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En 1549 la parcela fue adquirida por un tesorero de Enrique VIII, William Cavendish, quien siguió los consejos de su esposa Bess de Hardwick para mudarse aquí desde su residencia en Suffolk. Iniciaron en 1553 la construcción de una nueva casa a orillas del río Derwent, y aunque Cavendish falleció cuatro años después, su viuda prosiguió las obras y las terminó en la década siguiente.
Elizabeth Hardwick, more popularly known as Bess of Hardwick, was the daughter of John Hardwick and Elizabeth Leeke and was born in 1527. The Hardwicks were a prosperous Derbyshire gentry family. Her father died in 1528 and her mother remarried, marrying Ralph Leche of Chatsworth. Bess is today remembered as a builder of great houses, including Chatsworth, Hardwick Hall and Oldcotes. Her name ...
31 de oct. de 2023 · Hardwick’s history is closely associated with the lady who built it, born Elizabeth Hardwick, who became Countess of Shrewsbury, known to many simply as ‘Bess of Hardwick’. Born on the site of Hardwick Old Hall, Bess rose to a position of great power within Elizabethan society. The very fact that Hardwick was built is a sure sign of Bess ...
Bess of Hardwick's letters, which number almost 250 items of correspondence, bring to life her extraordinary story and allow us to eavesdrop on her world. Her letters allow us to reposition Bess as a complex woman of her times, immersed in the literacy and textual practices of everyday life, as her correspondence extends from servants, friends and family, to queens and officers of state.
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 died in 1608 and an elaborate tomb in the Church, styled to her own design, commemorates her life. In 1601, Bess ordered an inventory of the contents of each of her houses. In her will, she bequeathed the old and new halls at Hardwick, plus their contents, and the contents of Chatsworth House to her second son William Cavendish and his ...
10 de mar. de 2020 · Hardwick Hall. Elizabeth Talbot, Condesa de Shrewsbury (1527-1608), conocida como Bess de Hardwick fue una noble inglesa, que construyó tres grandes obras de la época isabelina: Chatsworth, Hardwick Hall y Oldcotes, fue contemporánea de Andrea Palladio. Se destacó realizando negocios incluyendo la minería y talleres de producción de vidrios.
