Bridget Cromwell

1624–1662

Bridget Cromwell was born in 1624, the eldest daughter of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Bourchier to survive into adulthood. She grew up as her father’s political and military career accelerated during the English Civil War. In 1646 she married Henry Ireton, a senior Parliamentarian officer and close political ally of Cromwell.

Bridget Cromwell was Oliver Cromwell’s eldest surviving daughter and the wife first of Henry Ireton and later Charles Fleetwood. Bridget Cromwell was born in Huntingdon, England and died in England.

In Miranda Malins’ The Rebel Daughter, Nineteen-year-old Bridget Cromwell watches the Civil War transform her family as her father Oliver rises from local gentleman to one of Parliament’s most important cavalry commanders.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Bridget Cromwell (1 series)

The Puritan Princess in Order

by Miranda Malins 2 books 4.2(756)

Miranda Malins’s two Cromwell-family novels tell the story of Oliver Cromwell’s daughters across the English Civil War, Commonwealth and Protectorate. The Rebel Daughter follows Bridget Cromwell from 1643 through her marriages to Parliamentarian generals Henry Ireton and Charles Fleetwood, while The Puritan Princess turns to her younger sister…

All books in this series

1. The Rebel Daughter

First published 2022 · 4.2(150)

2. The Puritan Princess

First published 2020 · 4.2(606)