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Posteriormente, Bess de Hardwick se casó con George Talbot el VI conde de Shrewsbury quien además en el año 1.568 se le encomendaría la tarea de custodiar a María Estuardo luego de su abdicación del trono de Escocia. Es por esta razón que la ex-reina María Estuardo residió varias veces en Chatsworth House.
Bess was the wealthiest woman in Tudor England, and her life testifies to the heights a lady could achieve with the help of a little cunning…and about four rich, dead husbands. Bow down to these scandalous facts about Bess of Hardwick, the Tudor family’s secret-keeper. 1. She Was Born In A Time Of Turmoil.
Chapter 1: Youth & First Marriage. Elizabeth, or Bess, as she is popularly known, was born during the early 1520s to John Hardwick, a small landowner of Hardwick, Derbyshire and Elizabeth Leake. Her actual birthdate is unknown – from as early as 1521 to as late as 1527 have been postulated. The Hardwicks had been established at Hardwick Hall ...
26 de ago. de 2022 · Noblewoman; wife of 6th Earl of Shrewsbury 'Bess of Hardwick' was one of the wealthiest people in late Elizabethan England, and an important patron of architecture. She acquired her wealth through a succession of four progressively more profitable marriages, and through her own business acumen. She is remembered mainly for the house she had built at Hardwick, to a plan by the great Elizabethan ...
This Elizabethan-revival frame of 1865 was conceived by George Scharf, Secretary and later Director of the National Portrait Gallery, in collaboration with Henry Critchfield, the Gallery's framemaker. It is an unusual instance of antiquarian framing by the Gallery in its early days. The picture is an early copy of the portrait of 'Bess of ...
An introduction to Bess of Hardwick, a phenomenal woman who rose from being born into minor gentry to becoming the second wealthiest woman in England after Q...
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Hardwick Old Hall, which Bess built on the site of her birthplace, a smaller medieval manor house, Derbyshire. English Heritage. Ancestry. Given the above, it is jaw-dropping to learn that Bess achieved everything she did with such humble origins. Bess was born in 1527 to John Hardwick and Elizabeth Leake.
