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| | Rufford Abbey and the Savile Family |
 | | Rufford Abbey was a Cistercian house, in honour of the Virgin Mary, founded by Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln,nephew to the Conqueror, in 1146. |
 | | Rufford became an occasional residence of this noble family, and it was here that Bess of Hardwick, arranged a hasty marriage between her daughter Elizabeth and Charles Stuart, younger brother of Darnley, the father of James 1st. |
 | | Mary, the wife of Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury and daughter of Bess of Hardwick, resided at Rufford in her widowhood, and the estate passed into that family by the marriage of her sister-in-law, Lady Mary Talbot, with Sir George Savile, of Barrowby, Lincolnshire. |
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