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  Earl of Shrewsbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Earl of Shrewsbury is the senior Earl on the Roll in the Peerage of England (the more senior Earldom of Arundel being held by the Duke of Norfolk).
The 1st Earl of Shrewsbury was created Earl of Waterford, in the Peerage of Ireland, and Hereditary Lord High Steward of Ireland, in 1446, and the two earldoms have been united since.
The seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury was once Alton Towers until it was sold to The Tussauds Group.
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 SHREWSBURY, COUNTESS OF - LoveToKnow Article on SHREWSBURY, COUNTESS OF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
SHREWSBURY, CHARLES TALBOT, DUKE OF (1660-1718), only son by his second wife of ;Francis Talbot, nth earl of Shrewsbury, was born on the 24th of July 1660.
The duke of Shrewsbury was one of the greatest noblemen of the reign of Queen Anne.
On the accession of George I. the duchess of Shrewsbury became a lady of the bedchamber to the princess of Wales, a position which she retained till her death on the 2gth of June 1726.
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 Encyclopedia: George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (1528–18 November 1590) was an English statesman during the 16th century.
Meanwhile, in 1571, Lord Shrewsbury was appointed Lord High Steward (the premier Great Office of State) for the trial of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (regarding the Ridolfi plot).
Finally, in 1572, Lord Shrewsbury was appointed Earl Marshal, a position that he held (along with the aforementioned position of Justice in Eyre) until his death in 1590.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 1215
     Grace Talbot is the daughter of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury and Gertrude Manners.
     George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury was born in 1528.
She married Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, son of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury and Gertrude Manners, between 9 February 1567 and 1568.
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 AllRefer.com - Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of[shrOz´burE, shrOOz´–] Pronunciation Key, 1520–1608, English noblewoman, known as Bess of Hardwick.
She was married and widowed twice more, inheriting large estates, before she was married in 1568 to George Talbot, 6th earl of Shrewsbury.
The marriage (1574) of her daughter Elizabeth to Charles Stuart, brother of Lord Darnley, angered Queen Elizabeth I because Stuart had a claim to the throne, and the countess was sent to the Tower of London for three months.
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 George TALBOT (6° E. Shrewsbury)
Shrewsbury was preoccupied as he was with the problem of Mary Stuart, now confined a close prisoner in the Turret House of Sheffield Castle.
Shrewsbury was well aware that, despite his vigilance, Mary was in contact with the French Ambassador and that that gentleman would soonhear the Queen of Scots' compaints of neglect.
Shrewsbury himself had come to the Court at Oatlands accompanied by his retainers, 'only myself excepted'; he had behaved discreetly in the matter of the charges of treason and had been graciously used by the Queen, but had utterly refused to be reconciled to his wife.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafn498 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Shrewsbury and Waterford is the premier Earldom in the United Kingdom, dating to 1442 when the celebrated warrior John Talbot was created the first Earl of Shrewsbury.
The 3rd Earl Talbot's claim to the Earldom of Shrewsbury and to the Earldom of Waterford was allowed by the Committee for Priveleges in 1858, and consequently Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot became the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury.
Talbot was brought in 1884 by the Marchionness of Lothian against her uncles, the Revs.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
770 (inv 1878) Benjamin (D'Israeli), Earl of Beaconsfield.
787 (inv 1886) Algernon George (Percy), 6th Duke of Northumberland (1810-99).
Earl of Hereford, K.G. Married Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham, K.G., afterwards Duke of Gloucester.
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 Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon - PLAAF.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
1576), a descendant of George, Duke of Clarence; and, asserting that he was thus entitled to succeed Elizabeth I of England on the English throne, Huntingdon won a certain amount of support, especially from the Protestants and the enemies of Mary, Queen of Scots.
In 1572 he was appointed president of the Council of the North, and during the troubled period between the flight of Mary to England in 1568 and the defeat of the Spanish Armada twenty years later he was frequently employed in the north of England.
He assisted George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, to remove the Scottish queen from Wingfield Manor to Tutbury, and for a short time in 1569 he was one of her custodians.
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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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 Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology | Miscellaneous articles: Rufford Abbey (2)
This earl of Shrewsbury was officially connected with several other religious houses and no doubt was well informed about the disposal of them when they were about to be dissolved.
This Earl was a brother of Henry Stuart Earl of Darnley second husband of Mary Queen of Scots and their only child was James VI of Scotland who also became James I of England.
In 1752 Richard fourth Earl of Scarborough was married in the chapel to Barbara second daughter of Sir George Savile.
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 Earl of Shrewsbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
The Earl of Shrewsbury is the senior Earl in the Peerage of England.
Roger of Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury (d.
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, 12th Earl of Shrewsbury (1660-1718)
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 Lord High Steward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
The position was held from the 15th century by the Earls of Shrewsbury and Waterford, also the Premier Earls of England and (discounting dormant and submerged titles) of Ireland.
The Earl of Shrewsbury, at the trial of the Duke of Norfolk, 1571
The Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, for the trial of the Earl of Kilmarnock; the Earl of Cromartie, and Lord Balmerinoch, 1746
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 Chatsworth House Information and photographs
Mary's principle custodian during that time was George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, who became the fourth husband of Bess of Hardwick.
William had recently been awarded a Dukedom for his part in the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688, which had resulted in the removal of James II from the throne, and the installation of James II's eldest daughter and her Dutch husband, Mary and William as joint regents.
William Cavendish (then 4th Earl of Devonshire) had been one of the seven of 'England's most influential men' who had signed an invitation to William of Orange for him to restore Protestantism to England and claim the English throne for his wife.
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 Earl of Shrewsbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
In 1856 the Earldoms of Shrewsbury and Waterford to a branch of the family who hold the titles of Earl Talbot and Viscount Ingestre both created 1784 and Baron Talbot of Hensol created 1733 in the Peerage of Great Britain.
The 1st Earl of Shrewsbury was Earl of Waterford in the Peerage of Ireland and Hereditary Lord High Steward of Ireland in 1446 and the two earldoms have been since.
If Viscount Mountgarret proves his presumed claim to the 1328 Earldom of Ormonde the Earls of Shrewsbury would lose distinction but they derive higher precedence from their English earldom in any
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 Rufford Craft Centre
George Talbot, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, transformed it into a country house.
Sir George Savile rebuilt the house and landscaped the gardens, making it his principal country seat.
Following the death of the 2nd Lord Savile in 1931, the trustees of the young 3rd Lord Savile decided to sell the estate and, in 1938, the doors to Rufford were closed.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 1229
He was the son of General John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Maud de Neville, Baroness Furnivalle.
She married John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, son of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and Elizabeth Butler, circa 1467.
She married George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, son of John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury and Catherine Stafford.
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 Bess of Hardwick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
In 1567 Bess married George Talbot, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
Shrewsbury refused to forgive his wife, even though she persisted to write to him to take her back.
In 1610 Arabella married Earl of Hertford, the most dangerous of possible marriages and claimants to the throne and was sent to the Tower of London where she died in 1615.
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 ipedia.com: Mary I of Scotland Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
The six-day-old Mary became Queen of Scotland, with James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, the next in line for the throne, acting as regent (until 1554, when he was succeeded by the Queen's mother, who continued as regent until her own death in 1560).
In May of 1544, the English Earl of Hertford arrived in the Firth of Forth hoping to capture Edinburgh and kidnap the infant queen, but Marie de Guise hid her in the secret chambers of Stirling Castle.
She was still only 19 and, despite her talents, her upbringing had not given her the judgement to cope with the dangerous and complex political situation in the Scotland of the time.
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 Rufford Abbey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
Once one of the great private estates in Sherwood Forest it includes a country park with large areas of woodland and parkland criss-crossed with footpaths.The 12th Century Rufford Abbey was founded by Cistercian monks and later transformed for the Talbot and Savile families into a grand country house.
Later the Crown granted the abbey to the Talbot family, one of England's richest and most powerful families.
George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, transformed it into a grand country house.
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 Bess of Hardwick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
Fourth, in 1567, to George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, one of the premier earls of the realm, with sevenchildren from his first marriage; two of his children married two of hers in a double ceremony in February 1568.
For many years (1569 - 1584), the Earl and Countesshad to keep Mary Queen of Scots imprisoned on one or another oftheir estates, but it was not until that poor woman was removed to another jailer that she got into the trouble that cost her herlife.
Around the same time she was removed from his custody, the Earl left Bess for good -- they had been separated off-and-onsince about 1580, and even Queen Elizabeth had tried toget them to reconcile.
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 Topiary Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
Queen Elizabeth I appointed Shrewsbury custodian of Mary Queen of Scots, who was a prisoner at Chatsworth at various times between 1569 and 1584.
Her lodgings were on the east side of the house and her rooms there, though changed beyond recognition, are still called the Queen of Scots Apartments.
In 1686 the 4th Earl (1640-1707; created 1st Duke of Devonshire in 1694 for his part in bringing William of Orange to the English throne to pull down the South Front.
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 Church of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
The papers of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury, are one of the most important Tudor family archives.
There are letters from Henry VIII and Queen Mary Tudor, and no less that 15 from Queen Elizabeth, including one written in 1572 assuring the Earl of Shrewsbury that she had escaped unscathed from a recent attack of smallpox.
There are also numerous documents relating to Mary Queen of Scots, for the Earl of Shrewsbury served as her guardian in captivity for sixteen years from 1569 to 1584.
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 George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury - Information
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In that year, he inherited the Earldom of Shrewsbury, the Barony of Furnivall and the position of Justice in Eyre, which had been his father's.
He was buried in the Shrewsbury chapel at Sheffield Parish Church (now Sheffield Cathedral), where a large monument to him can still be seen.
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 Earl Hardwick in directory.co.uk
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Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (1518-1608), 'Bess of
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 Women in society
Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (1520-1608) known as "Bess of Hardwick" was born to a modest gentry family.
Her second husband, the "brutal simpleton" Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery (1584-1649) - one of those to whom Shakespeare's first folio was dedicated in 1623 - was also unfaithful on a grand scale as well as being stupid, violent and extravagant.
Her husbands' death left Anne with two rich jointures, but she was also able - after lengthy legal disputes - to inherit the family's land (despite her father's attempts just before his death to bequeath his estates away from Anne to his brother, Francis, and his male heirs).
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