Bess Of Hardwick

1. (date unknown) to Robert Barlow when they were too young, and he too sick, to consummate their marriage before he died.
2. In 1547, to the twice-widowed Sir William Cavendish (who had two daughters), with whom she had eight children, two of whom died in infancy.
3. In 1559, to Sir William St. Loe (or St. Lo) who, when he died in 1564/5, left her with responsibility for his two daughters from his first marriage, in addition to her own six children and two stepdaughters from her second husband.
4. In 1567, to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, one of the premier earls of the realm, with seven children from his first marriage; two of his children married two of hers in a double ceremony in February 1568. (There were rumours at the time that she was so fond of the great ropes of the "Talbot pearls" the Countess got to wear that she wanted to keep them in her family by marrying her daughter to the Earl's oldest unmarried son, his second one because his eldest was already married. It worked, because her daughter did eventually become the Countess.)

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