George Talbot 4th Earl Shrewsbury [39839] ²⁵

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Knight of the Garter <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/Knights%20of%20the%20Garter.htm>. Knight of the Bath 18 Apr 1475 [DNB] Earl of Waterford. Fought with distinction against Lambert Simnel at the battle of Stoke <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/the_battle_of_stoke.htm>. Broke with the tradition of his family and decided to make Sheffield his home, living in the castle built by Lord Furnival. Having a large family and being a very wealthy man, he found the castle accommodation extremely cramped. In 1516, he decided to build himself a country mansion on a hill about two miles away, in the stretch of woodland called Sheffield Park. The Park at that time was quite large and deer roamed freely through the oak and walnut trees. Built of brick and stone, the Lodge, as George Talbot called it, was oblong in shape and had an inner and outer courtyard. The Earl spent considerable sums of money on decorating the building and from then on, lived either in the Manor Lodge or in Sheffield Castle. He was now a very powerful man, being Lord Steward of the King's Household and Lieutenant-General of the North, and he built a chapel in Sheffield Parish Church, in which he and his family could be buried. This is known as the Shrewsbury Chapel and now forms a historic part of Sheffield Cathedral. A famous visitor to the Manor Lodge during George's time was Cardinal Wolsey <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/ThomasWolsey(Cardinal).htm>, who was kept at the Manor for eighteen days when he passed through Sheffield on his way to London in 1530. On the 4 Nov 1530, he was arrested for treason and brought south from York for his trial, arriving four days later at the Manor Lodge. He was treated kindly by the Earl and his family, who tried to make his stay as comfortable as possible. However, Wolsey <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/ThomasWolsey(Cardinal).htm> became very ill before leaving Sheffield under guard.
Eight years later, in 1538, the Earl died while at Wingfield Manor and his body was laid to rest in the Shrewsbury Chapel, in the Sheffield Parish Church. Here he joined his first wife, Anne Hastings, the mother of eleven of his children. In his will, the fourth Earl directed 'that a tomb of marble should be set over his grave with three images thereon, namely one of himself in his mantle of the Garter, another of his deceased wife in her robes, and a third of his wife then living'. This beautiful tomb, still in near perfect condition, stands under a flat-topped arch on the left-hand side of the Shrewsbury Chapel.

George married Anne Hastings Countess Shrewsbury [39840] [MRIN: 7931], daughter of William Hastings 1st Baron Ashby Zouche [28497] and Catherine Neville Baroness of Ashby-Zouch (Zouche) [4402], before 27 Jun 1481 in Kirby, Leicestershire, England. (Anne Hastings Countess Shrewsbury [39840] was born about 1471 in Kirby, Leicestershire, England, died between 27 Jun 1481 and 4 Jan 1507 and was buried in St. Peter, Sheffield, England.)

George next married Elizabeth Walden Countess Shrewsbury [55048] [MRIN: 551614321], daughter of Sir Richard of Erith Walden [55049] and Unknown, about 1512.