the army, George Monck took power for less than a year, at which point, Parliament restored Charles II as king.
In 1661, Oliver Cromwell's body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey, and was subjected to the ritual of a posthumous execution. Symbolically, this took place on January 30; the same date that Charles I had been executed. His body was hung in chains at Tyburn. Finally, his disinterred body was thrown into a pit, while his severed head was displayed on a pole outside Westminster Abbey until 1685. Afterwards the head changed hands several times, before eventually being buried in the grounds of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1960.

Answer 2

In 1658, Cromwell convened an Upper House of Parliament in which his nominees sat as peers. Republicans regarded this as too similar to the House of Lords and MPs questioned the titles, rights and legitimacy of the Upper House. In exasperation, Cromwell rushed to Westminster on 4 February 1658 and dissolved the Second Protectorate Parliament. Over the next few months his health went into a sharp decline, particularly after the death from cancer of his favourite daughter, Elizabeth, in August.

During a bout of the recurring malarial fever that had afflicted him since the 1630s, Oliver Cromwell died at Whitehall on 3 September 1658 — the anniversary of his great military victories at Dunbar and Worcester. He nominated his eldest son Richard to succeed him, but the Protectorate had ended within a year of Oliver's death, to be followed by the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy.

Answer 3

In a full-length study published in 2000, an American academic, Professor H F McMains, argued that Cromwell was deliberately poisoned during summer 1658, initially with antimony, then during much of August with mercury, and then, when those failed to kill the intended victim, finished off with a massive dose of arsenic administered on 2 September. Professor McMains highlights some of the symptoms noted by obervers in summer 1658 (especially gastro-intestinal problems and the severe abdominal pains from which Cromwell intermittently suffered towards the end), the interludes of recovery and reasonable health which Cromwell enjoyed between the five bouts of illness, the speed with which the fifth and final bout took hold, leading to an unexpectedly quick death, the (deliberately?) vague and inconclusive nature of Bate’s autopsy report, together with vague or strange passages in some contemporary accounts and inconsistencies between them. He concludes that the evidence points, not to death from malaria or other natural causes (though he concedes malaria may have been present near the end), but to a deliberate, well-planned and ultimately successful plot to murder Cromwell by poisoning him. He suggests that Cromwell was poisoned by Bate, assisted by Thomas Clarges and the future bishops of London and Worcester. Most reviewers were not convinced by Professor McMains's arguments, noting that they involved stretching and moulding often weak and insecure evidence and that they rested upon a great deal of unproven speculation.

It is not inconceivable that Cromwell was poisoned – many wanted him dead, there were some rumours at the time, and other historians have sniffed around the poisoning possibility – but less dramatic and more plausible alternatives are available. By 1658 Cromwell was aged, weak and in declining health, since 1649 he had endured several bouts of recurrent fever, and many of the accounts of summer 1658 indicate that he was suffering from a return of this malarial-type recurrent fever or even explicitly link this attack with earlier visitations. Accordingly, most historians believe that Cromwell died from natural causes, killed by a particularly severe visitation of the malarial-type recurrent fever to which he had been prone since 1649.

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Answer 4

He died naturally, but his body was exhumed and Hung, Drawn and Quartered for treason when the monarchy was re-instated.

Funny how everyone knows of Thomas Cromwell but not so many people know that his son took over when he died, but wasn't very good at the job.........

Answer 5

Oliver Cromwell died 1658 (August) of cancer.

Answer 6

Of old age I believe

Answer 7

He died from malaria.In them days they did not have the medical info that we now have.

Answer 8

crashed his ferrari after being shot mu;tiple times by jermaine jackson

Answer 9

malaria, contracted in ireland of all places, and kidney infections

Answer 10

beaten to death by jade goody, for asking her to stop being a gobby fat cow.