Bess of Hardwick: in the 400th anniversary of her death, the prominent Elizabethan is the focus of events in her native Derbyshire and elsewhere.(FRONTLINE)(In memoriam)

History Today | February 1, 2008| | Copyright

When she breathed her last, between 5pm and 6pm on the evening of February 13th, 1608, Bess, Countess of Shrewsbury, builder of the magnificent Chatsworth and Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, and prominent player in the machinations of the Elizabethan court, was probably the richest woman in England. 'I especially will and require that my funeral be not over sumptuous, or otherwise performed with too much vain and idle charge' she had written in her will, nevertheless she left the princely sum of 3,000 [pounds sterling] to spend on the occasion, which took place the following ...

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