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==Family== William Cavendish had a total of 16 children by three different wives. His first wife was Margaret Bostock; they had five children, but only three daughters survived: * Catherine, who married Thomas Brooke, son of Lord Cobham * Mary (died after 1547) * Ann, who married Sir Henry Boynton in 1561, the son of [[Edward Bayntun]] and [[Isabel Leigh|Isabel Leigh, Lady Bayntun]], the half-sister of [[Katherine Howard|Queen Katherine Howard]] * Margaret, died in 1540 In 1542, he was married to Elizabeth Parker; she had three children, none of whom survived. She died after giving birth to a stillborn daughter in 1546. In 1547, he married [[Bess of Hardwick]].<ref>[[John Pearson (author)|Pearson, John]], ''The Serpent and the Stag'' (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983), p. 6.</ref> He sold his property in [[Suffolk]] and moved to Bess's native county of Derbyshire. He purchased the [[Chatsworth House|Chatsworth]] estate in 1549 and the couple began to build [[Chatsworth House]] in 1552.<ref>Pearson, p. 18.</ref> In the ten years before he died, they had eight children, six of whom survived infancy: * Frances Cavendish (1548β1632), married [[Henry Pierrepont (politician)|Henry Pierrepont]] * [[Henry Cavendish (politician)|Henry Cavendish]] (1550β1616), eldest son, Knight of the Shire and MP for [[Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Derbyshire]] for over 20 years,<ref name="dnb"/> eventually disinherited by his mother in favour of his younger brother William (ancestor of the branch of the family holding the title of [[Baron Waterpark]]) * [[William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire|William Cavendish]] (1552β1626), the first [[Earl of Devonshire]] * [[Charles Cavendish (died 1617)|Charles Cavendish]] (1553β1617), father of [[William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle]] * [[Elizabeth Stuart, Countess of Lennox|Elizabeth Cavendish]] (1555β1582), later entered into a controversial marriage with [[Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox]], by whom she was the mother of [[Arbella Stuart]], claimant to the English throne * [[Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury|Mary Cavendish]] (1556β1632), married [[Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury]]. Their daughter [[Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel|Alethea Talbot Howard]] is an ancestor of the 5th and later Dukes of Norfolk.
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