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(Abt 1521 - Abt 13 Feb 1608)
[[Category:This Day In History February 13]] [[Category: 16th Century]] } } } ---- ==Bess of Hardwick== : Bess was married four times. She had eight children by her second husband, William Cavendish. Her last marriage to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury ended in separation due to the stress of housing Mary, Queen of Scots. But Talbot died in 1590, and she became the Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury.[[[Wikipedia: Bess of Hardwick]]] ===Titles=== * Countess of Shrewsbury[4th husband's right] * Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury * Lady of the Bedchamber ===Vitals=== : Elizabeth "Bess" of Hardwick : b. c.1521[Consolidated Coningsby.GED 11 Mar 2011.] ===Early Life=== : p. John Hardwick and ____[Cavendish, Sir Charles (1553-1617), of Welbeck Abbey, Notts. www[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/cavendish-sir-charles-1553-1617 historyofparliamentonline.org]] : m.3 1559 Sir William St Loe (1518–1565)[Alias: St Lowe, Saintlowe, Sentloe, etc.] : m.4 1568 George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.[Separated abt. 1580] No issue. == Sources ==* Dransfield, John Ness. ''[[Space:A History of the Parish of Penistone|A History of the Parish of Penistone]]'' (James H. Wood, The Don Press, Penistone, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/historyofparisho00dran#page/524/mode/2up Page 525-6]::: "At the age of fourteen she became the wife of Robert Barley; next she married Sir William Cavendish; her third husband was Sir William St. Lo, captain of the guard to Queen Elizabeth; and subsequently she married the Earl of Shrewsbury. She built Chatsworth, Hardwicke Hall, and Oldcotes, three of the finest mansions ever raised by one person in the same county, and these were transmitted to her son, Sir William Cavendish, who was afterwards create Earl of Devonshire. Tradition asserts that it was foretold to her that so long as she kept building so long would her life be spared, and that the moment she ceased would be the moment of her death. She therefore continued to build house after house. At length while erecting some almshouse at Derby a sever frost set in. Every means was resorted to enable the men to continue their work. The mortar was dissolved in hot water; and when that failed hot ale was employed. But the frost triumphed, the work ceased, and ''Building Bess'' died."* ''[[Space:Transactions of the Thoroton Society|Transactions of the Thoroton Society]]'', John Standish, ed. (Cooke & Vowles, 1904)::* [https://archive.org/stream/transactionstho08socigoog#page/n58/mode/2up Vol. 8, Page 19]: At "twelve years of age... (she) was betrothed to Mr. Robert Barlow, near Chesterfield - his mother was a Chaworth - he was fourteen years of age, and died next year... she was married three times again, and was buried in All Saints' Church, Derby, where her monument appears"::* [https://archive.org/stream/transactionstho08socigoog#page/n60/mode/2up Vol. 8, Page 20]: "... she married, for his third wife, Sir William Cavendish. They were married at Bradgate, co. Leicester, at 2 a.m... Sir William Cavendish died (1557) leaving Lady Cavendish, aged thirty-seven, with eight young children... Lady Cavendish... married... Sir William St. Loe, of Tormarton, co. of Gloucester, Captain of the Guard to Queen Elizabeth. As Lady St. Loe, she was sent to the Tower for being confidante to the marriage of Lady [[Grey-19|Catharine Grey]] to [[Seymour-41|Edward Seymour]], and not disclosing it... In 1568 Lady St. Loe was married to [[Talbot-100|George]], sixth Earl of Shrewsbury, who was then accounted the greatest subject of the realm. In 1569 the Queen of Scots was placed in their charge; after a time the Countess became jealous of the Queen, and she separated from her husband." * [[Wikipedia: Bess of Hardwick]]* Chalmers, Alexander. ''[[Space:The General Biographical Dictionary|The General Biographical Dictionary]]'' (London, 1813) [https://books.google.com/books?id=QNoFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA475 Vol. 8, Page 475] ===Footnotes===
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| Birth | Abt 1521 | | | | |
| Marriage | 20 Aug 1547 | Sir William Cavendish | | | |
| Marriage | 20 Aug 1547 | William Cavendish | | | |
| Death | Abt 13 Feb 1608 | | | | |
| Reference No | | 681198 | | | |
| Reference No | | 699740 | | | |
| Reference No | | 60 | | | |
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