William Cavendish

1508 - 1557  (49 years)

• Name	William Cavendish
  Birth	1 May 1508  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Oct 1557  [1, 2, 3]
  Burial	30 Oct 1557  [1]
  Person ID	I21425	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Thomas Cavendish,   b. Abt 1480, of Cavendish, Sudbury, Suffolk, England d. 1524 (Age ~ 44 years)
  Mother	Alice Smyth   d. 1515
  Family ID	F12735	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Bostock   d. Bef 9 Jun 1540
  Marriage	Bef 1534  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Anne Cavendish
  Family ID	F12709	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Dec 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Parker   d. Bef 1547
  Marriage	3 Nov 1542	Black Friars, Holborn, London, England   [1]
  Family ID	F12724	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Dec 2018

  
  

  Family 3	Elizabeth Hardwick,   b. Abt 1527   d. 13 Feb 1608 (Age ~ 81 years)
  Marriage	20 Aug 1547	Bradgate, Leicestershire, England   [1, 3]
  Children	1. Elizabeth Cavendish   d. 1582 + 2. Henry Cavendish,   b. 24 Dec 1550, of Tutbury, Staffordshire, England d. 12 Oct 1616 (Age 65 years) + 3. Charles Cavendish,   b. Nov 1553, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England d. 4 Apr 1617 (Age ~ 63 years)
  Family ID	F12733	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  "[E]nglish politician, knight and courtier. Cavendish held public office and accumulated a considerable fortune, and became one of Thomas Cromwell's 'visitors of the monasteries' during the dissolution of the monasteries. He was MP for Thirsk in 1547. In 1547 he married Bess of Hardwick, and the couple began the construction of Chatsworth House in 1552, a project which would not be completed until after his death. His second son William Cavendish (1552-1626) became the first Earl of Devonshire, purchasing his title from the impecunious King James I." [Wikipedia]

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S2664] English Genealogy by Anthony Wagner. Third edition, Phillimore, Sussex, 1983., year only. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.