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unusual facts about George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury



Magdalen Dacre

Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, of Gilsland, 1st Baron Greystoke, and Elizabeth Greystoke, and her maternal grandparents were George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, and Anne Hastings, daughter of William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings and Katherine Neville.

Margaret Douglas

In 1574 she again aroused Elizabeth's anger by marrying her younger son, Charles, to Elizabeth Cavendish, the stepdaughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury.

Mary Seton

In March 1569 the Earl of Shrewsbury noted that Queen Mary would sit and sew in his wife Bess of Hardwick's chamber at Tutbury Castle accompanied by Mary Seton and Lady Livingston.

Ringinglow

A report dating from 1574 detailed a tour by George Talbot, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, then lord of the manor of Sheffield, of the boundaries of the manor, in which they visited 'a great heape of stones called Ringinglawe' that was used as one of the boundary markers.

Sheffield Cathedral

On the south wall of the Shrewsbury Chapel is the alabaster monument to the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury with its architectural surround, armoured effigy, and Latin inscription.

The monument on the left towards the sanctuary is to George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury.

Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet

Airmine married secondly, on 28 August 1628, Mary Holcroft, widow of Thomas Holcroft of Vale Royal and daughter of Henry Talbot, son of the Earl of Shrewsbury.


see also

Anne Hastings

Anne Hastings, Countess of Shrewsbury, (c.1471–1520), wife of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury

Francis Talbot

Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury (1500 – 1560), son of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury and Anne Hastings