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Charles Cavendish (landowner, born 1553)

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42: 53: 209:'s "inventor" or architect. The "inventor" provided Italianate designs with a hall and a small dining room called a "tenelli". The "tenelli" was unsuitable for an English earl, but fitting, said Cavendish, for an Italian gentleman who keeps only a pair of servants and eats only "salads and frogs, that yield little vapour." 191:
visited Sheffield and Hardwick after the death of Bess of Hardwick in 1608. Arbella wrote from Hardwick that Charles Cavendish was a pleasant companion, "I thinck I shall many times wish my selfe set by my cousin Charles at meales". In June 1611, Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury was imprisoned in the
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choosing rapiers as the weapon. They came to Lambeth bridge by boat and it was discovered that Stanhope was wearing a sword-proof padded doublet. The fight was called off. In November 1599 Cavendish was shot in the backside while visiting Kirkby Hardwick, where he was repairing and extending the
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from Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury in 1613. His accounts survive for building the early stages of the "Little Castle" at Bolsover. Unusually for this period female labour was recorded and the women's names or their husbands' names are given.
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for helping Arbella Stuart to escape. Cavendish wrote from Welbeck to Henry Butler, the Shrewsburys' steward at Sheffield with the encouraging news that the Countess had the comfortable "Queen's lodgings" with 3 or 4 rooms.
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that Cavendish had slandered her. Mary wrote in March 1584 that Charles Cavendish was in London, and had kept a pair of swift horses to ride to her with news of
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Cavendish discussed his buildings with the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, and sent them drawings that he developed after discussions with
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He was knighted in 1583. Charles Cavendish wrote to his mother in 1587 describing life at court in London, the reception of
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Cavendish married two heiresses. He married his first wife Margaret Kitson on 6 February 1580, a daughter of
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built in the 1580s for Bess of Hardwick's lawyer, Francis Rodes, and a later-unexecuted plan for a house at
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in 1611, possibly connecting the conception of Bolsover with an interest in Italian design at the court of
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Crosby Stevens, 'The Cavendish Invention of Bolsover Castle', Lisa Hopkins & Tom Rutter,
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for Charles Cavendish. The similarity is a corridor running around the internal courtyard.
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Charles Cavendish married Catherine Ogle (d. 1627), daughter of Cuthbert, 7th Lord Ogle,
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Bess of Hardwick's Letters: Language, Materiality and Early Modern Epistolary Culture
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mansion. The house, also known as Sutton Hardwick, was finally demolished by the
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Trevor Lewis, 'The lost manor of Kirkby Hardwick', Thoroton Society
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After Eton and Cambridge, Charles Cavendish and his stepbrother
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on 5 May 1617. The king stayed for two nights, then went on to
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on details of the contract, instructed by letters from Bess.
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went on a Grand Tour to Venice in 1570 and to Rome in 1574.
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draws a parallel between the plan of Hengrave Hall and
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History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603
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Bess of Hardwick's Letters, Letter ID: 147, July 1582
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Cavalier: The Story of a Seventeenth-century Playboy
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Robert Smythson & The Elizabethan Country House
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Robert Smythson & the Elizabethan Country House
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Robert Smythson & the Elizabethan Country House
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Robert Smythson & the Elizabethan Country House
266:Charles Cavendish died in 1617 and was buried at 865: 497:Patrons and Musicians of the English Renaissance 429:, 3 (London, 1843), p. 158: Alexandre Labanoff, 270:. His son built the monument to his parents in 743:'The Bolsover Castle Building Account, 1613', 48:, the Northumberland home of Charles Cavendish 361:Cavendish Family Tree: Bolsover Parish Church 59:which Cavendish commenced rebuilding in 1613 224:A design for the hall chimney, probably by 741:Douglas Knoop & Gwilyn Peredur Jones, 485:Bess of Hardwick's Letters, Letter ID: 209 272:St Mary and St Laurence's Church, Bolsover 102:, and building projects including work at 75:In July 1582 he had some involvement with 140:over issues including a fish weir in the 683:M. S. Giuseppi & David McN. Lockie, 337:William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle 51: 40: 398:(Arc, 2020), p. 58: Jonathan Woolfson, 277: 14: 866: 800:'Cavendish, Sir Charles (1553-1617)', 541:'Cavendish, Sir Charles (1553-1617)', 380:'Cavendish, Sir Charles (1553-1617)', 529:History and Antiquities of Hengrave 175:Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury 165:Bess of Hardwick and Arbella Stuart 144:. He arranged to fight a duel with 24: 615:David Adshead & David Taylor, 433:, 6 (London: Dolman, 1844), p. 32. 200: 119:The First Set of English Madrigals 25: 895: 631:, vol. 19 (London, 1965), p. 379. 349: 169:In December 1607, Cavendish, the 790:, vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 297. 658:Illustrations of British History 462:, vol. 3 (London, 1843), p. 158. 444:Mary Queen of Scots in Captivity 228:, drew on the published work of 847: 834: 821: 808: 793: 780: 764: 751: 735: 719: 703: 690: 677: 663: 660:, vol. 3 (London, 1791) p. 392. 647: 634: 622: 609: 596: 578: 562: 549: 534: 521: 502: 460:Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots 829:A Companion to the Cavendishes 747:, 49:1 (London 1936), pp. 15-6 698:A Companion to the Cavendishes 673:, 19 (London, 1965), pp. 120-1 604:A Companion to the Cavendishes 489: 478: 465: 449: 436: 427:Letters of Mary Queen of Scots 416: 405: 396:A Companion to the Cavendishes 388: 373: 306:who held discussions with Sir 159:Sutton Parkway railway station 157:in 1966. The site is close to 136:Cavendish had a feud with the 13: 1: 844:(Routledge, 2017), pp. 161-4. 788:Progresses of James the first 592:(London, 1861), pp. 52, 54-55 559:(London, 1983), pp. 175, 231. 517:, 33:87 (May 1960), pp. 73–85 475:(Routledge, 2017), pp. 86-87. 366: 294:. Thomas Kitson was a son of 18:Charles Cavendish (1553–1617) 687:, 19 (London, 1965), p. 121. 531:(London, 1822), pp. 184-186. 313:The architectural historian 87:was her enemy. Mary said to 7: 857:(Yale, 1983), pp. 123, 179. 590:Letters of John Chamberlain 212:Charles Cavendish acquired 10: 900: 777:(London, 1986), pp. 134-5. 575:(London, 2007), pp. 33-34. 446:(sheffield, 1880), p. 577. 402:(Cambridge, 1998), p. 218. 263:, on his way to Scotland. 113:The musician and composer 816:Crisis of the Aristocracy 642:Letters of Arbella Stuart 499:(Cambridge, 1981), p. 81. 63: 759:Elizabethan Architecture 629:HMC 9 Salisbury Hatfield 243:Charles, or his brother 818:(Oxford, 1965), p. 194. 804:, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981 745:Ars Quatuor Coronatorum 732:(London, 1983), p. 234. 716:(London, 1983), p. 231. 545:, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981 431:Letters of Marie Stuart 384:, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981 685:HMC Salisbury Hatfield 671:HMC Salisbury Hatfield 644:(Oxford, 1994), 227-8. 60: 49: 775:Henry Prince of Wales 761:(Yale, 2009), p. 452. 619:(Yale, 2016), p. 158. 509:Wallace T. MacCaffrey 106:which he compared to 55: 44: 28:Sir Charles Cavendish 442:John Daniel Leader, 400:Padua and the Tudors 292:Elizabeth Cornwallis 278:Marriages and family 77:Mary, Queen of Scots 831:(Arc, 2020), p. 60. 700:(Arc, 2020), p. 61. 515:Historical Research 300:Margaret Donnington 133:to Arbella Stuart. 640:Sara Jayne Steen, 606:(Arc, 2020), p. 61 171:Earl of Shrewsbury 85:Earl of Shrewsbury 61: 50: 343:Charles Cavendish 308:Thomas Cornwallis 261:Francis Brandling 245:William Cavendish 230:Sebastiano Serlio 181:for a day to see 81:William Cavendish 36:William Cavendish 16:(Redirected from 891: 884:Cavendish family 858: 851: 845: 840:Alison Wiggins, 838: 832: 825: 819: 814:Lawrence Stone, 812: 806: 797: 791: 784: 778: 768: 762: 755: 749: 739: 733: 723: 717: 707: 701: 694: 688: 681: 675: 667: 661: 651: 645: 638: 632: 626: 620: 613: 607: 600: 594: 582: 576: 566: 560: 553: 547: 538: 532: 525: 519: 506: 500: 495:David C. 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Index

Charles Cavendish (1553–1617)
Bess of Hardwick
William Cavendish

Bothal Castle

Bolsover Castle
Gilbert Talbot
Mary, Queen of Scots
William Cavendish
Earl of Shrewsbury
William Waad
Elizabeth I
Arbella Stuart
Theobalds
Chatsworth
John Wilbye
Kitsons
Hengrave
Stanhope family
River Trent
John Stanhope
Lambeth
Coal Board
Sutton Parkway railway station
Earl of Shrewsbury
Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury
Hardwick Hall
Bess of Hardwick
Arbella Stuart

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