Countess of Shrewsbury (née Hardwick; c. 1521  – 13 February 1608), known as Bess of Hardwick, of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, was a notable figure of Elizabethan...

1597 for Bess of Hardwick, it was designed by the architect Robert Smythson, an exponent of the Renaissance style. Hardwick Hall is one of the earliest...

November 1553 – 4 April 1617) was an English landowner. He was a son of Bess of Hardwick and William Cavendish (1505–1557). After Eton and Cambridge, Charles...

acres of meadow. Woodland pasture half a league long and three furlongs broad. TRE worth forty shillings now twenty shillings. Bess of Hardwick built...

Elizabeth Talbot (Bess of Hardwick), as well as his surviving collection of written work. Talbot was the only son of Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury and...

the daughter of Bess of Hardwick and her second husband Sir William Cavendish. Catherine Grey was one of her godmothers. Bess was a Lady of the Bedchamber...

William Cavendish was the second son of Sir William Cavendish and Bess of Hardwick. Following his father's death and his mother's remarriage to Sir William...

dispatch from Bess of Hardwick to Lord Burghley, dated 21 September 1592. Bess recounts Morley's service to Arbella over "the space of three years and...

Katherine in the Tower of London, where Edward Seymour (Lord Hertford) was sent to join her on his return to England. Bess of Hardwick was also imprisoned...

the husband of Bess of Hardwick, who had persuaded him to sell his property in Suffolk and settle in her native county. Bess began to build the new house...

three children, none of whom survived. She died after giving birth to a stillborn daughter in 1546. In 1547, he married Bess of Hardwick. He sold his property...

advantage of the dissolution of the Monasteries. He married (1547) as his third wife the famous Bess of Hardwick, with whom he had eight children. One of their...

Derbyshire, home of Bess of Hardwick Hardwick Hall, County Durham Hardwick Hall Country Park Hardwick, County Durham Hardwick, Lincolnshire Hardwick, Monmouthshire...

a year old, and his wife Bess of Hardwick. Mary inherited her mother's strong will and colourful character. Bess of Hardwick remarried to Sir William...

Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, England, made by Mary, Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick, during the period of Mary's captivity in England. The hangings were made...

Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, also known as Bess of Hardwick; and George Talbot, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury. According to Gregory, "The Other Queen...

biographies of Beryl Markham, Amelia Earhart, Jane Digby, Richard Francis Burton, Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, the Mitford Girls, Bess of Hardwick and the Churchills...

younger Bess of Hardwick's second husband. It was probably she who pursuaded Sir William to sell his lands in the south of England, around the manor of Cavendish...

starring role in Mistress of Hardwick, a 10-part BBC series broadcast in 1972, which followed the life of Bess of Hardwick. Most of the episodes are now lost...

Bess of Hardwick. The building has been completely demolished. The manor at Sutton Scarsdale was earlier called "Caldecotes" and "Oldcotes". Bess of Hardwick...

Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1527–1608), known as "Bess of Hardwick". A Knight of the Shire for Derbyshire, he offered military service to Queen...

husband of Bess of Hardwick, his second wife. His official positions included Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, Chief Butler of England and Member of Parliament...

H. B. Taylor, 'Bess of Hardwick's Picture Collection', Hardwick Hall (Yale, 2016), pp. 75-6. David A. H. B. Taylor, 'Bess of Hardwick's Picture Collection'...

mentioned in Sir William St Loe's accounts 1559–60 (Mary S. Lovell, Bess of Hardwick, Empire Builder 2005:144, note 3). Austin, Thomas Austin, Two fifteenth-century...

worked for Bess of Hardwick, used blue bice in 1596. Ian Bristow, a historian of paint, concluded that the pigment blue bice found in records of British...

Queen of England, also known as "Good Queen Bess" Bess of Hardwick (1527–1608), daughter of John Hardwick of Hardwicke Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire...

bobbin woven lace was made of silver and gold Venice thread to trim the beds of Henry VIII and James V of Scotland. Bess of Hardwick had a canopy bed with...

Chan responded that "if John Wayne can play Genghis Khan, I can play Bess of Hardwick" and remarked that "art should reflect life now." Chan appeared in...

and younger sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy). She was also directly descended from Bess of Hardwick, a notable figure of Elizabethan English...

Cavendish by his wife Bess of Hardwick, and thus elder brother of William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire. The family seat of Doveridge Hall was demolished...