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Lady Anne Wentworth (Say), Baroness Despencer

Also Known As: "Anne Say"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
Death: before October 1494
Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir John Say, Knight, MP, PC and Elizabeth Cheney, Lady Say
Wife of Henry Wentworth, 4th Baron Despencer
Mother of Elizabeth Bourchier; Richard Wentworth, 5th Baron Despencer; Dorothy Wentworth; Edward Wentworth; Margery Wentworth, Lady Seymour and 1 other
Sister of Thomas Saye; Sir William Say, Kt.; Elizabeth Sampson; Mary Calthorpe and Katherine Bassingbourne
Half sister of Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey

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About Lady Anne Wentworth (Say), Baroness Despencer

Baroness Anne Say Wentworth

  • BIRTH 1450 Broxbourne, Broxbourne Borough, Hertfordshire, England
  • DEATH 22 Oct 1492 (aged 41–42) Nettlestead, Maidstone Borough, Kent, England
  • BURIAL Newhouse Abbey Brocklesby, West Lindsey District, Lincolnshire, England
  • MEMORIAL ID 229412387 Infor. by Anne Shurtleff Stevens

Anne Say Wentworth, Baroness Le Despenser was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Cheney Say. She married Henry Wentworth and they had two sons and four daughters.

Gravesite Details
Possibly buried at Newhouse Abbey, Brocklesby. Need assistance.

Family Members
Parents
John Say 1415–1478
Elizabeth Cheney Say 1424–1473

Spouse
Henry Wentworth 1448–1499 (m. 1460)

Siblings
William Say 1452–1529
Elizabeth de Say 1455–1484

Half Siblings
Elizabeth Tilney Howard 1445–1497

Children
Margery Wentworth Seymour unknown–1550 m. Sir John Seymour
Richard Wentworth 1480–1528
Edward Wentworth
Elizabeth Wentworth m. Roger D'Arcy
Sir Thomas Wyndham and Sir John Bouchier )
Dorothy Wentworth m. Sir Robert Broughton
Jane. Wentworth

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/229412387/anne-wentworth

Additional Data

  • Anne Say1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
  • F, #38996, b. circa 1453, d. between 25 February 1484 and 22 October 1494
  • Father Sir John Say, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Speaker of the House of Commons, Under Treasurer of England1,2,3,4,5,12,7,8,9,13,11 b. c 1425, d. 12 Apr 1478
  • Mother Elizabeth Cheney1,2,3,5,12,8,13 b. c 1422, d. 25 Sep 1473
  • Anne Say was born circa 1453 at of Broxbourne, Little Berkhampstead, & Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England.1,14,3 She married Sir Henry Wentworth, 4th Lord le Despenser, Sheriff of Norfolk, Suffolk, & Yorkshire, son of Sir Philip Wentworth, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk, Constable of Llanstephan & Clare Castles and Mary Clifford, 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).1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 Anne Say died between 25 February 1484 and 22 October 1494.1,3,5,8
  • Family Sir Henry Wentworth, 4th Lord le Despenser, Sheriff of Norfolk, Suffolk, & Yorkshire b. c 1448
  • Children
    • Margery Wentworth+1,3,15,4,5,16,8,9 d. Oct 1550
    • Elizabeth Wentworth+17,3,5,7,8,11 d. a 1542
    • Sir Richard Wentworth, 5th Lord le Despenser, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk+3,5,8 b. c 1480, d. 17 Oct 1528
  • 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. 206-207.
  • [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 381.
  • [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. IV, p. 131.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 389.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 218.
  • [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. 432.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 129-130.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 70-71.
  • [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 207.
  • [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.
  • http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1298.htm#... _____________________
  • Anne Say1
  • F, #3337, d. before 22 October 1494
  • Last Edited=11 Apr 2012
  • Anne Say was the daughter of Sir John Say and Elizabeth Cheney.1 She married Sir Henry Wentworth, son of Sir Philip Wentworth and Mary Clifford. She died before 22 October 1494.
  • Her married name became Wentworth.
  • Children of Anne Say and Sir Henry Wentworth
    • Margaret Wentworth+ d. Oct 1550
    • Elizabeth Wentworth+1 d. a 22 Sep 1545
    • Sir Richard Wentworth+
  • Citations
  • [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://www.thepeerage.com/p334.htm#i3337 ______________________
  • Name Anne Say [1, 2, 3]
  • Born Abt 1453 Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
  • Died 1515 [1]
  • Father Sir John de Say, d. 12 Apr 1478
  • Mother Elizabeth Cheyne, b. Abt 1428, of, Fenne Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England d. 25 Sep 1473 (Age ~ 45 years)
  • Family Sir Henry Wentworth, 4th Lord Despenser, b. Cal 1448, of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. Bef 27 Feb 1500-1501 (Age ~ 53 years)
  • Married 20 Feb 1484 [1, 4]
  • 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)
  • Sources
  • [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.
  • [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.
  • [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.
  • [S196] #3613 Yorkshire Pedigrees (1942-1944), Walker, John William, (Publications of the Harleian Society Visitations, volume 94. 3 volumes. London: [Harleian Society], 1942-1944), FHL book 942 B4h; FHL microfilm 162,083 items 1-3., vol. 13 p. 314.
  • [S151] #1732 The Visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634: to Which Are Added Miscellaneous Essex Pedigrees from Various Harleian Manuscripts, and an Appendix... (1870), Metcalfe, Walter C. (Walter Charles), (Publications of the Harleian Society: Visitations, volumes 13-14. 2 volumes. London: [Harleian Society], 1870), FHL book 942 B4h volumes 13-14; FHL microfilm162,049 items 1-2., vol. 13 p. 314.
  • [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. 162.
  • [S23] Magna Carta Ancestry: A study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Richardson, Douglas, (Kimball G. Everingham, editor. 2nd edition, 2011), vol. 4 p. 129.
  • From: https://histfam.familysearch.org//getperson.php?personID=I1861&tree... _____________________________
  • 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 _______________________
  • 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 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 _______________________
  • Elizabeth Cheney (April 1422 – 25 September 1473) was an English aristocrat, who, by dint of her two marriages, was the great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard, three of the wives of King Henry VIII of England, thus making her great-great-grandmother to King Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, and Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Her first husband was Sir Frederick Tilney, and her second husband was Sir John Say, Speaker of the House of Commons. She produced a total of nine children from both marriages.
  • .... etc.
  • Sir John Say and Elizabeth had three sons and four daughters:
    • Sir William Say (1452- 1529), of Baas (in Broxbourne), Bedwell (in Essendon), Bennington, Little Berkhampstead, and Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, Lawford, Essex, Market Overton, Rutland, etc., Burgess (M.P.) for Plympton, Knight of the Shire for Hertfordshire, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, 1478–9, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1482–3, Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire, 1486–1506, and, in right of his 1st wife, of East Lydford, Radstock, Spaxton, Wellesleigh, and Wheathill, Somerset, and, in right of his 2nd wife, of Wormingford Hall (in Wormingford), Essex, Great Munden, Hertfordshire, etc. He married (1st) before 18 November 1472 (date of letters of attorney) Genevieve Hill, daughter/heiress of John Hill, of Spaxton, Somerset. She was still alive in 1478. He married (2nd) shortly after 18 April 1480 Elizabeth Fray, widow of Sir Thomas Waldegrave, by whom he had two daughters, Mary Say and Elizabeth Say.[3] Mary, the eldest daughter married Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex and 6th Baron Bourchier, by whom she had one daughter, Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier.[citation needed]
    • Thomas Say, of Liston Hall, Essex.
    • [Master] Leonard Say, clerk, Rector of Spaxton, Somerset. See Testamenta Eboracensia, 4 (Surtees Soc. 53) (1869): 86–88 (will of Leonard Say, clerk).
    • Anne Say (died 1478/1494), married Henry Wentworth, K.B., 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, 1481–82, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1489–90, 1492, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire, 1491–92, by whom she had issue, including Margery Wentworth, mother of Jane Seymour.
    • Mary Say, married Sir Philip Calthorpe, Knt., by whom she had issue.
    • Margaret Say, married Thomas Sampson, Esq.
    • Katherine Say, married Thomas Bassingbourne.
  • From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cheney,_Lady_Say ______________________
  • Margery Wentworth, also known as Margaret Wentworth (c. 1478[1] – 18 October 1550[2]) was the wife of Sir John Seymour and the mother of Queen Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII of England. She was the grandmother of King Edward VI of England.
  • Margery was born in about 1478, the daughter of Sir Henry Wentworth and Anne Say, daughter of Sir John Say and Elizabeth Cheney.[1][3]
  • .... etc.
  • From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_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.
  • .... etc.
  • 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) ____________________
  • Margery Wentworth Seymour
  • Birth: 1478, England
  • Death: Oct., 1550, England
  • Daughter of Sir Henry Wentworth and Anne Say, granddaughter of Sir Philip Wentworth and Mary Clifford, John Say and Elizabeth Cheyne.
  • Wife of Sir John Seymour, son of John Seymour of Wolfhall, Wiltshire and Elizabeth Darrell. They were married 22 Oct 1494 and had six sons and four daughters, including:
  • .... etc.
  • From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=60740900 __________________
  • Sir Richard Wentworth
  • Birth: 1480, England
  • Death: Oct. 17, 1528, England
  • Knight of Nettlestead, Suffolk, 5th Lord Despenser, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk.
  • Son of Sir Henry Wentworth and Anne Say, grandson of Sir Philip Wentworth and Mary Clifford, Sir John Say and Elizabeth Cheyne.
  • Husband of Anne Tyrrell, daughter of James Tyrrell, Knight of Bath and Anne Arundel. .... etc.
  • From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=109859297 ________________________
  • 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...
  • (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/n175/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 .... etc. ____________________
  • Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&printsec=frontcover&d...
  • Pg.236
  • 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. ________________________________________
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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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    • Pedigree of Wentworth, of Elmsall, Bretton and Baron Wentworth, of Nettlested.
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Anne Say

1448 - 1478

Birth 1448 Broxburn, Hertfordshire, England

Gender Female

Died 1478

Father John Say, b. 1420, , Hertfordshire, England , d. Yes, date unknown

Mother Mrs. John Say, b. 1420, , Hertfordshire, England , d. Yes, date unknown

Family Henry Wentworth, b. Abt 1444, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England , d. Aug 1499

Children

1. Richard Wentworth, b. Abt 1468, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England , d. 17 Oct 1528

	2. Edward Wentworth,   b. Abt 1470, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown

3. Edward Wentworth, b. Abt 1470, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England , d. Yes, date unknown
4. Jane Wentworth, b. Abt 1472, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England , d. Yes, date unknown
5. Jane Wentworth, b. Abt 1472, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England , d. Yes, date unknown
6. Margery Wentworth, b. Abt 1474, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England , d. 1551
7. Margery Wentworth, b. Abt 1474, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England , d. 1551
8. Elizabeth Wentworth, b. Abt 1476, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England , d. Yes, date unknown
9. Dorothy Wentworth, b. Abt 1478, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England , d. Bef 1506
10. Dorothy Wentworth, b. Abt 1478, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England , d. Bef 1506
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Anne Say (b. 1453, d. 1478)
Anne Say was born 1453 in Nettlestead, and died 1478 in Nettlestead. She married Henry Wentworth on Feb 20, 1483/84 in Chapel Manor House, Deighton, Yorkshire, son of Phillip Wentworth and Mary Clifford.

More About Anne Say and Henry Wentworth: Marriage: Feb 20, 1483/84, Chapel Manor House, Deighton, Yorkshire.

Children of Anne Say and Henry Wentworth are:

   +Richard Wentworth, b. 1475, d. Oct 17, 1528.

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Lady Anne Wentworth (Say), Baroness Despencer's Timeline

1453
1453
Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
1470
1470
Nestlestead, Suffolk, England
1470
Of, Nettlestead, 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
1494
October 1494
Age 41
Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
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Also Of, Broxburn, Hertfordshire, England