Elizabeth Shrewsbury - Bess of Hardwick
Possibly Frances Cavendish!
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Sir Henry Pierrepont
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The connection with Holme Pierrepont and Bess of Hardwick goes back to when her eldest daughter Frances married Sir Henry Pierrepont. Henry and Frances lived at Holme Pierrepont.
Frances Pierrepont (née Cavendish; b. 1548) was Bess's eldest child from her second marriage, to Sir William Cavendish (1508-57). She is first mentioned in letters written by Bess as a young girl, when her mother, who calls her 'franke', tells her to practise her virginal (ID 101). In 1562 she married Henry Pierrepont and they resided at Holme Pierrepont Hall, outside Nottingham. Among their five children were Robert, Earl of Kingston (later Dukes of Kingston and Earl Manvers) and Elizabeth (b. 1567; known as Bessie) who aged four became attendant to the Scots Queen and later married Richard Stapleton. In her will, Bess left Frances a precious book, commissioned during her marriage to Cavendish, set with gold, stones and portraits of herself and Frances’s father.
Frances Pierrepont (née Cavendish; b. 1548) was Bess's eldest child from her second marriage, to Sir William Cavendish (1508-57). She is first mentioned in letters written by Bess as a young girl, when her mother, who calls her 'franke', tells her to practise her virginal (ID 101). In 1562 she married Henry Pierrepont and they resided at Holme Pierrepont Hall, outside Nottingham. Among their five children were Robert, Earl of Kingston (later Dukes of Kingston and Earl Manvers) and Elizabeth (b. 1567; known as Bessie) who aged four became attendant to the Scots Queen and later married Richard Stapleton. In her will, Bess left Frances a precious book, commissioned during her marriage to Cavendish, set with gold, stones and portraits of herself and Frances’s father.
Bess of Hardwick
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The Pierrepont Lions and Cavendish Stags
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Bess of Hardwick was probably the most powerful woman in Elizabethan England after the Queen herself and after the marriage of Frances, Bess married her children off to grander and grander people. In North Nottinghamshire are the estates of Thoresby Park, Rufford Abbey, Worksop Manor, Welbeck Abbey and Clumber Park. This area coined by Horace Walpole as the Dukeries have estates that overlap. It was until the advent of farming one massive deer park and all the descendants trace their ancestry back to one woman Elizabeth Cavendish, later Countess of Shrewsbury
