Danny Dyer Notices His Resemblance To Ancestor Thomas Cromwell | Who Do You Think You Are 

amazing resemblance

harriette2000 Everyone is related to royalty. 99% of Britons are descendants of Edward III and 100% of Europeans are directly related Charles I due to his excessive affairs and marriages leading to 18 children who all went on to have ten of their own etc. However, the reason that Danny Dyer’s bloodline is so extraordinary is the fact that he is also related to some of the greatest Brits in history, such as the Seymour and Cromwell family and also Louis XI of France and William the Conqueror.

@@jamessimpson6971 those sound like definitive stats their James.

@@jamessimpson6971 People say that but I do not believe it is true. My lines are all humble origins to the early 1600s so far.

@@jamessimpson6971 nah

Six Degrees of Separation absolutely applies to genealogy, but that doesn't make Danny Dyer's family history any less cool. It just makes everyone's history potentially amazing.

Hi, i also am decended from edward the 3rd -& the 4th a little further down the line so we're cousins many times removed or what ever you call it.were family

Susan Carroll do people seriously not know the difference lmao

@@fatemaq363 As a British dual citizen living in Canada, I have never heard of either

OldSoulMillennial Then you are sadly under educated.

Please remember that Richard Cromwell and Oliver Cromwell belong to the same family - they were collaterally related. Therefore Danny Dyer is also collaterally related to Oliver Cromwell.

@@MsBhappy Oliver Cromwell lead the armies of parlament against the king during the english civil war.

It’s more impressive to be a descendant of a famous person or something from the Victorian era because they have way less descendants than someone from medieval times. For example, being a descendant of Charles dickens is imo way more cool and exciting than being a descendant of one of the old kings

@@nayten0324 I agree. I'm descended from quite a few ancient kings - me and about a million other people ha ha. It comes with a few really neat stories, but I'd rather have Charles Dickens :)

It's strange how people on these comments who see it as not really a big deal, are the ones who have made an effort to search through hundreds of years of ancestry to find some form of nobility! Average generation is 25 and then your ancestor number doubles every generation, that's a lot of people.

@@cambs0181 Really, you seem to have your knickers in quite the knot there. tut tut. You are assuming I searched through hundreds of years to find some form of nobility? Whilst it is interesting to know the path of ones lines through time, not all is research. Many families, mine included, have always known. The Cromwell were the low men on the totem pole as far as nobility is concerned. Just because someone is renowned, it doesn't make him noble. Obviously, there are scores of people descended. I really don't know what point you are trying to make other than you think I need to be taken down a notch. LOL Did that brighten your day sweetheart?

I'm a descendant too, Thomas was my 15th great uncle.

Super intelligent and evil of course

Wolf hall classic anti catholic twaddle is she dead now 🤪

I love those books!

I’m on the third one!

It definitely is a delight, from my personal experience.

When Anne said "Let them eat cake"🍰 She was giving them the very best flour to eat,the cake flour.👑

@Bookshelf Anne said "let them eat cake." I met her and she said it

I'm descended to Edward iii through his son John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster....that's providing if the ancestry is correct.

Me too. Through both Elizabeth Marshall and the De Clare Earls of Hertford and also through Eva Marshall.

Your Dyer?

Those " Lords" came from " good families of the elite" while Cromwell had " wit" Yup that generates resentments from those who felt Cromwell did not " belong", as Cromwell is from a commoner descent.

Wolf hall is just anti catholic twaddle 🤣 fiction

He's a very poor actor!

No, but Danny Dyer is also descended from William the Conqueror

@@TopGunSGA most of us are descended from William the Conqueror. It's just a question of proving it. Nothing special about it at all

@@ds1868 It actually is special because Danny descends from Edward III in a direct, legitimate line. Most people are descendants of royal bastards or natural children of distant royal relatives.

@@ioannesimagiste200 well I'm a relative of oliver but surely a large percentage of the UK would be

Oliver Cromwell is a great grandfather of mine on my grandmas side of them family

haydens life then that would make us distantly related! What part of the world are you from?

We're all related, it's just a matter of going back through the lineage

I agree, GraphiqueJack.

Although Cromwell absolutely orchestrated the plot, and deserves the blame in that way, I’d say Henry also deserves a good deal of blame in that equation. I don’t think Cromwell would’ve done it without the kings permission. And tbh I think he was a good deal better in some ways than many of the other noblemen. He tried to do a lot for the common people, which is more than can be said for the rest of them

@@francesca9423I have a feeling Henry wanted another annulment, but Cromwell wanted Anne dead, both to make sure she couldn’t cause trouble for Henry, but also for himself. And let’s not forget that the main falling out Anne had with Cromwell was that he wanted the spoils from the monestaries to go to the king, his cronies, and himself. Anne actually wanted the money to go to hospitals, colleges and other civic institutions that could help the poor. I don’t see Cromwell as caring too much for the common man, sorry to say. If he was, he wouldn’t have orchestrated the downfall of a queen who actually was acting for the people.

@@graphiquejack a lot of academics disagree with you on that actually - Henry pushed for execution, he wanted her dead, not the other way around. Also Cromwell did want money to go to the king, yes, and there was corruption absolutely, but he also wanted monasteries to stay open as colleges, he didn’t want them all closed, and he also wanted money to go to social reform. The poor laws he had drafted do factor in the replacement of the social services the monasteries provided. His role in the dissolutions is much more complicated than the simple conceptualisation you described allows for. I could also bore you with a whole list of policies he implemented/tried to implement for the poor, and a lot of good he did/tried to do, but then this comment would get way too long. Like even the people he patronised/his court circle were made up of the ‘commonwealth men’ interested in social policies. It’s not his fault some of the more major changes he pushed for didn’t get through parliament. And his argument with Anne (although that was part of it) is more complicated than solely the issue of monastic funds. But yeah I wouldn’t say he cared for the common people, social reform, and education if there wasn’t plenty of evidence for it - even his contemporaries remarked on it, and lamented the loss of that after his death. none of the other ministers seemed to have cared as much

True, but knowing who a few of them are is better than knowing you have 32,000

This assumes a simplified model where there is no intermarriage between family lines and no shared ancestors due to common ancestry. In reality, due to intermarriage within communities and populations, many of your ancestors from different lines could be related to each other. In my case, especially as it gets to nobility, my families are certainly intertwined. My 12th and 15th great-grandparents were cousins.

No, they weren’t.

She was just as bad as he was both revolutionaries

Both wanted to steal church land and money which acted like the social security for the poor

The men weren’t hung, drawn and quartered - they were beheaded.

he orchestrated the charges, but I don’t think he would’ve done it if it wasn’t what Henry wanted

Looks more like me then anybody else

What an unfortunate comment.

How incredibly rude!

Someone jealous? Lol

@@hanz090 yep. You nailed it I'd say.

Danny dyer has more economic knowledge than you, just think about that