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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 ...
30 de mar. de 2021 · Hear the story of Bess of Hardwick who rose from a modest background to become a close friend of Queen Elizabeth I, keeper and confidant to Mary Queen of Sco...
- 7 min
- 1808
- Chesterfield Borough Council
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 de Hardwick. Elizabeth Cavendish , más tarde Elizabeth Talbot, condesa de Shrewsbury (c. 1527 - 13 de febrero de 1608), conocida como Bess of Hardwick (de soltera Elizabeth Hardwick ), de Hardwick Hall en Derbyshire, fue una figura notable de la sociedad inglesa isabelina. Mediante una serie de matrimonios bien hechos, alcanzó los ...
During her lifetime Bess built two great country houses which are still admired today--Chatsworth and Hardwick--and fulfilled her lifetime's ambition of founding a great dynasty. By the end of the 19th century, her blood was flowing through most of the aristocratic families of England, and she more than guaranteed her status as one of the most remarkable women in Tudor history.
27 de ago. de 2021 · Bess of Hardwick. Elizabeth, Comtesse de Shrewsbury (1527-1608), surnommée Bess of Hardwick, était une richissime aristocrate anglaise à la personnalité flamboyante. Bess de Hardwick vit le jour dans un modeste manoir médiéval à Hardwick. Son père était un simple gentleman farmer mais Bess avait de l’ambition.
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 ...
