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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 23 July 2021. Lovell, Mary S. (2005). Bess of Hardwick, First Lady of Chatsworth...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

house has been the country seat of several prominent families including the St Loes, one of whom married Bess of Hardwick. They lived at Sutton Court and...

deliver the jewels to Bess of Hardwick, Arbella's other grandmother. If Arbella were to die the jewels were to be given to James VI of Scotland. Despite the...

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...

develop it as a spa in the style of Bath. Their ancestor Bess of Hardwick had brought one of her four husbands, the Earl of Shrewsbury, to "take the waters"...

metals. Bess of Hardwick bought red silk, gold, and silver thread for making "bone lace" in 1549, the earliest English reference to this kind of work. Today...

Elizabeth Hardwick may refer to: Bess of Hardwick (1527–1608), Elizabethan courtier Elizabeth Hardwick (writer) (1916–2007), American literary critic,...