Richard Wentworth

• THE REFERENCES LIST EITHER RICHARD WAS MARRIED TO CECILIA TANSLEY OR MAUD/MATILDA CLIFFORD, ALSO HE WAS MARRIED TO BOTH. ONE REFERENCE STATES THAT MAUD WAS NOT MARRIED TO RICHARD AT ALL. ____________________________
• Richard Wentworth
• Birth: unknown
• Death: 1449
• Third son of John Wentworth of Elmsall by his wife Agnes, sister and co-heiress of Sir William Dronsfield of West Bretton, Richard had property at West Bretton in Yorkshire [de jure matris] and Everton in Nottinghamshire [de jure uxoris]. Died testate with a will dated Dec. 20, 1447 which was proved May 29, 1449 [Testamenta Eboracensia, II, 137]. His wife Cecily was the daughter and heiress of John Tansley of Everton by his wife Alice.
• Family links:
• Children:
  • Richard Wentworth (____ - 1488)*
• Burial: Everton, Holy Trinity Church, Everton, Bassetlaw District, Nottinghamshire, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 120683972
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=120683972 ______________
• THERE IS A ERROR OR CONFLICT WITH THE DATE OF RICHARD'S WILL, SEVERAL REFERENCES LIST THE DATE AS 20 DEC. 1447.
• Richard Wentworth, Esq.1
• M, b. circa 1410
• Father John Wentworth, Esq. d. a 1413
• Mother Agnes Dornsfield
• Richard Wentworth, Esq. was born circa 1410 at of West Bretton, Yorkshire, England.1 He married Cecily Tansley, daughter of John Tansley and Alice, circa 1435.1 Richard Wentworth, Esq. left a will on 20 December 1477 at of Everton, Nottinghamshire, England.
• Family Cecily Tansley b. c 1412, d. a 20 Dec 1477
• Child
• Richard Wentworth, Esq.+1 b. c 1440
• Citations
• 1.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 635.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3011.htm#... __________________
• THERE IS A ERROR OR CONFLICT WITH THE DATE OF RICHARD'S WILL, SEVERAL REFERENCES LIST THE DATE AS 20 DEC. 1447.
• Richard WENTWORTH of Bretton
• Born: ABT 1380, North Elmshall, Yorkshire, England
• Died: 1477, Bretton Hall, Yorkshire, England
• Father: John WENTWORTH of North Elmsall (Esq.)
• Mother: Agnes DRONSFIELD
• Married: Cecilia TANSLEY (dau. of John Tansley of Everton)
• Children:
  • 1. Richard WENTWORTH
  • 2. William WENTWORTH
  • 3. Thomas WENTWORTH
  • 4. Anne WENTWORTH
  • 5. Isabel WENTWORTH
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WENTWORTH.htm#Richard WENTWORTH of Bretton1 _________________
• Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 11 By Colonial Society of Massachusetts
• http://books.google.com/books?id=Sfw7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=I...?
• Pg.61-71
• Pg. 66
• Richard Wentworth, the father of Matthew last mentioned, married Isabel FitzWilliam ............ Richard Wentworth of Bretton, the father of the last named, married Cecilia, daughter and heir of John Tansley of Everton. His will was dated 20 December, 1447, names his wife executrix, and was probated 29 May, 1449. This Richard was a younger son of John Wentworth of Elmsall, who married one of the heiresses of Dronsfield from whom Richard inherited his Bretton estate. Richard is interesting genealogically because of an extraordinary mistake, or misrepresentation, concerning his marriage. Mr. Clay
• Pg. 67
• gives it as above and make no mention of any other statement. In Flower's visitation, however, taken in 1563-64, while both the sons of Matthew (the great grandsons of this Richard) were still living, Richard's wife is said to have been Maud, Countess of Cambridge. In the visitation by Glover (1584-85) as edited by Foster, Richard's wife is given as Maud, Countess of Cambridge, and second daughter to Thomas, Lord Clifford. Foster in his Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, "authenticated by the members of each family," gives Richard two wives, first Cecilia Tansley, to whom he assigns all the children except son Richard who was, he says, son of "Maud (second wife) Countess of Cambridge, and daughter of Thomas, Lord Clifford, and relict of Richard, Earl of Cambridge (who was beheaded), son of Edmund Duke of York." And he might have added relict of John Nevil, Lord Latimer (d.s.P. 1430). She was, indeed, a very great lady, this widow of the Plantagenet Duke of Cambridge-- he who appears in Shakespeare's Henry V; and it is perfectly clear that she never married this Squire Wentworth. The mystery is how there came to be a "family tradition" among the Wentworths that she was their great grandmother, and how they managed to get the heralds, not much more than a hundred years after her death, to record the invention. Mr. John Wentworth rejected the splendid alliance from his pedigree. He says:
• In some of the accounts of the family he is said to have married Matilda, daughter of Thomas Lord Clifford, and relict of Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge; but the present writer can find no evidence of it, nor in fact that any such person ever existed. On the contrary by his son William Wentworth, in his will distinctly mentions "John Tansley and Dame Alice his wife and their daughter Cecilia my mother."
• This, however, might have been campatible with Mr. Foster's arrangement of two wives. But that excellent and careful antiquary, Mr. Hunter, had long ago shown that Richard Wentworth married Cecilia before Lord Latimer died, and that Cecilia was his
• Pg.68
• wife after the Countess's death. But what did Mr. Wentworth mean by saying of the Countess that he could find no evidence that any such person ever existed? It would seem from this and other things that neither he nor Colonel Chester had consulted Mr. Hunter's Deanery of Doncaster (otherwise called South Yorkshire), quite the best book yet published on that part of England. Mr. Wentworth in writing of his authorities, say:
• The earliest portion of the Wentworth Pedigree rests upon the authority of William Flower, Norroy King of arms, on the the most careful and accurate genealogist ever connected with the College of Arms, who compiled it in the year 1588, and it has ever since remained upon the records of the college, and been accepted not only by that body but by all genealogists as authentic.
• Flower's visitation as he have it in print certainly shows the most extraordinary inaccuracy so far as the Wentworths were concerned, as well in times more remote as in these which fell within a centry of his own time. The earlier generations are not by any means the same as those which Mr. Wentworth gives as from Flower's pedigree of Wentworth in the College of Arms, which would appear to be very much worse. And it is only right to say that while there have been many honorable, careful, and learned men in the College of Arms, there have been also heralds who, like many other needy and avaricious professional genealogist outside the College, have been more or less unscrupulous in their efforts to please the vanity of their employers.
• The father of this Richard who did not marry the countess was John of North Elmsall, who married Agnes, one of the coheirs of the Dronsfield family, according to the two best authorities, Mr Hunter and Mr. Clay, as also Mr. Foster and Mr. Wentworth, but
• Pg. 69
• the visitation pedigrees as we have them of Flower and of Glover insert another John between -- namely, he who married a Beaumont and who is according to better authorities, the brother, not the father, of Richard. We may note by the way that it was Roger, brother of Richard, who founded the family of Nettlestead by marrying the widow of Lord Ros, who became heiress of the Despencers, for which marriage he was in trouble with the Privy Council. _________________________
• Heraldic visitation of the northern counties in 1530 By Thomas Tonge, William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe
• http://books.google.com/books?id=swQVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=J...
• Pg. 85
• THIS YS THE PETIGRE OF SIR THOMAS WENTWORTH OF WEST BRETTON, KNYGHT.
• ARMS. "Syr Thomas Wentworth." Quarterly.
• I. IV. - Sable, between three leopards' heads a chevron or, charged with a mullet gules.
• II. III. - Paly of six, argent and sable, on a bend gules three mullets or.
• IMPALEMENT. Sable, between three leopards' heads a chevron or, charged with a crescent gules.
• RICHARD WENTWORTH1 maried Isabell, doughter of Syr William Fytz Willyam of Sprodbrough: and by her had yssue, Mathew, son and heyre; John, ijde son; Willyam, iijde son; Robert, iiijth son; Amor, vte son.
• 1. Son and heir of Richard Wentworth of Bretton. who was third son of John Wentworth of Elmsal, by Agnes, the coheir of Dronsfield. Her arms occur as in the quartering, on the seal of John de Dronsfield in 38 Edw. III. The estate has descended to W. Blackett Beaumont, esq., of Bretton Hall. __________________________
• Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of ..., Volume 1 By William Richard Cutter
• http://books.google.com/books?id=OU0k2d8nl3IC&pg=PA493&lpg=PA493&dq...
• https://archive.org/details/genealogicalpers00cutt
• https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalpers00cutt#page/492/mode/1up
• Few American families have been able to trace their ancestry in England. .... Therefore, the history of the Wentworth family in England as well as America, well authenticated at every step, is a monument to the ability, skill and patience of the family historian, Dr. John Wentworth, as well as a source of satisfaction and pride to all members of the Wentworth family.
• (I) Reginald Wentworth, or as given in the original spelling, Rynald de Wynterwade, was living at the time of the Norman Conquest, A. D. 1066. At that time there were no surnames. He was merely Reginald of the lordship of Wentworth, a place in the wapentake of Strafford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Wentworth is in the parish Wath-upon-Dearn, nine miles from Sheffield. The family of Reginald was Saxon.
• (II) Henry Wentworth, son of Reginald, succeeded his father.
• (III) Richard Wentworth, son of Henry, was succeeded by his son.
• (IV) Michael Wentworth, son of Richard, was succeeded by his son.
• (V) Henry Wentworth, son of Michael, was succeeded by his son.
• (VI) Hugh Wentworth, son of Henry, died in 1200.
• (VII) William Wentworth, son of Hugh (6), was succeeded by his son and heir, Robert Wentworth.
• (VIII) Robert Wentworth, son of William (7), married Emma Woodhouse, thus acquiring the estate from which the family was subsequently known as the Wentworths of Wentworth-Woodhouse. He was living in the reign of Henry III and Edward I.
• (IX) William Wentworth, son of Robert (8), of Wentworth-Woodhouse, married Beatrice, daughter of Gilbert Thakel, of Yorkshire. Children: 1. William, mentioned below. 2. Richard, became prebendary of St. Paul's, and in 1338 was made Bishop of London, and in the same year Lord High Chancellor of England. He died 1339, on of the most distinguished men of his day.
• (X) William Wentworth, son of William (9), married first, 1288, Dionysia, daughter of Peter de Rotherfield; second Lucy, daughter of Sir Adam Newmarch. He died 1295, in the lifetime of his father, at whose death in 1308-09 the family estate went to William (11). Children all by first wife: 1. William mentioned below. 2. John, married Alice daughter of John Bissett.
• (XI) William Wentworth, son of William (10), inherited Wentworth-Woodhouse. He married Isabel, daughter of William Pollington, ESq., of Pollington, Yorkshire. Children: 1. William, who was knighted and continued the direct line of the family of Wentworth-Woodhouse. 2 John mentioned below.
• (XII) John Wentworth, son of William (11), of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, inherited that estate from his uncle John Wentworth (11), and which is at no great distance from Wentworth-Woodhouse, being in the parish of South Kirkby, about nine miles from Doncaster. He married Joan, daughter of Richard Tyas, of Burghwallis, Yorkshire.
• (XIII) John Wentworth, only son of John Wentworth (12), of North Elmsall, married Agnes, sister and co-heir of Sir William Dronsfield, of West Bretton, Yorkshire, and was living in 1413. Sons: 1 John, mentioned below. 2. Roger, married, June, 1423, Margery le Despenser. 3. Thomas, settled in Doncaster; died 1449-50. 4. Richard.
• (XIV) John Wentworth, Esq., son of John Wentworth (13), of North Elmsall, married Joan, (or Elizabeth, according to some authorities), daughter of Richard Beaumont, Esq., of Whitley Hall, Yorkshire. Sons: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Roger. 3. William.
• (XV) John Wentworth, Esq., son of John Wentworth (14), married Elizabeth, daughter of William Calverly, Esq., of Calverly, Yorkshire. Children: .... etc. ____________________
• Three Branches of the Family of Wentworth: I. Wentworth of Nettlestead ... By William Loftie Rutton
• https://books.google.com/books?id=YhY5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&d...
• Pg.xvi
• WILLIAM WENTWORTH of Wentworth Woodhouse, co. York ; died 1308. = Isabella, dau. and coheir of William Pollington of Pollington, co. York ; ch: William (m. Isabella Tinsley), John (m. Joan Tyas) Wentworth
  • WILLIAM WENTWORTH of Wentworth-Woodhouse, co. York; living 1314. = Isabella, da. and coheir of Walter Tinsley of Tinsley, co. York. ch: Wentworth of Wentworth-Woodhouse. Wentworth of Wooley, co. York. Wentworth of Wentworth Castle, co. York.
  • JOHN WENTWORTH; living 1314. = Joan, da. and coheir of Richard le Tyas of Burgh-Wallis, co. York. ; ch: John (m. Alice Bissett) Wentworth
    • JOHN WENTWORTH, ju. ux. of North Elmsall, co. York, temp. Edw. III. = Alice, da. and coheir of Roger Bissett of North Elmsall, co. York. ; ch: John (m. Agnes Dronsfield) Wentworth
      • JOHN WENTWORTH, of North Elmsall ; living 1413. = Agnes, sister and coheir of Sir William Dronsfield of West Bretton, co. York. ; ch: John, Roger (m. Margery Despenser), Richard Wentworth
        • RICHARD WENTWORTH of West Bretton, co. York. = ; ch: Wentworth of West Bretton, co. York.
        • JOHN WENTWORTH of North Elmsall. = ; ch: Wentworth of North Elmsall, South Elmsall, Brodworth, and U.S. America.
        • ROGER WENTWORTH. ju. ux. of Nettlestead, co. Suffolk; died 1452. = Margery, da. and heir of Sr Philip Despenser, Knt., of Nettlestead; widow of John, Lord Roos; she died 1478. ; ch: Sir Philip, Henry (m. Elizabeth Howard & Joan FitzSimon) Wentworth
          • .... etc. _____________________________
• 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/n170/mo...
• XII. John Wentworth, Esq., of North Elmsall, in Yorkshire, who inherited that estate from his uncle John, and which is at no great distance from Wentworth-Woodhouse, being in the parish of South Kirkby, about nine miles from Doncaster. He married Joan, daughter of Richard le Tyas, of Burghwallis, in Yorkshire, and was succeeded by his only son--
  • XIII. John Wentworth, Esq., of North Elmsall, who married Agnes, sister and co-heir of Sir William Dronsfield, of West Bretton, in Yorkshire, and living in 1413. He had four sons, viz:
    • 1. John, of whom hereafter.
    • 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,* 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), 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.
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n178/mo...
    • 3. Thomas, who settled at Doncaster, and died about 1450.
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n180/mo...
    • 4. Richard, who married Matilda (or Maude), Countess of Cambridge, and became ancestor of the Wentworths of Bretton,* in Yorkshire, among whom was a line of Baronets, the last of whom died in 1792.
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n182/mo...
    • * Richard Wentworth was of Everton, Co. Notts. His will was dated 20 December, 1447. His wife was relict of Richard, Earl of Cambridge (who was beheaded), son of Edward of Langley, Duke of York. She was daughter of Lord Clifford. By her he had issue as follows:
      • 1. Richard, of whom hereafter.
      • 2. William Wentworth, Esq., whose will was dated 28 October, and proved 10 December, 1497, in which he directs to be buried in the church of Gamlinggay, Co. Cambridge. He married Lady Margaret St. George; who survived him.
      • 3. Thomas.
      • 4. Anne. ___________________
• The baronetage of England: containing a genealogical and historical account ... By Thomas Wotton
• http://books.google.com/books?id=z6W35JBfgQAC&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq...
• Pg. 300
• But, the third son of John Wentworth, Esq; and Agnes, sister and coheir of Sir William Dransfield, (or Dronfield) was,
• 1. Richard Wentworth, of Everton in Nottinghamshire, who enjoyed his mother's estate at West-Breton: he married Matilda, or Maud, countess of Cambridge, daughter of the lord Clifford, and relict of Richard, earl of Cambridge, who was beheaded, son of Edmund, of Langley, duke of York, and had issue, Richard, William, Thomas, and Anne. And to his second wife, Cecilia __; Isabel, his daughter, married to Richard Wheatley, of Wooley, Esq; His will bears date, Dec. 20, 1447.
  • 2. Richard Wentworth, of Breton, Esq; eldest son and heir, married Isabel, daughter of Sir William Fitz-Williams, .......... _____________
• Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire (1874) Vol. 2
• http://www.archive.org/details/pedigreesofcount02fost
  • CHART
• http://www.archive.org/stream/pedigreesofcount02fost#page/n264/mode...
• http://www.archive.org/stream/pedigreesofcount02fost#page/n266/mode...
• 1. JOHN WENTWORTH & AGNES DRONSFIELD
  • 2. RICHARD WENTWORTH 1ST WIFE CECILIA TANSLEY CH: ISABEL, MARRIED TO RICHD. WHEATLEY, OF WOOLLEY. 2ND WIFE MAUDE CLIFFORD CH: RICHARD WENTWORTH, WILLIAM, THOMAS
    • 3. RICHARD WENTWORTH & ISABEL, FITZ-WILLIAM ______________
• Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions, Parts 5-7 By Sir William Dugdale
• http://books.google.com/books?id=FqJCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq...
• Pg. 127
• I. JOHN WENTWORTH, of Elmsall, living 1413, mar. Agnes, sister and coheiress of Sir Wm. Dronsfield, of West Bretton. They had issue —
  • II. RICHARD WENTWORTH, of Everton and Bretton. Had Bretton from his mother. Will 20 Dec. 1447, pr. 29 May 1449 (Test. Eb., ii, 137), to be bur. at Everton, mar. Cecilia, dau. and heiress of John Tansley, of Everton, exec. of her husband's will. They had issue —
    • III. RICHARD WENTWORTH, of Bretton. Will 3 Oct. 1488, pr. at York 10 Jan 1488/9 (Test. Eb., ii, 137), to be bur. at Silkstone, mar. Isabel, dau. of Sir Wm. Fitzwilliam, of Sprotborough. They had issue -- _________
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• Thirteenth Generation
• 63. Agnes Dronsfield #42 m. 20 Jan 1407, John Wentworth #43, (son of John Wentworth (of Elmsall) #45 and Jane le Tyas #44) d. 15 Oct 1425. Agnes died 3 Oct 1430.
• Children:
  • 74. i Richard #46.
  • Fourteenth Generation
  • 74. Richard Wentworth #46 m. (1) Cecilia Tansley #47, (daughter of John Tansley #49 and ? #48). Richard died c 1448/9. Will dated 20.12.1447 - proved at York 29.5.1449.
  • Children by Cecilia Tansley:
    • Fifteenth Generation
    • 88. Richard Wentworth (of Bretton) #50 m. Isabel Fitzwilliam #51, (daughter of William Fitzwilliam (Sir) #53 and Elizabeth Chaworth #52).
• From: http://74.6.117.48/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=Thomas+Wentworth+Marc... ______________________
• The visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 (1881)
• http://www.archive.org/details/visitationofyork00flow
• http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationofyork00flow#page/339/mode/...
• http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationofyork00flow#page/340/mode/...
  • Wentworth of Bretton. ________________________
• Wentworth03
• .... etc.
• 1. John Wentworth of North Elmsall (a 1413), d. 15.10.1425
• m. (1407) Agnes Dronsfield (dau (sb sister?) of Sir William Dronsfield of West Bretton)
• Visitation shows the following John as father rather than brother of Roger of Nettlestead and Richard of West Bretton. It identifies Roger as the eldest son, Richard as the 2nd, and John (who married Miss Calverley) as the 3rd. We follow BEB1844 because the generations are consistent with the report in TCP of the ancestry of the 1st Lord Wentworth.
  • i. .... etc.
  • iv. Richard Wentworth of West Bretton (a c 1440)
  • m. Maud Clifford (dau of Thomas (sb John??), Lord Clifford)
    • a. Richard Wentworth of West Bretton
    • This generation omitted by Visitation (Essex).
    • m. Isabell Fitzwilliam (dau of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough)
• Main source(s):
• (1) For Wentworth of North Elmsall : BEB1844 (Wentworth of North Elmsall), Visitation (Essex, 1558+1612, Wentworth)
• (2) For Wentworth of Nettlestead : TCP (Wentworth of Wellesborough), BE1883 (Wentworth of Cleveland) with some support from TCP (Despenser)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ww/wentworth03.php _____________________
• Clifford 02
• Thomas de Clifford, 6th Lord (d 18.08.1391)
• m. Elizabeth de Ros (dau of Thomas de Ros, 5th Lord)
  • 1. John de Clifford, 7th Lord (d 18.03.1421-2)
  • m. (1412) Elizabeth Percy (d 1437, dau of Sir Henry 'Hotspur' Percy)
    • A. .... etc.
    • B. Mary Clifford probably of this generation
    • m. Sir Philip Wentworth of Nettlestead or Nettlested (d. 18.05.1464)
    • C. Maud Clifford possibly of this generation
    • m. Richard Wentworth of West Bretton (a c1440)
  • 2. Maud Clifford dsp 26.08.1446) probably of this generation
  • m1. (div) John Nevill, 6th Lord Latimer
  • m2. (c1414) Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge (b 1375, d. 05.08.1415)
• Main source(s): BE1883 (Clifford of Cumberland), BP1934 (De Clifford)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/cc4aq/clifford02.php _______________________

Mostly appears in primary sources as "of Everton". This is near Worksop, Notts, and was his wife's inheritance. He might have lived more at Conisbrough Castle, where he was evidently employed as a henchman of Maud Clifford, Countess of Cambridge (incorrectly shown as his wife in many old pedigrees).

Many tertiary sources call him Richard Wentworth of (West) Bretton. This was his mother's inheritance, but as a younger son it's not clear that he ever had it, though his descendants did.