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| | Earl of Shrewsbury |
 | | The fourth and fifth Earls of Shrewsbury were both prominent at Court under the early Tudors and the Talbot patrimony reached its greatest extent in the time of Francis, the fifth Earl, who had large grants of monastic and chantry lands, notably Rufford, Worksop Priory, Glossop and Rotherham. |
 | | The marriage of Alathea, the youngest, to Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel whose mother was Anne, one of the sisters and co-heiresses of George, Lord Dacre of Gilsland. |
 | | Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury (1561-1617), son of 6th earl and Gertrude Manners, born in Sheffield. |
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