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ElizabethHardwick, or Hardwicke, Countess of Shrewsbury, known as Bess of Hardwick, (1527-1608) was the daughter and co-heiress of John Hardwicke of Hardwicke in Derbyshire.
In 1574 the countess took advantage of a visit of the countess of Lennox to marry her daughter Elizabeth to Charles Stuart, the younger son of the Lennoxes and brother of Lord Darnley, the second husband of the Mary Queen of Scots.
Bess Hardwick is the subject of several biographies, the latest of which are Bess of Hardwick - First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S Lovell 2005, and Bess of Hardwick - Portrait of an Elizabethan Dynast by David Durant 1977 Jan Westcott's novel The Tower and the Dream was published in (1974).
Queen Elizabeth was a good friend of the St. Loe's, as he had aided her when her life was threatened.
Elizabeth and Charles were in line to succession to the Throne and had a daughter Arabella Stuart.
In 1583, Bess bought Hardwick in her son William's name from her brother, James, who had been heavily in debt for many years, for a sum of £9,500, with the intention that after her death that this should be his estate.
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