Sir John Wentworth, of Gosfield

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John Wentworth, Sir

Birthdate:
Death: September 15, 1567 (72-73)
Place of Burial: Gosfield, Essex, England
Immediate Family:

Son of Sir Roger Wentworth, Kt., of Cobham Hall and Anne Tyrell
Husband of Anne Wentworth
Father of Mary Wentworth and Anne Deane
Brother of Margaret Wentworth; Henry Wentworth, of Mountnessing; Roger (ii) Wentworth, of Felsted & Bocking and Lora Shaa
Half brother of Margaret Berney

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About Sir John Wentworth, of Gosfield

  • John WENTWORTH of Gosfield
  • Died: 1567
  • Father: Roger WENTWORTH (Sir)
  • Mother: Anne TYRELL
  • Married: Anne BETTENHAM 9 Feb 1515, Gosfield, Essex, England
  • Children:
    • 1. John WENTWORTH of Gosfield (b. ABT 1520 - d. 1553)
    • 2. Margaret WENTWORTH (b. ABT 1522 - d. 1553)
    • 3. Mary WENTWORTH (B. Wentworth of Nettlestead)
    • 4. Anne WENTWORTH (B. Maltravers)
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WENTWORTH.htm#John WENTWORTH of Gosfield1 ___________________
  • 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/n174/mo...
  • Sir Roger had the following issue:
    • 1. Sir Philip, of Whom hereafter.
    • 2. Henry Wentworth, Esq., of Codham Hall, County Essex, the first of the family who settled in that county. He died 22 March, 1482-3, having had two wives. by the 2d, Jane, daughter of Henry Fitz Lewes, who survived him, he had no issue. By his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Henry Howard (2d son of Sir John Howard, by Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Hussey, of Co. Sussex, Kt.,) he had, with other issue, Sir Roger Wentworth, of Codham Hall, aforesaid, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1499, and died 9 August 1539, who married Anne, only daughter and heir of Humphrey Tyrrell, Esq., of Little Warley, Co. Essex. She died 28 August, 1534, leaving, with other issue, Sir John Wentworth, Kt., of Gosfield, Co. Essex, born 1494, died 15 September, 1567; he married Anne, daughter of John Bettenham, Esq., of Pluckley, Co. Kent, who was buried at Gosfield, Co. Essex, 30 November, 1595. They had two daughters. One of them, Anne, married three times: 1st. Sir Hugh Rich, 2d son of Lord Chancellor Rich, who died 1 November 1554; 2d. Henry Fitzallen, Lord Maltravers, who died in 1556; and 3d. Wm. Deane, Esq. Lady Maltravers was buried in Gosfield Church, 10 January, 1580-1. The other daughter of Sir John and Lady Anne Wentworth, viz., Mary, was married at Gosfield, 9 February, 1545-6, to Sir Thos. Wentworth, Kt., 2d Baron of Nettlestead. She died without issue, and evidently shortly after her marriage. (See forward to number 19 of this note for further account of her husband.)
    • 3. Thomas, .... etc.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n178/mo...
  • (19) Sir Thomas Wentworth, Kt., 2d Baron Wentworth, who is said in the Peerages to have been summoned to Parliament "from 23 January, 1552 to 4 February, 1489." This is, however, an error; as the letters of Administration granted on his estate to his son Henry, on the 18 January, 1583-4, have been found. He died at Stepney, Co. Middlesex. He was one of Queen Mary's Privy Council, and Deputy of Calais when that place was surrendered, in 1558. He was subsequently tried by his peers and honorably acquitted. He was one of the noblemen who sat in judgment on the Duke of Norfolk, and also upon Mary, Queen of Scots.
  • He was twice married. His first wife was Mary, daughter of Sir John Wentworth, Kt., of Gosfield, Co. of Essex, to whom he was married at Gosfield, 9 February, 1545-6 (For her descent, see back to No. 2, of XIV., of this note).
  • She died without issue, and he remarried Anne, daughter of Henry Wentworth, Esq., of Co. Suffolk. She was buried at Stepney, Co. Middlesex, in 1571. By her he had issue as follows: .....
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n180/mo...
  • Sir Roger Wentworth, of Codham Hall, by his wife Anne Tyrrell (see back to number 2 of XIV. of this note) had a second son, Henry Wentworth, Esq., Mountnessing, Co. Essex, and died in his father's lifetime, leaving by his wife Anne, daughter of Reginald Hammond, Esq. (with other issue), a son, John Wentworth, Esq., born 1540, buried at Gosfield, 3 April, 1588. He inherited Gosfield Hall from his uncle Sir John Wentworth, Kt. (see back to number 2 of XIV. of this note), and by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Christopher Heydon, Kt., had with other issue a son, John Wentworth, Esq., born 1564, buried in Gosfield church, 11 February, 1613-4, who married Cecelia, daughter of Sir Edward Unton, by Anne, Countess of Warwick, and had with other issue Sir John Wentworth, Kt., of Gosfield, created a Baronet, 29 June, 1611, and died in October 1631, when, having no surviving male issue, the Baronetcy expired.
  • He married Catherine, daughter of Sir Moyle Finch, Kt., who died in September 1639. They had, with several other daughters, a daughter Lucy, who married Thomas, 4th Baron Wentworth, and 1st Earl of Cleveland, as above stated. ______________________
  • The Wentworth genealogy: English and American (1878) Vol. 1
  • https://archive.org/details/wentworthgeneal02wentgoog
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgeneal02wentgoog#page/n85/mo...
  • (16) Sir Roger Wentworth, Kt., of Codham Hall, was sheriff of the counties of Essex and Hertford in 1499. He died 9 August 1539, aged 74, and was buried at Gosfield, co. Essex. He married Anne, daughter and heir of Humphrey Tyrrell, Esq., of Little Warley, co. Essex, and heir also to her mother Isabel, daughter and heir of John Helion, Esq. She died 28 August 1534, and was buried at Gosfield. They had issue as follows: --
    • (17) 1. Sir John Wentworth, Kt., of Bocking and Gosfield, co. Essex, who was born in 1494. He was buried at Gosfield 1 October 1567. He married, before 1525, Anne, daughter of John Bettenham, Esq., of Pluckley, co. Kent. She was buried at Gosfield 30 November 1575. They had issue, an only son John, who died young, and three daughters, viz. --
      • (1) Mary18, who married her kinsman Thomas19, second Lord Wentworth, of Nettlested (see ante for further particulars of her) .
      • (2) Anne18, who married, first. Sir Hugh Rich, Kt., eldest son of Richard, first Lord Rich, who died 1 November 1554, and was buried at Gosfield ; secondly, Henry, Lord Maltravers, son of Henry, Earl of Arundell, who died at Brussells in 1556 ; and thirdly, William Deane, Esq., of Dynes Hall, in Great Maplestead, co. Essex, who survived her. She died without issue by either husband, and was buried at Gosfield 10 January 1580-81.
      • (3) Margaret18, who died unmarried, and was buried at Gosfield 24 April 1553.
    • 2. Henry, of whom hereafter.
    • 3. Roger Wentworth, Esq., of Felsted and Bocking, co. Essex, who compounded to avoid knighthood in 1553-4. He died 24 February 1556-7 and was buried at Bocking. His first wife Mary according to his monument, was buried at Bocking. He married secondly, Alice Buckford, who was living, as appears by a deed, in 1540; and thirdly, Anne Isaac, a widow, who survived him, and died in 1561. By his second wife Alice he had a daughter Anne, who married, first Roger Parker, of Gosfield and secondly Richard Upcher; another daughter, who married __ Mannock; and an only son
    • http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgeneal02wentgoog#page/n87/mo...
    • 4. John Wentworth, the younger (there being two brothers with the same Christian name, -- a practice not uncommon at this period), son of Sir Roger, of Bumpstead at the Tower, co. Essex. He died before 1566, and his wife Elizabeth in 1569. Their son ....
    • 5. Lora, who married, first, Edward Shaw (or Shaa); secondly, __ Everard; and thirdley, Francis Clopton, of Kedington, co. Suffolk, Esq.
    • 6. Margaret, who married John Berney, Esq., of Reedham, co. Norfold, ancestor of the line of Baronets of this name. ____________________________
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Sir John Wentworth, of Gosfield's Timeline

1494
1494
1524
1524
Codham Hall, Essex, England
1567
September 15, 1567
Age 73
October 1, 1567
Age 73
Gosfield, Essex, England
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