 Bess of Hardwick

Elizabeth Cavendish, later Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 152713 February 1608), known as Bess of Hardwick ("née" Elizabeth Hardwick), of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, was a notable figure of Elizabethan English society.By a series of well-made marriages, she rose to the highest levels of English nobility and became enormously wealthy.