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Hace 4 días · Bess was born into a family of respectable but impoverished Derbyshire landowners. They owned land in and around Hardwick and a modest manor house on the site of Hardwick Old Hall. Bess left home at the age of 12 to serve at nearby Codnor Castle, and by the age of 15 she had married Robert Barlow, heir to a neighbouring gentry family.
The majority of the building materials for Hardwick came from Bess’ own land. She even built a glass factory, to create the magnificent ‘ Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall ’. Today, Hardwick can be reached from Junction 29 of the M1, or from the A617 Chesterfield to Mansfield Road.
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.
Elizabeth Talbot, Condesa de Shrewsbury (c. 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.
Elizabeth Cavendish, later Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (née Hardwick; c. 1521 – 13 February 1608), known as Bess of Hardwick, of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, was a notable figure of Elizabethan English society.
22 de mar. de 2022 · Bess of Hardwick: a brief biography. Born: An unknown date in 1527, the same year that Henry VIII petitioned the Pope to have his marriage to Katherine of Aragon annulled. Death: 13 February 1608. Bess died at her beloved Hardwick Hall – she was around eighty-one years old, an astonishingly old age by the standards of the time.
1 de may. de 2024 · '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.
