Thanks for that, Mika. English history is fascinating...and confusing! A creation indeed! And so many of the royals and nobles were given the same name. (I will not, will not mention the orange man...)
I only know of Thomas Cromwell from Wolf Hall.
I wonder which E of E hybridist Lloyd Zurbrigg had in mind?
We had a discussion about names here last year - some said the names don't matter ("a rose by any other name"), but I find the names to be a big part of the iris attraction for me. You can tell a bit about the hybridizer from the names they choose. Sometimes.
I have an ancestor, a many-times great-grandfather, Anthony Morton, who was Lord Brawley and a Sheriff of Nottingham. Of course, most of us know of the Sheriff from the Robin Hood tales - but I understand that it was mainly an honorary position, that changed every few years. I think that he was a Yorkist, and a Catholic. I always though I'd have more time and money to study our genealogy - when I got old! But...
