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Dorothy Wentworth

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Birthplace: Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
Death: 1506 (23-33)
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Daughter of Henry Wentworth, 4th Baron Despencer and Lady Anne Wentworth (Say), Baroness Despencer
Wife of Sir Robert Broughton, Kt.
Sister of Elizabeth Bourchier; Richard Wentworth, 5th Baron Despencer; Edward Wentworth; Margery Wentworth, Lady Seymour and Jane Wentworth

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About Dorothy Wentworth

  • Name Dorothy Wentworth [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • Born Abt 1491 of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
  • Died Bef 1506
  • Father Sir Henry Wentworth, 4th Lord Despenser, b. Cal 1448, of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. Bef 27 Feb 1500-1501 (Age ~ 53 years)
  • Mother Anne Say, b. Abt 1453, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. 1515 (Age ~ 62 years)
  • Family Sir Roger Broughton, d. 17 Aug 1506, of, Denston, Suffolk, England
  • Sources
  • [S50] Medieval, royalty, nobility family group sheets (filmed 1996), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Department. Medieval Family History Unit, (Manuscript. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1996), FHL film 1553977-1553985..
  • [S88] #542 Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire (1874), Foster, Joseph, (2 volumes in 12. London: W. Wilfred Head, 1874), FHL book Q 942.74 D2f; FHL microfilm 924,024., vol. 1 pt. 4 Pedigree of Wentworth of Woodhouse.
  • [S17] #894 Cahiers de Saint-Louis (1976), Louis IX, Roi de France, (Angers: J. Saillot, 1976), FHL book 944 D22ds., vol. 11 p. 830.
  • [S23] Magna Carta Ancestry: A study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Richardson, Douglas, (Kimball G. Everingham, editor. 2nd edition, 2011), vol. 3 p. 237.
  • [S289] #4271 The Visitation of Suffolke, Made by William Hervey, Clarenceaux King of Arms, 1561: with Additions from Family Documents, Original Wills, Jermyn, Davy, and Other Mss, &c, Hervey, William, (2 volumes. London: Whittaker and Col., 1866-1871), FHL microfilm 453035 items 2-3., vol. 2 pt. 1 p. 163.
  • [S29] #798 The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, Watney, Vernon James, (4 volumes. Oxford: John Johnson, 1928), FHL book Q 929.242 W159w; FHL microfilm 1696491 items 6-9., vol. 3 p. 823.
  • https://histfam.familysearch.org//getperson.php?personID=I15900&tre... _____________
  • The Wentworth genealogy, comprising the origin of the name, the family in England, and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the emigrant, and of his descendants (1870)
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n174/mo...
  • The direct line was continued by
  • (15) Sir Philip Wentworth, Kt., of Nettlestead, who married Mary, daughter of John, Lord Clifford, of Westmoreland, and had issue as follows:--
  • (16) Sir Henry Wentworth, Kt., High Sheriff of Yorkshire, 5 or 7, Henry VII., whose will is dated 17 August, 1499, and proved 27 February, 1500-1. He married twice. By his 2d wife, Lady Elizabeth Scroope, who survived him, he had no issue. By his 1st wife, Anne, daughter of Sir John Say, Kt., he had issue as follows:
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n176/mo...
    • 1. Sir Richard, of whom hereafter.
    • 2. Edward, who inherited Hawston, Co. Cambridge, and was living, 17 August, 1499.
    • 3. Jane, living, 1499, unmarried.
    • 4. Dorothy, unmarried, in 1499; bur subsequently married Sir Robert Broughton, Kt.
    • 5. Elizabeth, who married, 1st Sir Robert Darcy, Kt., of Danbury, Co. Essex; and 2d, Sir Thomas Wyndham, Kt., of Felbrigg, Co. Norfolk.
    • 6. Margery, who married Sir John Seymour, Kt., of Wolf Hall, Co. Wilts. He died in 1536, and she in 1550. Of their children, Edward Seymour became Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector, and was beheaded 22 Janurary, 1552; and Jane became the third wife of King Henry VIII., and was the mother of King Edward VI.
  • The line was continued by _______________
  • Sir Henry Wentworth of Nettlestead, Suffolk, KB (born c.1448, died between 17 August 1499 and 27 February 1501), de jure 4th Baron Despenser, was the grandfather of Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, and the great-grandfather of Jane's son, Edward VI.
  • Henry Wentworth, born about 1448, was the only son and heir of the courtier Sir Philip Wentworth (d. 18 May 1464) of Nettlestead, Suffolk, beheaded after the Battle of Hexham, and Mary Clifford, daughter of John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford, by Lady Elizabeth Percy, the daughter of Henry Percy (Hotspur).[1] He was the grandson of Roger Wentworth and Margery le Despencer. In taking as her second husband Roger Wentworth, a younger son of John Wentworth of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, Sir Philip's mother, Margery, Lady Roos, who was the daughter and heiress of Philip le Despencer, 2nd Baron le Despencer, was said to have 'married herself dishonourably without licence from the King'.[2][3] Sir Philip Wentworth served in the army of King Henry VI in the Wars of the Roses. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Hexham, and beheaded at Middleham, Yorkshire, on 18 May 1464.[2]
  • Wentworth was pardoned in 1462, and two years later his father's lands were restored to him by Parliament. In 1475 he went to France with the army of Edward IV. He was invested with the Order of the Bath in 1489. He served as an Esquire of the Household and a Knight of the Body, and held the offices of Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire, and High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1482. He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1489 and 1492.[4]
  • Wentworth's will, made on 17 August 1499, was proved 27 February 1501. He was buried in Newhouse Abbey, Lincolnshire.[4]
  • Wentworth married firstly, Anne Say (died before 22 October 1494), the daughter of Sir John Say and Elizabeth Cheyney, by whom he had two sons and four daughters:[4][5][6][7]
  • Sir Richard Wentworth, who married Anne Tyrrell, the daughter of Sir James Tyrrell, by whom he had three sons, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, Richard and Philip, and five daughters, Anne, Elizabeth, Margery, Dorothy and Thomasine.[8]
    • Edward Wentworth.[8]
    • Elizabeth Wentworth (died after 22 September 1545), who married firstly, Sir Roger Darcy (d. 30 September 1508) of Danbury, Essex, by whom she was the mother of Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche (1506 – 28 June 1558).[9][5] She married secondly, as his second wife, Sir Thomas Wyndham (d.1522) of Felbrigg, Norfolk,[10] Vice-Admiral and councillor to Henry VIII, by whom she was the mother of Sir Thomas Wyndham.[11] She married thirdly, as his third wife, John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath.[12][11]
    • Margery Wentworth (c. 1478 - c. October 1550), who married, before 1500, Sir John Seymour, by whom she was the mother of Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI.[13][14][15][5]
    • Dorothy Wentworth, who married, as his second wife, Sir Robert Broughton.[8]
    • Jane Wentworth.[8]
  • Wentworth married secondly, by licence dated 22 October 1494, Elizabeth Neville (d. September 1517), widow of Thomas Scrope, 6th Baron Scrope of Masham and Upsall (d. 23 April 1493), and second daughter of John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu by Isabel, daughter of Sir Edmund Ingaldsthorpe, by whom he had no issue. She died in September 1517, and left a will dated 7 March 1514, which was proved 9 December 1521. She was buried with her first husband at the Blackfriars, London.[8]
  • From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wentworth __________________
  • Sir Robert Broughton (died 17 August 1506)[1] was a landowner, soldier, and Member of Parliament for Suffolk. He was knighted at the Battle of Stoke, where he fought on the Lancastrian side under John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford. He was a close associate of the Earl, and is said to have married the Earl's illegitimate daughter, Katherine.
  • Robert Broughton was the son of John Broughton (d.1479) of Denston, and Anne Denston (d.1481), daughter and heir of John Denston (d.1473) by Katherine Clopton, daughter of Sir William Clopton (d.1446) of Long Melford. Portraits of Robert Broughton's parents are preserved in the stained glass windows of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk, while the 'cadaver tomb' of his maternal grandparents is in the church of St Nicholas at Denston.[2][3]
  • The Broughton family, of Broughton in Buckinghamshire, is said to have acquired its wealth through marriage with an heiress in the early fifteenth century. Mary Pever, the daughter of Thomas Pever (d. 22 September 1429) by Margaret Loring, one of the two daughters and coheirs of Sir Nigel Loring (d. 13 March 1386), a founding member of the Order of the Garter, married firstly Sir Richard St. Maur (d. 6 January 1409), and secondly John Broughton, by whom she had a son, John Broughton (d.1489), Sheriff of Bedfordshire, whose son, John Broughton (d.1479), married Anne Denston (d.1481) and predeceased his father by ten years, leaving a son, Robert, to inherit the Broughton estates.[4][5][6][7][8]
  • Broughton had two brothers, William and Edward, and a sister, Elizabeth, married to Edmund Cornwall.[9][10]
  • The Broughton arms are given as 'Argent, a chevron between three mullets gules'.[11][12]
  • Broughton was made a Knight of the Bath when the four-year-old Richard, Duke of York, second son to King Edward IV, one of the two princes later said to have been murdered in the Tower of London, married Anne de Mowbray on 15 January 1478.[13][14][15][16]
  • He was a close associate of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, and a feudal tenant of the Earl in Ashdon, Essex and Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire.[17] He fought under the Earl's banner at the Battle of Stoke in June 1487, and was knighted on the battlefield[18] together with John Paston II and George Hopton. According to Richmond, a record of the knighting of Broughton, Paston and Hopton is found in a copy of William Caxton’s Game and Playe of the Chesse once owned by John Paston III, and now in the British Library.[8][19] Broughton's name is also found on a list in the royal household books of those in the 13th Earl's affinity who were to raise forces in July 1487 at the King's and the Earl's costs and charges.[20]
  • In January 1488 Broughton was a witness to a recognizance in the amount of £2000 taken by the 13th Earl from Sir Edmund Hastings to guarantee Hastings’ continuing loyalty to Henry VII.[21]
  • In 1489 he was elected Member of Parliament for Suffolk, likely as a result of the 13th Earl's influence.[22]
  • In January 1496 Broughton served as deputy to the 13th Earl as Constable of Clare Castle, Suffolk. [17]
  • In October 1501 he was among those who participated in an entertainment on a grand scale to welcome to England Catherine of Aragon, the bride of Henry VII's eldest son and heir, Arthur, Prince of Wales. After journeying on the Thames to the Tower of London, Catherine was met by King Henry VII’s second son, the future Henry VIII, accompanied by the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Durham, the Earls of Suffolk and Shrewsbury, several barons, and a number of knights, including Broughton.[23]
  • Broughton made his will on 20 June 1504, requesting burial in Denston church, and appointing his wife, Katherine, as one of his executors, and the 13th Earl of Oxford as supervisor. He died on 17 August 1506. His will was proved 10 July 1507.[24][9] The inquisition post mortem taken after Broughton's death assessed his annual income at £600, making him 'one of the richest non-baronial landowners in England'.[25]
  • Broughton's two sons received legacies in the 13th Earl's will when the Earl died in 1513. The elder son, John, was bequeathed two silver flagons, while the younger, Robert, was given £40. Robert appears to have been in the 13th Earl's service, as he was also granted an annuity of 53s 4d.[17]
  • Broughton married firstly Katherine de Vere, said to have been the illegitimate daughter of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, by whom he had two sons and a daughter:
    • John Broughton (d. 24 January 1518)[26][27][28] of Toddington, Bedfordshire, aged fifteen at his father's death.[29] He married Anne Sapcote (d. 14 March 1559),[30] the daughter and heir of Sir Guy Sapcote by Margaret Wolston, daughter and heir of Sir Guy Wolston,[31] and by her had a son and three daughters:
      • 1. John Broughton (d.1528).
      • 2. Katherine Broughton (d. 23 April 1535), who was the first wife of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham.[32][33]
      • 3. Anne Broughton, who married, as his second wife, by dispensation dated 24 May 1539, Sir Thomas Cheyney.[5][34]
      • 4. Elizabeth Broughton, who died unmarried in 1524. There is a monument to her at Chenies.[35][36]
    • Robert Broughton.[35]
    • Margaret Broughton (d. 6 August 1524), who married Henry Everard (d.1541), by whom she had several children, including Elizabeth Everard, who married Sir William Clopton (d. 6 October 1568) of Liston Hall, Essex.[35][12][37][38] After the death of Margaret Broughton, Henry Everard married Lore (née Wentworth), widow of Edward Shaw and daughter of Sir Roger Wentworth by Anne Tyrrell, daughter of Humphrey Tyrrell. She survived him, and married, as her third husband, Francis Clopton (d.1558).[39]
  • Broughton married secondly Dorothy Wentworth,[40] the sister of Sir Richard Wentworth (d. 17 October 1528), and daughter of Sir Henry Wentworth (d. August 1499) by Anne Say, daughter of Sir John Say (d.1478) of Broxbourne. Dorothy Wentworth's sister, Margery Wentworth, married Sir John Seymour, by whom she was the mother of Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour.[41][42][43]
  • From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Broughton_(died_1506) ___________________
  • Sir Henry Wentworth, 4th Lord le Despenser, Sheriff of Norfolk, Suffolk, & Yorkshire1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16
  • M, #48537, b. circa 1448
  • Father Sir Philip Wentworth, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk, Constable of Llanstephan & Clare Castles17,18,19 b. c 1424, d. 18 May 1464
  • Mother Mary Clifford1,17,18,19
  • Sir Henry Wentworth, 4th Lord le Despenser, Sheriff of Norfolk, Suffolk, & Yorkshire was born circa 1448 at of Nettlestead, Suffolk, England; Age 30 in 1478.1,2,5,11 He married Anne Say, daughter of Sir John Say, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Speaker of the House of Commons, Under Treasurer of England and Elizabeth Cheney, before 20 February 1484; They had 2 sons (Sir Richard; & Edward) and 4 daughters (Elizabeth, wife of Roger Darcy, Esq., of Sir Thomas Wyndham, & of Sir John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, 11th Lord FitzWarin; Margery, wife of Sir John Seymour; Dorothy, wife of Sir Robert Broughton; & Jane).1,20,2,4,5,7,9,11,13,14,16 Sir Henry Wentworth, 4th Lord le Despenser, Sheriff of Norfolk, Suffolk, & Yorkshire and Elizabeth Neville obtained a marriage license on 2 October 1494 at Deighton, Yorkshire, England; 2nd marriage for both. No issue.21,22,23,2,3,5,10,11 Sir Henry Wentworth, 4th Lord le Despenser, Sheriff of Norfolk, Suffolk, & Yorkshire left a will on 17 August 1499; Buried at Newhouse Abbey, Lincolnshire.2,5,11 His estate was probated on 27 February 1501.2,5,11
  • Family 1 Anne Say b. c 1453, d. bt 25 Feb 1484 - 22 Oct 1494
  • Children
    • Margery Wentworth+1,2,24,4,5,6,8,25,11,12,13,15 d. Oct 1550
    • Elizabeth Wentworth+26,2,5,9,11,16 d. a 1542
    • Sir Richard Wentworth, 5th Lord le Despenser, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk+2,5,11 b. c 1480, d. 17 Oct 1528
  • Family 2
  • Elizabeth Neville b. 1464, d. Sep 1517
  • Citations
  • [S11575] The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, by Gerald Paget, Vol. I, p. 92.
  • [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 381.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 455.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 110.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 237-238.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 311.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 131.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 230-232.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 389.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 395.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 218.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 327.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 615.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 72.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 210-212.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 432.
  • [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 380-381.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 236.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 217.
  • [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 206-207.
  • [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. IX, p. 93, notes.
  • [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XI, p. 569-571.
  • [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 200-201.
  • [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 611.
  • [S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 82.
  • [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. II, p. 16.
  • From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1615.htm#... ________________________
  • Henry WENTWORTH (Sheriff of Yorkshire)
  • Born: ABT 1444, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
  • Died: BEF 27 Feb 1500/01
  • Buried: Newson Abbey, Lincolnshire, England
  • Notes: De jure 4th Baron Despenser, KB, of Nettlestead; d. BET 1 7 Aug 1499 and 27 Feb 1499/1500, leaving Sir Richard, with other issue (including at least one daughter, Margery, married Sir John Seymour, KB). [Burke's Peerage]; m. (1) 20 Feb 1484 Anne, dau. of Sir John de Saye, Knight, and Elizabeth Cheney, dau. of Lawrence Cheney of Ditton, co. Cambridge. [Magna Charta Sureties].
  • Father: Phillip WENTWORTH (Sir Knight)
  • Mother: Mary CLIFFORD
  • Married 1: Anne SAYE (b. 1453 - d. ABT 1494) (dau. of Sir John Saye of Sawbridgeworth, Knight and Elizabeth Cheney) 20 Feb 1473/4
  • Children:
    • 1. Richard WENTWORTH (Sir Knight)
    • 2. Elizabeth WENTWORTH (C. Bath)
    • 3. Edward WENTWORTH (b. ABT 1470)
    • 4. Jane WENTWORTH (b. ABT 1472)
    • 5. Margery WENTWORTH
    • 6. Dorothy WENTWORTH (b. ABT 1478 - d. BEF 1506)
  • Married 2: Elizabeth NEVILLE (B. Scrope of Masham) 22 Oct 1494, Chapel Manor Hou, Deighton, Yorkshire, England
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WENTWORTH.htm#Henry WENTWORTH (Sheriff of Yorkshire)1 ________________________
  • Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire (1874) Vol. 2 Pg.n258
  • http://www.archive.org/details/pedigreesofcount02fost
    • Pedigree of Wentworth, of Elmsall, Bretton and Baron Wentworth, of Nettlested.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/pedigreesofcount02fost#page/n265/mode...
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/pedigreesofcount02fost#page/n266/mode...
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Dorothy Wentworth's Timeline

1478
1478
Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
1506
1506
Age 28