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Sir Henry Wentworth, of Nettlestead, de jure 4th Lord Despencer, K.B.

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
Death: August 01, 1499 (46-55)
Newson Abbey, Lincolnshire, England
Place of Burial: Lincolnshire, England
Immediate Family:

Son of Philip Wentworth, 2nd Lord Despencer and Mary de Clifford, Lady Despencer
Husband of Elizabeth Neville; Lady Anne Wentworth (Say), Baroness Despencer and Elizabeth Wentworth
Father of Sir Richard Wentworth; Elizabeth Bourchier; Richard Wentworth, 5th Baron Despencer; Dorothy Wentworth; Edward Wentworth and 2 others
Brother of Elizabeth Wentworth; Margaret Cotton and Marjorie Wentworth

Occupation: Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk and Yorkshire, Sheriff of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Yorkshire, Knight, High Sheriff,
Managed by: Jeremy Jed Lyman
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About Henry Wentworth, 4th Baron Despencer

Henry Wentworth

Sir Henry Wentworth of Nettlestead, Suffolk, KB (b. about 1448, died between 17 August 1499 and 27 February 1501), de jure Lord Despenser, was the grandfather of King Henry VIII's third Queen, Jane Seymour, and the great-grandfather of Jane's son, King Edward VI.

Sir Henry Wentworth was born about 1448, the only son and heir of the courtier Sir Philip Wentworth (b. about 1424) of Nettlestead and his wife, Mary Clifford, and the grandson of Roger Wentworth and Margery, Lady Roos. In taking as her second husband Roger Wentworth, a younger son of John Wentworth of Elmsall, Yorkshire, Sir Philip's mother, Margery, Lady Roos, who was the daughter and heiress of Philip, Lord Despenser, was said to have 'married herself dishonourably without licence from the King'.[1] 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]

Sir Henry Wentworth was pardoned in 1462. Two years later his father's lands were restored to him by Parliament. In 1475 he went to France with the army of King 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.[3]

Sir Henry Wentworth's will, made on 17 August 1499, was proved 27 February 1501. He was buried in Newhouse Abbey, Lincolnshire.[4]

Sir Henry 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, Sir Richard and Edward, and four daughters:[5]

  • Elizabeth Wentworth (died after 22 September 1545), married firstly, Sir Roger Darcy of Danbury, Essex; married secondly, as his second wife, Sir Thomas Wyndham of Felbrigg, Norfolk (died 1522),[6] Vice-Admiral and councillor to Henry VIII, by whom she had one son; and married thirdly, as his third wife, John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath[7]
  • Margery Wentworth (c. 1478 - c. October 1550), married before 1500 Sir John Seymour. Their daughter, Jane, was Henry VIII's third Queen and the mother of King Edward VI.[8]
  • Dorothy Wentworth, who married Sir Richard Broughton
  • Jane Wentworth

Sir Henry Wentworth married secondly, by licence dated 22 October 1594, Elizabeth Neville (d. September 1517), the second daughter of Sir John Neville, Marquess of Montagu, and widow of Thomas, Lord Scrope of Masham and Upsall (d. 3 April 1493). They had no issue.[9]

From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wentworth

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  • 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)
  • https://archive.org/details/wentworthgenealo01inwent
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n170/mo...
    • .... etc.
    • 2. Sir Roger Wentworth, who married Margery, relict of John Lord de Roos (who died without issue, 22 March, 1421-2). She was daughter and heir of Philip le Despencer, of Nettlestead,*
    • .... etc.
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n172/mo...
    • County Suffolk, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Tiptoft, of Nettlestead, and relict of William Scrope, Earl of Wiltshire. Sir Roger settled at Nettlestead, and died before his wife. Lady Margery died 20 April 1478. Her Will was dated 30 August, 1477, and proved 28 May 1478. He was settled at Nettlestead, and became ancestor of the Barons Wentworth of Nettlestead and the Earl of Cleveland. His direct line terminated in Lady Anne Wentworth, who married John, Lord Lovelace. He was also the ancestor of the Wentworths of Gosfield, in the county of Essex, members of which family were scattered over the kingdom, especially in the counties of Bucks, Oxford, and Dorset. From Lady Anne Wentworth, who married John, Lord Lovelace, was descended Anna Isabel (born 1794, and died 16 May, 1860),
    • .... etc.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n174/mo...
    • daughter and heir of Sir Ralph Milbanke and grand daughter of Sir Edward Noel, Baronet, Lord Wentworth. She married, in 1815, the celebrated poet, Lord Byron, whose name was George Gordon, and left an only child, Ada, who married Earl Lovelace, and died, in 1852, leaving children.
  • Sir Henry Wentworth of Nettlestead in Suffolk, from whom he who was Lord Wentworth, in 1590, was descended, had a daughter, Margaret, who married Sir John Seymour, who died in 1530. They had .... etc.
  • The titles of the descendants of Sir Roger* Wentworth, in the
    • * Sir Roger had the following issue:
    • 1. Sir Philip, of whom hereafter.
    • .... etc.
  • 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:--
    • 1. Sir Henry Wentworth, Kt., of whom hereafter.
    • 2. Margaret, who married Sir Thomas Cotton, Kt., of Landwade, Co. Cambridge.
    • 3. Another daughter, who married St. Rose Constable, Kt., of Flamborough, Co. York.
  • The line was continued by
  • (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 mar-
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n176/mo...
  • .... etc.
  • ried 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:
    • 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
  • .... etc. ________________________
  • Sir Henry Wentworth, 4th Lord le Despenser, Sheriff of Norfolk, Suffolk, & Yorkshire1,2
  • M, b. circa 1448
  • Father Sir Philip Wentworth, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk3 b. c 1424, d. 18 May 1464
  • Mother Mary Clifford1,3
  • 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 He married Anne Saye, daughter of Sir John Saye, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Speaker of the House of Commons. and Elizabeth Cheney, before 20 February 1484; They had 2 sons (Richard & Edward) and 4 daughters (Elizabeth, Margery, Dorothy, & Jane).1,4,2 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 spouse for both. They had no issue.5,6,7,2 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 His estate was probated on 27 February 1501.2
  • Family 1 Anne Saye b. c 1453, d. b 22 Oct 1494
  • Children
    • Margaret Wentworth+1,2,8 d. Oct 1550
    • Elizabeth Wentworth+9,2 d. a 1542
    • Sir Richard Wentworth, 5th Lord le Despenser, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk+2 b. c 1480, d. 17 Oct 1528
  • Family 2 Elizabeth Neville b. 1464, d. Sep 1517
  • Citations
  • 1.[S11575] The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, by Gerald Paget, Vol. I, p. 92.
  • 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 381.
  • 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 380-381.
  • 4.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 206-207.
  • 5.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. IX, p. 93, notes.
  • 6.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XI, p. 569-571.
  • 7.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 200-201.
  • 8.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 611.
  • 9.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. II, p. 16.
  • 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 __________________
  • Sir Henry Wentworth1
  • M, #107610
  • Last Edited=16 Jan 2010
  • Sir Henry Wentworth is the son of Sir Philip Wentworth and Mary Clifford. He married Anne Say, daughter of Sir John Say and Elizabeth Cheney. He died between 17 August 1499 and 27 February 1501.
  • Sir Henry Wentworth was invested as a Knight, Order of the Bath (K.B.).2 He lived at Nettlestead, Suffolk, England.1
  • Children of Sir Henry Wentworth and Anne Say
    • 1.Margaret Wentworth+1
    • 2.Elizabeth Wentworth+3 d. a 22 Sep 1545
  • Citations
  • 1.[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 153. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
  • 2.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1289. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
  • 3.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 16. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
  • From: http://thepeerage.com/p10761.htm#i107610 ____________________________
  • Sir Henry Wentworth1
  • M, #177910
  • Last Edited=22 May 2008
  • Child of Sir Henry Wentworth
    • 1.Elizabeth Wentworth+1
  • Citations
  • 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume IV, page 78. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
  • From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p17791.htm#i177910 _____________________
  • Sir Henry Wentworth1
  • M, #1009, b. before 1484
  • Last Edited=22 May 2004
  • Sir Henry Wentworth was born before 1484. He married, secondly, Lady Elizabeth Neville, daughter of Sir John Neville, 1st and last Marquess of Montagu and Isabel Ingaldesthorpe, circa October 1494.1
  • Citations
  • 1.[S8] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 16. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition.
  • From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p101.htm#i1009 _______________________
  • Sir Henry Wentworth
  • Birth: 1448, England
  • Death: 1499, England
  • Knight of Nettlestead, Knight of Bath, of Goxhill, Lincolnshire, of Parlington and Pontefract, Yorkshire, of London. Esquie of the Household, Knight of the Body, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Sheriff of Yorkshire.
  • Son and heir to Sir Philip Wentworth and Mary Clifford, grandson of Sir Roger Wentworth and Margery Despenser, Sir John Clifford and Elizabeth Percy. Direct descendant of Henry Hotspur and Sir Hugh le Depenser.
  • Husband of Anne Say, daughter of Sir John Say and Elizabeth Cheyne. They had two sons and four daughters; Sir Richard, Edward, Elizabeth wife of Roger Darcy and Sir Thomas Wyndham and Sir John Bouchier, Margery wife of Sir John Seymour and mother of Queen Jane Seymour, Dorothy wife of Sir Robert Broughton and Jane.
  • Secondly, he was the husband of Elizabeth Neville, daughter of Sir John Neville and Isabel Ingaldesthorpe, widow of Sir Thomas Scrope who died in 1493. They were married in Deighton, Yorkshire by licence dated 22 Oct 1494, and had no issue.
  • Sir Henry was in the King's army in France in 14745.
  • Sir Henry left a will dated 17 August 1499, proved 27 Feb 1501, and was buried at Newhouse Abbey, Lincolnshire.
  • Family links:
  • Parents:
  • Philip de Wentworth (1423 - 1464)
  • Mary Clifford Wentworth (1421 - 1478)
  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Neville Wentworth (____ - 1517)
  • Children:
    • Margery Wentworth Seymour (1478 - 1550)*
    • Richard Wentworth (1480 - 1528)*
  • Sibling:
  • Margaret Wentworth Cotton (____ - 1478)*
  • Henry Wentworth (1448 - 1499)
  • Burial: Newhouse Abbey, Brocklesby, West Lindsey District, Lincolnshire, England
  • Find A Grave Memorial# 109859396
  • From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=109859396 __________________________
  • Name Sir Henry Wentworth, 4th Lord Despenser [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22]
  • Born Cal 1448 of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location [23]
  • Died Bef 27 Feb 1500-1501 [24]
  • Buried Newhouse Abbey, Lincolnshire, England [4]
  • Father Sir Philip Wentworth, Knight, b. Abt 1424, of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. 18 May 1464, Middleham, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 40 years)
  • Mother Mary de Clifford, b. Abt 1422, of, Appleby, Westmorland, England d. 4 Oct 1478 (Age ~ 56 years)
  • Family 1 Anne Say, b. Abt 1453, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. 1515 (Age ~ 62 years)
  • Married 20 Feb 1484 [4, 26]
  • Children
    • 1. Sir Richard Wentworth, 5th Lord Wentworth, b. Cal 1480, of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. 17 Oct 1528 (Age ~ 48 years)
    • 2. Elizabeth Wentworth, Countess of Bath, b. of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. Aft 1542
    • 3. Margery Wentworth, b. Abt 1489, of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. Oct 1550 (Age ~ 61 years)
    • 4. Dorothy Wentworth, b. Abt 1491, of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. Bef 1506 (Age ~ 15 years)
    • 5. Edward Wentworth, b. Abt 1492, of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. 1501 (Age ~ 9 years)
    • 6. Jane Wentworth, b. Abt 1494, of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. Aft 1501 (Age ~ 8 years)
  • Family 2 Elizabeth Neville, Baroness Scrope, b. Cal 1464, of, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 30 Sep 1515 (Age ~ 51 years)
  • Married 22 Oct 1494 Chapel Manor House, Deighton, Yorkshire, England [3, 4, 23] Type: License CONDITION: This couple had no children.
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  • 11. PHILIP WENTWORTH, Knt., of Nettlestead, Suffolk, Usher of the King's Chamber, King's Sergeant, Esquire of the Body, King's Carver, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1459-60, Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, Constable of Llanstephan and Clare Castles, Chief Steward of the honour of Clare, son and heir apparent, born about 1424. He married MARY CLIFFORD, daughter of John Clifford, K.G., 7th Lord Clifford, by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry 'Hotspur' Percy, L.G., K.B. [see CLIFFORD 10 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Henry, K.G., and two daughters, Margaret (wife of Thomas Cotton, Esq.) and Elizabeth. In 1458 he and his mother, Margery, Lady Roos, and their children "of both sexes" received a papal indult that a confessor of their choice may absolve them from all their vows and grant them absolution for their sins. SIR PHILIP WENTWORTH served in the army of King Henry VI, and died intestate 18 May 1464, being beheaded at Middleham, Yorkshire, after the Battle of Hexham, where he had been taken prisoner by the Yorkists. His wife, Mary, was buried at the Friars Minor at Ipswich, Suffolk.
    • .... etc.
  • Children of Philip Wentworth, Knt., by Mary Clifford:
    • i. HENRY WENTWORTH, K.B. [see next].
    • ii. ELIZABETH WENTWORTH, married (as his 2nd wife) MARTIN DE LA SEE (or AT SEE), Knt., of Barmston, Yorkshire, son of Brian de la See, Esq., of Little Coates, Lincolnshire, and Barmston, Yorkshire, by Maud, daughter and heiress of John Monceaux, Esq. He was born about 1420. They had one son, Martin and two daughters, Jane (or Joan) and Elizabeth. .... etc.
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  • 12. HENRY WENTWORTH, K.B., dejure 4th Lord Despenser, of Nettlestead, Suffolk, Goxhill, Lincolnshire, Parlington and Pontefract, Yorkshire, and of London, Esquire of the Household, Knight of the Body, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1481-2, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1489-90, 1492, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire, 1491-2, son and heir, born about 1448 (aged 30 in 1478). He was pardoned in 1462, and restored to his father's lands by Parliament in 1464. He married (1st) ANNE SAY, daughter of John Say, Knt., of Baas (in Broxbourne), Little Berkhamstead, Periers (in Cheshunt), and Sawbridgeworth, Herfordshire, Hooks and Pinnacles (in Waltham Holy Cross) and Lawford, Essex, etc. Keeper of Westminster Palace, Squire of the Body, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Privy Councillor, Under Treasurer of England, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire and for Hertfordshire, Speaker of the House of Commons, by his 1st wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Laurence Cheyne, Esq. [see STRATTON 9 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Richard, Knt., and Edward, and four daughters, Elizabeth, Margery, Dorothy (wife of Robert Broughton, Knt.), and Jane. He went in the king's army to France in 1475. His wife, Anne, was a legatee in the 1478 will of her father. She was living 25 Feb. 1483/4. In 1493 he and his cousins, John Scrope, 5th Lord Scrope of Bolton, and John Scrope, Knt., of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, successfully recovered the manor of Harston, Cambridgeshire, as heirs general of Robert de Tibetot, Knt., 3rd Lord Tibetot. He married (2nd) at Deighton, Yorkshire by license dated 22 Oct. 1494 ELIZABETH NEVILLE, widow of Thomas Scrope, 6th Lord Scrope of Masham and Upsall (died 23 April 1493), and 2nd daughter of John Neville, K.G., Earl of Northumberland, afterwards Marquess of Montagu, by Isabel, daughter and heiress of Edmund Ingaldesthorpe, Knt. [see INGALDESTHORPE 10 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. She was co-heiress in 1483 to her brother, George Neville, formerly Duke of Bedford. SIR HENRY WENTWORTH left a will
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  • dated 17 Aug. 1499, proved 27 Feb. 1500/1 (P.C.C. 20 Moone). He was buried in Newhouse Abbey, Lincolnshire. His widow, Elizabeth, Lady Scrope, died in Sept. 1517, and was buried with her 1st husband at Black Friars, Ludgate, London. She left a will dated 7 March 1513/4 to 13 July 1517, proved 9 Dec. 1521 (P.C.C. 21 Maynwaryng).
    • .... etc.
  • Children of Henry Wentworth, K.B., by Anne Say:
    • i. RICHARD WENTWORTH, Knt. [see next].
    • ii. ELIZABETH WENTWORTH, married (1st) ROGER DARCY, Esq., of Danbury, Essex [see WYNDHAM 12]; (2nd THOMAS WYNDHAM, Knt., of Felbrigg, Norfolk [see WYNDHAM 12]; (3rd) JOHN BOURCHIER, K.B., 1st Earl of Bath, 11th Lord Fitz Warin [see WYNDHAM 12].
    • iii. MARGERY WENTWORTH, married JOHN SEYMOUR, Knt., of Wolf Hall (in Savernake), Wiltshire [see MALET 13].139
  • 13. RICHARD WENTWORTH, Knt., de jure 5th Lord Despenser, of Nettlestead, Suffolk Harston, Cambridgeshire, etc. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1509-10, 1516-17, born about 1480 (aged 38 in 1518). He married ANNE TYRRELL, daughter of James Tyrrell, K.B., of Gipping, Suffolk, by Anne, daughter of John Arundell, Knt. [see MORLEY 11 for her ancesttry]. They had .... etc. ________________________________________
  • Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
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  • . . . Thomas Wyndham, Knt., and John Bourchier, K.B., 1st Earl of Bath), Margery, Dorothy (wife of Robert Broughton, Knt.), Jane. He went in the King's army to France in 1475. He married (2nd) at Deighton, Yorkshire by License dated 22 Oct. 1494 ELIZABETH NEVILLE, widow of Thomas Scrope, Lord Scrope of Masham and Upsall (died 23 April 1493), and 2nd daughter of John Neville, Knt., K.G., Marquess of Montagu, by Isabel, daughter and heiress of Edmund Ingaldesthorpe, Knt. They had no issue. SIR HENRY WENTWORTH left a will dated 17 August 1499, proved 27 Feb 1500/1 (P.C.C. 20 Moone). He was buried in Newhouse Abbey, Lincolnshire. His widow, Elizabeth, died testate (P.C.C. 21 Maynwaryng) in Sept. 1517, and was buried with her 1st husband at Black Friars, Ludgate, London.
    • 13. RICHARD WENTWORTH, Knt., de jure 5th Lord Despenser, of Nettlestead, Suffolk, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, born about 1480 (aged 38 in 1518). He married ANNE TYRRELL, daughter of James Tyrrell, Knt., K.B., of Gipping, Suffolk, by Anne, daughter of John Arundell, Knt. [see MORLEY 11 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Thomas, Knt., Philip, and Richard, and five daughters, Anne, Elizabeth, Margery (wife of Christopher Glemham, Esq., and Francis Colby, Esq.), Dorothy (wife of Lionel Tollemache, Esq.), and Thomasine (wife of Richard Pinder). He was knighted in 1509 by King Henry VIII on the eve of the king's Coronation. SIR RICHARD WENTWORTH died testate (P.C.C. 40 Porch) 17 Oct. 1528, and was buried at Friars Minor, Ipswich. His widow, Anne, was living 11 Nov. 1529. _____________________________
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  • 11. ELIZABETH de PERCY (36-11); m. 1404, JOHN de CLIFFORD (113-9).
  • 12. MARY de CLIFFORD; m. Sir Philip Wentworth, son of Sir Roger Wentworth, Knt., of North Elmsall, and MARGERY DESPENSER (74-10). (CP IV, 292).
  • 13. SIR HENRY WENTWORTH, KNT., Lord le Despencer, d. betw. 17 Aug. 1499 & 27 Feb. 1500/1, of Nettlestead; m. (1) 20 Feb. 1484, Anne, dau. of Sir John de Saye, Knt., and Elizabeth Cheyne, dau. of Lawrence Cheyne, of Ditton, co. Cambridge. (CP IV, 292-293).
  • 14. SIR RICHARD WENTWORTH, Lord le Despencer, b. c. 1485, d. 17 Oct. 1528; m. Anne, dau. of Sir John Tyrell, Knt., of Gippinge, Suffolk, by Anne, dau. of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, Cornwall. (CP IV, 294).
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  • Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 40
  • Neville, John (d.1471) by James Tait
  • NEVILLE, JOHN, Marquis of Montagu and Earl of Northumberland (d. 1471), third son of Richard Neville, earl of Salisbury [q. v.], and Alice, daughter and heiress of Thomas de Montacute or Montagu, fourth earl of Salisbury [q. v.], was born between 1428 and 1435. His brothers, Richard Neville [q. v.], ‘the king-maker,’ and George Neville, archbishop of York [q. v.], are separately noticed. .... etc.
  • He married, on 25 April, 1457 Isabel, daughter and coheiress of Sir Edmund Ingoldesthorpe of Borough Green, near Newmarket, by Joan, sister and eventually heiress of John Tiptoft, earl of Worcester (Paston Letters, i. 416; Rot. Parl. v. 387; cf. Doyle). By her he had two sons and five daughters .... etc.
  • The daughters were: (1) Anne, who married Sir William Stonor of Oxfordshire; (2) Elizabeth, married first to Thomas, lord Scrope of Masham (d. 1493), and secondly, before 1496, to Sir Henry Wentworth, who died in 1500 (she died in 1515); (3) Margaret, .... etc.
  • From: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Neville,_John_(d.1471)_(DNB00) ________________________________
  • Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire (1874) Vol. 2 Pg.n258
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    • Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, Earls of Strafford (Watson Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham), Vernon Wentworth of Wentworth Castle, and Wentworth of Woolley.
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    • Pedigree of Wentworth, of Elmsall, Bretton and Baron Wentworth, of Nettlested.
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  • Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 60 by Albert Frederick Pollard
  • WENTWORTH, THOMAS, first Baron Wentworth of Nettlestead (1501–1551), was descended from an ancient Yorkshire family, two branches of which were settled at Wentworth-Woodhouse, and North Elmsall. Thomas Wentworth, the great earl of Strafford [q. v.], belonged to the former branch (see Foster, Yorkshire Pedigrees). Roger Wentworth (d. 1452), younger son of John Wentworth of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, acquired the manor of Nettlestead, Suffolk, in right of his wife Margery (1397–1478), daughter of Sir Philip Despenser and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert de Tiptoft or Tibetot, last baron Tiptoft of the first creation and lord of the manor of Nettlestead. Roger Wentworth's younger son, Henry (d. 1482), was by his first wife ancestor of the Wentworths of Gosfield, Essex, and by his second wife of the Wentworths of Lillingstone Lovell, Oxfordshire; to the latter branch belonged Paul Wentworth [q. v.], Peter Wentworth (1530?–1596) [q. v.], and Sir Peter Wentworth (1592–1675) [q. v.] Roger's elder son, Sir Philip, was father of Sir Henry Wentworth (d. 1499), whose daughter Margery (d. 1550) married Sir John Seymour (d. 1536) of Wolfhall, and was mother of Queen Jane Seymour, of Protector Somerset, and grandmother of Edward VI. Sir Henry Wentworth's son, Sir Richard Wentworth (d. 1528), was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1509 and 1517, was knighted in 1512, served at the battle of Spurs in 1513, was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520, and died on 17 Oct. 1528. He married Anne, daughter of Sir James Tyrrell [q. v.], the supposed murderer of the princes in the Tower, and was father of the subject of this article.
  • .... etc.
  • [Letters and Papers of Henry VIII; Acts of the Privy Council, ed. Dasent; Chron. of Calais, Machyn's Diary, and Wriothesley's Chron. (Camden Soc.); Lit. Remains of Edward VI (Roxburghe Club); Hamilton Papers; Hist. MSS. Comm. 4th Rep. App. p. 178; Lords' Journals; Burnet's Hist. of the Reformation; Strype's Works; Davy's Suffolk Collections in Brit. Museum Addit. MS. 19154; Rutton's Three Branches of the Wentworth Family; Burke's Extinct Peerage and G. E. C[okayne]'s Complete Peerages.]
  • From: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wentworth,_Thomas_(1501-1551)_(DNB00) _____________
  • ELIZABETH NEVILLE (d.c.1518)
  • Elizabeth Neville was the daughter of John Neville, marquess Montagu (1428-April 14, 1471) and Isabel Ingoldsthorpe (d. May 20, 1476). She married Thomas, Lord Scrope of Masham and Upsall (d.1494), by whom she had one child, Alice (d.1492). Elizabeth's second husband was Sir Henry Wentworth (d.1499/1500). Elizabeth made her will on March 7, 1513/14. She gave instructions for her body to be buried in the Blackfriars in London, beside her first husband, and for a stone to be put over her grave with the images of herself, her first husband, and their daughter upon it. She ordered a second tomb for her second husband in Newsom Abbey, Lincolnshire, and a third for her father and mother in Bisham Abbey, Berkshire. She made several bequests to specific women. To Mary Grey, "daughter in base unto Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset," she left "my bed that the said Lord Marquess was wont to lie in and all the parcel that belongeth thereo and all the apparel of the same chamber." To her sister, Lucy Neville, Lady Browne, she left "a primer and a psalter, which book I had of the gift of the most excellent princess King Henry the Seventh his mother." She left two servants, Katheryn Clyfton and Dorathe Danby, twenty marks apiece. And to her niece, Lucy Browne (d.1557), wife of John Cutte or Cutts (1507-1528), she left land in Cambridgeshire. She also made John Cutte and Lucy Browne her executors. The will was not proved until December 9, 1521.
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  • Three Branches of the Family of Wentworth: I. Wentworth of Nettlestead ... By William Loftie Rutton
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  • WILLIAM WENTWORTH of Wentworth Woodhouse, co. York ; died 1308. = Isabella, dau. and coheir of William Pollington of Pollington, co. York ; ch:
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  • Roger Wentworth, Esq., of Nettlestead, co. Suffolk Jure ux. Younger son of John Wentworth, of North Elmsall, Co. York. He died 21 Octobert 1452, and was buried in the church, now demolished, of the Friars Minors (or Grey Friars), Ipswich. = Margery, da. and heiress of Sir Philip Despenser, Knt. of Nettlestead, co. Suffolk, and of Goushill, co. Lincolnshire (by Elizabeth, da. and heiress of Robert, Lord Tibetot, of Nettlestead), widow of John Lord Roos, slain in France 1421. She died 20 April 1478, aet. 81, and by her Will directed her burial to be in the chapel of St. Margaret and St. Bernard, Queen's College, Cambridge. : ch: 2. Sir Philip Wentworth (m. Mary Clifford), Henry (m. Elizabeth Howard & Joan Fitz Simon), Thomas (priest), Margaret (m. Sir William Hopton), Elizabeth (m. John Calthorpe), Agnes (m. Sir Robert Constable) Wentworth.
    • Sir Philip Wentworth, Knt., of Nettlestead, co. Suffolk, Sheriff of cos. Norfolk and Suffolk, 1447 and 1459. Knight of the Shire 1449, 1453, 1459. In the army of King Henry VI. Attainted 1 Edward IV. Taken prisoner at battle of Hexham. Executed 18 May 1464. ? Bur. at Newsam Abbey, co. Lindoln. Died in lifetime of his mother, Margery, Lady Roos of Nettlestead. = Mary, da. of John, Baron Clifford, of Appleby, co. Westmoreland and of Skipton, co. York. Slain in France, 1422. ; ch: Sir Henry (m. Anne Say & Elizabeth Nevill), Margaret (m. Thomas Cotton) Wentworth.
      • Sir Henry Wentworth, Knt., of Nettlestead and of Knaresborough, co. York. Sheriff of cos. Norfolk and Suffolk, 1482; Constable of Queenborough 1483. Sheriff of co. York 1490 and 1492. Died August 1499; bur. at Newsam Abbey, co. Lincoln. = Anne, da. of Sir John Say, Knt., of Broxbourne, and of Sawbridgeworth, co. Hertford, who died 1478. 2nd Wife, Elizabeth Lady Scrope, widow of Thomas, Lord Scrope, of Masham and Upsal, co. York, and da. of John Nevill, Marquis of Montagu. She died 1515, and by her will (proved 1521) directed her burial to be with her first husband at Blackfriars, London. ; ch: Sir Richard (m. Anne Tyrrell), Edward, Jane, Margery (m. Sir John Seymour) Wentworth, (Pg.139 Elizabeth (m. Roger Darcy & Sir Thomas Wyndham & John Bourchier), Dorothy (m. Sir Robert Broughton) Wentworth)
        • .... etc. _____________________________

Knight of Nettlestead, Knight of Bath, of Goxhill, Lincolnshire, of Parlington and Pontefract, Yorkshire, of London. Esquie of the Household, Knight of the Body, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Sheriff of Yorkshire.

Son and heir to Sir Philip Wentworth and Mary Clifford, grandson of Sir Roger Wentworth and Margery Despenser, Sir John Clifford and Elizabeth Percy. Direct descendant of Henry Hotspur and Sir Hugh le Depenser.

Husband of Anne Say, daughter of Sir John Say and Elizabeth Cheyne. They had two sons and four daughters; Sir Richard, Edward, Elizabeth wife of Roger Darcy and Sir Thomas Wyndham and Sir John Bouchier, Margery wife of Sir John Seymour and mother of Queen Jane Seymour, Dorothy wife of Sir Robert Broughton and Jane.

Secondly, he was the husband of Elizabeth Neville, daughter of Sir John Neville and Isabel Ingaldesthorpe, widow of Sir Thomas Scrope who died in 1493. They were married in Deighton, Yorkshire by licence dated 22 Oct 1494, and had no issue.

Sir Henry was in the King's army in France in 14745.

Sir Henry left a will dated 17 August 1499, proved 27 Feb 1501, and was buried at Newhouse Abbey, Lincolnshire

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Henry Wentworth, 4th Baron Despencer's Timeline

1448
1448
Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
1470
1470
Of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
1470
Nestlestead, Suffolk, England
1472
1472
Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
1475
1475
Nettlestead, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
1478
July 22, 1478
Ipswich, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom)
1478
Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
1499
August 1, 1499
Age 51
Newson Abbey, Lincolnshire, England