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CAVENDISH, Elizabeth
(1555-1581)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. STEWART, Charles 6th (or 1st) Earl of Lennox ([c1571] 3rd creation)

CAVENDISH, Elizabeth 1

  • Born: 1555 2
  • Marriage (1): STEWART, Charles 6th (or 1st) Earl of Lennox ([c1571] 3rd creation) in 1574 1
  • Died: 21 January 1581(1582) 2

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Elizabeth married Charles STEWART 6th (or 1st) Earl of Lennox ([c1571] 3rd creation), son of Matthew STEWART 4th Earl of Lennox and Margaret DOUGLAS Countess of Lennox, in 1574.1 (Charles STEWART 6th (or 1st) Earl of Lennox ([c1571] 3rd creation) was born in 1555,1 died in 1576 in London, England 1 and was buried in 1576 in Westminster Abbey, London, England 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Charles (Stewart), sixth Earl of Lennox, younger son of the fourth Earl, born in 1555. He had five charters, dated 18 April 1572, conveying to him and to his heirs the earldom of Lennox, but did not long enjoy his title, dying at London in his twenty-first year, 1576, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. He married, in 1574, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Cavendish, and sister of William, first Earl of Devonshire, and had an only child,

1. Arabella,"

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) 1

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 5 (1908).

2 Internet Site, https://www.thepeerage.com/p10208.htm#i102076 Elizabeth Cavendish.

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