In numerical analysis it is often necessary to estimate the condition number 8ab8b6edade2eb7ca078488e0dbd6267" title="Click to view the MathML source">CN(T)=‖T‖⋅‖T−1‖ and the norm of the resolvent e897e140cd1a4f40764b7a74bbf7a59d" title="Click to view the MathML source">‖(ζ−T)−1‖ of a given n×n matrix T . We derive new spectral estimates for these quantities and compute explicit matrices that achieve our bounds. We recover the fact that the supremum of 8a54aa25b29ff658610c746b9" title="Click to view the MathML source">CN(T) over all matrices with afa2eaf81181dca3df389da" title="Click to view the MathML source">‖T‖≤1 and minimal absolute eigenvalue r=minλ∈σ(T)|λ|>0 is the Kronecker bound e66b2f922ae84f5e">. This result is subsequently generalized by computing for given ζ in the closed unit disc the supremum of e897e140cd1a4f40764b7a74bbf7a59d" title="Click to view the MathML source">‖(ζ−T)−1‖, where afa2eaf81181dca3df389da" title="Click to view the MathML source">‖T‖≤1 and the spectrum e6d1a842727a620e4816cfc0b00aaeb4" title="Click to view the MathML source">σ(T) of T is constrained to remain at a pseudo-hyperbolic distance of at least ada40f8fd6b9e144f" title="Click to view the MathML source">r∈(0,1] around ζ . We find that the supremum is attained by a triangular Toeplitz matrix. This provides a simple class of structured matrices on which condition numbers and resolvent norm bounds can be studied numerically. The occurring Toeplitz matrices are so-called model matrices, i.e. matrix representations of the compressed backward shift operator on the Hardy space e6463eb2fdf459e787fb344e26467" title="Click to view the MathML source">H2 to a finite-dimensional invariant subspace.