Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of
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Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of (1518–1608). ‘Bess of Hardwick’ was one of the most remarkable women in Elizabethan England. The daughter of a Derbyshire squire, she gained wealth and status through four increasingly ambitious marriages, the last (in 1567) to George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury. Two alliances between their respective children created a dynastic structure. The Shrewsburys were given charge of Mary, queen of Scots (1569–84), but a daughter's marriage to
Darnley's younger brother (the union producing Arabella
Stuart) provoked Elizabeth I's displeasure. After the earl's death, Bess, intriguer, termagant, and by then the richest woman in the kingdom, was free to concentrate on her building and furnishing at
Chatsworth and
Hardwick Hall, and her extensive business concerns based on land and cash; her shrewdness, energy, and strength of purpose made her feared, but she could be generous and lavish. Two of her sons founded the dukedoms of Devonshire and Newcastle.
A. S. Hargreaves
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Hardwick reawakens.(Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, England)
Magazine article from: History Today; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...carrying Bess's initials -- ES, for Elizabeth of Shrewsbury -- and her coronet as a countess. Stupendously high windows, which...1601 inventory are still In place. Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, known to posterity as Bess of Hardwick...
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The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition.
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...to the throne during Queen Elizabeth's long reign, and still...political negotiations by Queen Elizabeth, Arbella spent most of her...grandmother, Bess of Hardwick (Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury), whose hard rule she disliked...
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The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart.
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...to the throne during Queen Elizabeth's long reign, and still...political negotiations by Queen Elizabeth, Arbella spent most of her...grandmother, Bess of Hardwick (Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury), whose hard rule she disliked...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/27/1995; 523 words
; Anniversaries Births: Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwicke), builder of country mansions, 1518; Jean Bernoulli, mathematician, 1667; Thomas Campbell, poet, 1777...
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antiques: Mining mania that left Victoria feeling blue; CHRISTOPHER PROUDLOVE ON THE CRAZE FOR BLUE JOHN.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 5/17/2008; 700+ words
; ...which, when polished, changes from a dull grey to a lustrous black. In 1580, Bess of Hardwick, Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, used Ashford marble to build a chimney piece in the great chamber at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire...
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Of Royalty and Loyalties
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/8/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Stuart and the earl and countess of Shrewsbury. Who? I hear you asking. George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his wife, Bess, were selected by Elizabeth Tudor to be hosts...sold." Elizabeth Shrewsbury has bootstrapped her...
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400 years on, this famous bess is to make a mighty comeback
Newspaper article from: Derby Evening Telegraph; 10/12/2007; ; 624 words
; ...to the county next year Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, better known as Bess of...woman in England during Elizabeth I's reign, began at the...married again in 1568. George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury. He died in 1590 and she...
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Hardwick Hall. (Derbyshire, England)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...November 1590, the old Countess of Shrewsbury decided to erect...this time to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, one of the richest...off to two of the Talbot children, thus assembling...off her daughter, Elizabeth, to Charles Stuart...
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A fine fisher of men John Adamson enjoys this Life of a clever player on the Tudor marriage market
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/4/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...times-married, Elizabeth Hardwick - "Bess...by marrying George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury: the Earl Marshal...Once installed as Countess of Shrewsbury, Bess not only zealously...married her daughter, Elizabeth Cavendish, to Charles...
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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)
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...13th, 1608, Bess, Countess of Shrewsbury, builder of the...inner circle of Queen Elizabeth (r. 1558-1603...relationship with Elizabeth I fluctuated over...England, George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, and the marriage...
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Elizabeth Talbot Shrewsbury, countess of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Elizabeth Talbot Shrewsbury, countess of shrō...in 1568 to George Talbot, 6th earl of Shrewsbury. The marriage (1574) of her daughter Elizabeth to Charles Stuart...angered Queen Elizabeth I because Stuart...
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Bess of Hardwick, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Bess of Hardwick, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury ( c. 1520–1608), daughter and coheir of...her care and to that of her husband, the 6th earl of Shrewsbury, Mary Queen of Scots was entrusted in 1569 at Tutbury...
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Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of (1518–1608...the last (in 1567) to George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury. Two alliances between their...producing Arabella Stuart ) provoked Elizabeth I's displeasure. After the...
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‘Bess of Hardwick’
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
‘Bess of Hardwick’. See Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of .
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Bess of Hardwick
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bess of Hardwick see Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of .
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