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7 de mar. de 2023 · Bess de Hardwick fue una arquitecta y empresaria inglesa considerada como una de las mujeres más ricas de Inglaterra durante el periodo Tudor. Al pertenecer a la nobleza, pudo diseñar y financiar la construcción de varias casas de campo impresionantes como Chatsworth House , Hardwick Hall y la hoy inexistente mansión de Oldcotes .
Bess van Hardwick. Elizabeth Talbot, gravin van Shrewsbury (ca. 1527 – 1608 ), beter bekend als Bess van Hardwick, was een Engelse aristocrate die in de 16e eeuw een van de belangrijkste figuren aan het hof van koningin Elizabeth was. Hoewel ze zelf naar contemporaine maatstaven van relatief lage afkomst was, wist Bess zich via vier ...
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.
Bess blev känd för sina byggprojekt, särskilt två av dem: Chatsworth, numera säte för hertigarna av Devonshire, vars familjenamn fortfarande är Cavendish eftersom de är ättlingar från hennes andra äktenskap) och Hardwick Hall, om vilket man sagt i mer än 400 år nu: "Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall," (eftersom det har så många, och stora, fönster).
12 de feb. de 2008 · Bess of Hardwick was the proverbial legend in her own lifetime. From an unremarkable family, she became the second richest woman in England - only surpassed by Queen Elizabeth herself.
Hew Draper, an innkeeper from Bristol, was imprisoned in the salt tower in 1561 following an accusation of witchcraft against Bess de Hardwick and her husband Sir William St. Lo. Draper claimed that, although he was interested in magic, he had burned all his books on this subject.
Bess was born into a comfortable, but not grand, farmhouse called Hardwick Hall (1), just on the Derbyshire side of the county border with Nottingham. Although her father died when she was a child, leaving a minor heir, Bess’ mother managed to retain the house for the younger siblings to live in. Mrs Hardwick remarried and had three more ...
