When was Cromwell executed?
Thomas Cromwell
Cromwell declared to Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer that he had been a "ruffian… in his young days".[5]  As a youth, he left his family in Putney, and crossed the Channel to the continent.  Accounts of his activities in France, Italy and the Low Countries are sketchy and contradictory.  It is alleged[8] that he first became a mercenary, and marched with the French army to Italy, where he fought in the battle of Garigliano on 28 December 1503.  While in Italy, he entered service in the household of the Florentine banker Francesco Frescobaldi.[8]