Cavendish, Elizabeth (d. 1582)

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Cavendish, Elizabeth (d. 1582)

Countess of Lennox. Name variations: Bess of Hardwick. Died in 1582; dau. of Elizabeth Talbot (1518–1608), countess of Shrewsbury, and Sir William Cavendish, 1st earl of Devonshire; m. Charles Stuart, 5th earl of Lennox, 1574 (died April 1576); children: Arabella Stuart (1575–1615).

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