Sir Thomas Wentworth, 6th Lord le Despenser, 1st Lord Wentworth

He and his wife, Anne Tyrell, had nine daughters and eight sons:

• Sir Thomas Wentworth (d. January 18, 1583/4); m. Mary Wentworth of Gosfield
• Sir Henry Wentworth, m. Elizabeth Glemham (Thomas d. sp., Edward, Richard)
• Richard Wentworth, m. Margaret Reydon/Ryther (their only child, Mrs. Jane Houghton)
• Philip Wentworth, m. Elizabeth Corbet (Philip)
• John and James (both lost at sea, March 1562/3, in the shipwrecked "Greyhound")
• Edward
• Roger (d. July 14, 1577); m. ??? (daughter Katherine)
• Anne Polney (d. August 28, 1575 in Badley, Suffolk)
• Cecily Wingfield (d. in Letheringham, Suffolk)
• Mary Cavendish (d. in Grimston, Suffolk)
• Margaret Crofts (formerly Mrs.: 1) Williams, 2) Drury)
• Jane Cheyne (d. s.p. April 16, 1614 in Toddington, Bedfordshire)
• Dorothy Savile (formerly Mrs.: 1) Widmerpoole, 2) Frobisher; d. before 1606 in Methley, West Yorkshire)
• Elizabeth Cocke (d. after January 27th, 1575; Little Stanbridge, Essex)
• Catherine
• Margery

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Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth and de jure 6th Baron le Despencer, PC (1501 – 3 March 1551) was an English peer and courtier during the Tudor dynasty.

The Wentworths were originally from Yorkshire but had settled in Nettlestead, Suffolk in the mid-fifteenth century, where Wentworth was born. He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Wentworth, de jure 5th Baron le Despencer of the 1387 creation, and was a nephew of Margery Wentworth, the mother of Jane Seymour. His mother was Anne, the daughter of Sir James Tyrrell, the supposed murderer of the Princes in the Tower.

Circa 1520. Wentworth married Margaret Fortescue, the eldest daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue. They had a large family of eight sons and nine daughters, including Thomas, later 2nd Baron Wentworth and Mary, who married Sir William Drury.

In 1523, Wentworth took part in Suffolk's failed invasion of France and was knighted by him. In 1529, he was also created Baron Wentworth in the Peerage of England. In 1536, he was present at the trials of Anne Boleyn and her brother, Lord Rochford and at those of Lord Montagu and the Marquess of Exeter in 1538.

In 1550, Lord Wentworth was appointed Lord Chamberlain to Edward VI and died the following year. His funeral was held at Westminster Abbey and he was buried in the abbey's Chapel of St John the Baptist. His title passed to his eldest son, Thomas.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wentworth,_1st_Baron_Wentworth

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• Sir Thomas Wentworth, 6th Lord le Despenser, 1st Lord Wentworth1,2
• M, b. circa 1500, d. 3 March 1551
• Father Sir Richard Wentworth, 5th Lord le Despenser, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk2 b. c 1480, d. 17 Oct 1528
• Mother Anne Tyrrell2 b. c 1481, d. a 11 Nov 1529
• Sir Thomas Wentworth, 6th Lord le Despenser, 1st Lord Wentworth was born circa 1500 at of Nettlestead, Suffolk, England; Age 28 in 1528.2 He married Margaret Fortescue, daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue and Anne Stonor, circa 1520; They had 8 sons (Thomas, Henry, Richard, Philip, John, Edward, James, & Roger) and 9 daughters (Anne, Cecily, Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret, Margery, Jane, Katherine, & Dorothy).1,2,3 Sir Thomas Wentworth, 6th Lord le Despenser, 1st Lord Wentworth died on 3 March 1551 at King's Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England.4 He was buried on 7 March 1551 at Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England.4
• Family Margaret Fortescue b. c 1502, d. bt 23 Apr 1546 - 12 May 1551
• Children
  • Anne Wentworth+5 b. c 1521, d. 28 Aug 1575
  • Margery Wentworth+2 b. c 1530
  • Dorothy Wentworth6,2 b. c 1540, d. 3 Jan 1601
  • Philip Wentworth+5 b. c 1550, d. b 10 Oct 1583
• Citations
• 1.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 497-499.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 381.
• 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 692.
• 4.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 382.
• 5.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 381-382.
• 6.[S147] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 1938 ed., by Sir Bernard Burke, p., 1723.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2881.htm#... __________
• Thomas Wentworth, 1st Lord Wentworth
• M, #372713, b. 1501, d. 3 March 1551
• Last Edited=23 May 2010
• Thomas Wentworth, 1st Lord Wentworth was born in 1501. He married Margaret Fortescue. He died on 3 March 1551.
• Thomas Wentworth, 1st Lord Wentworth gained the title of 1st Lord Wentworth.
• Children of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Lord Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue
  • 1.Anne Wentworth+2
  • 2.Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Lord Wentworth+ b. 1525, d. 13 Jan 1583/84
• Citations
• 1.[S3409] Caroline Maubois, "re: Penancoet Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 2 December 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Penancoet Family."
• 2.[S47] Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editor, Burke's Irish Family Records (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), page 292. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Irish Family Records.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p37272.htm#i372713 ________________
• Thomas WENTWORTH (1° B. Wentworth of Nettlestead)
• Born: ABT 1501, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
• Acceded: 2 Dec 1529
• Died: 3 Mar 1550/51, Wooley, York, England
• Buried: Westminister Abbey, London, England
• Notes: See his Biography. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/ThomasWentworth(1BNettlestead).htm
• Father: Richard WENTWORTH (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Anne TYRRELL
• Married: Margaret FORTESCUE (B. Wentworth of Nettlestead) ABT 1520, Suffolk, England
• Children:
  • 1. Thomas WENTWORTH (2° B. Wentworth of Nettlestead)
  • 2. Phillip WENTWORTH
  • 3. Anne WENTWORTH
  • 4. Elizabeth WENTWORTH
  • 5. Margaret WENTWORTH
  • 6. Dorothy WENTWORTH
  • 7. James WENTWORTH
  • 8. Thomas WENTWORTH (Sir Knight)
  • 9. John WENTWORTH (d. 1562, lost with the Greyhound)
  • 10. Margery WENTWORTH
  • 11. Cecily WENTWORTH
  • 12. Jane WENTWORTH (B. Cheney of Toddington)
  • 13. Henry WENTWORTH
  • 14. Son WENTWORTH
  • 15. Son WENTWORTH
  • 16. Dau. WENTWORTH
  • 17. Dau. WENTWORTH
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WENTWORTH.htm#Thomas WENTWORTH (1° B. Wentworth of Nettlestead) ____________________
• WENTWORTH, Sir Thomas I (by 1500-51), of Nettlestead, Suff. and Westminster, Mdx.
• b. by 1500, 1st s. of Sir Richard Wentworth, de jure 5th Lord le Despenser, of Nettlestead, by Anne, da. of Sir James Tyrrell of Gipping, Suff. m. by 1524 Margaret da. of Sir Adrian Fortescue of Shirburn and Stonor, Oxon., 8s. inc. Sir Thomas II 9da. Kntd. 1 Nov. 1523; suc. fa. 17 Oct. 1528; cr. Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead 2 Dec. 1529.2
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Suff. 1523-d.; commr. subsidy 1523, 1524, coastal defence 1539, benevolence 1544/45, musters 1546, relief, London, Suff., royal household 1550; other commissions, Suff. and eastern counties 1534-45; member, household of Duke of Suffolk by 1524-?8; PC by 7 Aug. 1549; chamberlain, the Household Feb. 1550-d.3
• Biography
• Thomas Wentworth’s family, whose ancestors were of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, had acquired Nettlestead by a mid 15th century marriage with the Despensers: his father Sir Richard, who served twice as sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, also owned land in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. The first known reference to Thomas Wentworth concerns his service in 1523 under the Duke of Suffolk in the French campaign, when he was knighted at the surrender of Roye. He may have been already a member of Suffolk’s household, for in the following year, as a commissioner for the subsidy levied upon it, he returned himself second on the list with an assessment of £50.4
• On the death of his father in 1528 Wentworth succeeded to Nettlestead with five other Suffolk manors lying northwest of Ipswich, and five manors in Yorkshire; he was also to enjoy rights in Kentish and Lincolnshire property after feoffees had taken the profits for ten years. The following year saw his only known return to Parliament, although he may have sat in 1523, when the names of the Suffolk knights of the shire are lost. Returned in the autumn of 1529, he was not to sit in the Commons for more than a few weeks after the Parliament opened on 3 Nov.; one of the four Members elevated to baronies, perhaps par parole, early in the session, he took his seat in the Lords on 2 Dec. Three years later Cromwell put forward Arthur Hopton as Wentworth’s replacement in the Commons, but the outcome of the by-election is not known. The Thomas Wentworth, whose nomination as one of the knights for Yorkshire was passed over in favour of Sir John Neville II at the same time, was a distant kinsman.5
• Wentworth may have owed his ennoblement to his close association with the Duke of Suffolk. His attendance in the Lords was erratic until the accession of Edward VI, and he was absent from the House for an entire session in 1533 and while the attainder of his father-in-law was under review in 1539. Little has come to light about his part in its proceedings. In 1529 he was one of the signatories to the draft of a measure to resolve problems arising from uses. He signed six Acts passed during the third session of the Parliament of 1547 and the bill assuring lands to the city of London which was to be enacted a year after his death. His career was to show him as a constant supporter of government policies, whatever their religious implications. In 1530 he was one of those who signed the letter to Clement VII asking for the pope’s consent to the royal divorce. He took part in the impeachment of both the Queens and all the noblemen brought to trial from 1536 onwards. His decision against Anne Boleyn may not have been without bias as he was a cousin of Jane Seymour. On the outbreak of rebellion in the summer of 1536 he was ordered to attend the King with 100 of his men and in the following October the 3rd Duke of Norfolk asked the King to empower Wentworth ‘to take the chief rule’ in Suffolk during his own absence in the north. A year later he attended the christening of Prince Edward, handing the water to the godfathers, Cranmer and Norfolk. Present at the reception of Anne of Cleves in January 1540, he was host to the King and Catherine Howard at Nettlestead later in the same year. In 1543 he campaigned in the Netherlands and in 1544 in France.6
• From 1523, when Wentworth had first been put on the Suffolk bench, he was in local management. It was perhaps in return for some favour from Cromwell that in 1531 Wentworth gave him an annuity of £5 from the manor of Nettlestead. He corresponded on a number of topics with Cromwell, to whom he was to write as late as February 1540, ‘I shall not fail to favour whomsoever you shall hereafter command me to befriend’. In 1538 a certain William Lawrence reported to the minister that Wentworth had helped in the secret transport of an image of the Virgin Mary by ship to London and that he had done much good in quietening controversies in Ipswich, ordering their instigators to reform and to ‘speak the sincere gospel’. In the same year Wentworth himself wrote to Cromwell, as founder in blood of the Greyfriars of Ipswich, to object to the friars’ sale of their plate and jewels: the order, he declared, was ‘neither stock nor graft which the heavenly Father had planted, but only a hypocritical seed planted of ... the bishop of Rome’, adding that he had purchased the site of the priory for himself and his heirs. Wentworth’s religious views influenced the careers of two men who were to become notable Protestant preachers and writers. It was at his request that in 1538 the parishioners of St. Lawrence, Ipswich, appointed the newly ordained Thomas Becon as priest of the chantry of Edmund Daundy; Wentworth described Becon to Cromwell as a man ‘well learned, a true preacher of the word of God, a great setter forth ... of the King’s most just and lawful title of supremacy, approved by God’s word’. John Bale, later a prebendary of Canterbury and bishop of Ossory, must have known Wentworth while a friar in Ipswich; in his writings he acknowledged that Wentworth had brought about his conversion. Wentworth’s official attitude towards dissent may have caused him some heart searchings, and Foxe was probably right when he described, in his account of the trial of two Protestant martyrs at Ipswich in 1545, how after giving judgment for burning Wentworth ‘did shroud himself behind one of the posts of the gallery and wept’ during its execution.7
• With the succession of Edward VI Wentworth could look forward to advancement as a kinsman of the Protector Somerset and a friend of reform. In accordance with the late King’s wishes he received the stewardship of all the lands of the bishop of Ely in Norfolk and Suffolk; he was also given temporary custody of the younger children of the Earl of Surrey. When the crisis came in 1549, however, it was not Somerset but the Earl of Warwick whom Wentworth followed. He accompanied the Marquess of Northampton in the first attempt to suppress Ket’s rebellion and he sat on the commission which subsequently tried prisoners at Yarmouth. He was admitted to the Privy Council somewhat earlier than his first recorded appearance at its meeting of 9 Oct. 1549, for on the previous 7 Aug. he had joined with Somerset and others in signing a letter to the mayor of Southampton about a prize court case, but his allegiance to Warwick is proved by his inclusion among the six lords appointed on 15 Oct. to be governors of the King’s person and education. He was also made one of a quorum of two among the group of Councillors responsible for the finances of the Household and the army, a commitment which was to be followed by his appointment as chamberlain of the Household in succession to the 12th Earl of Arundel, who had sided with Somerset. He held this post for little more than a year before his death in 1551.8
• Wentworth had shown no personal interest in acquiring monastic property, except for the Blackfriars at Ipswich and a lease for 21 years from March 1537 of Newsom manor in Lincolnshire. In April 1550 he was granted the lordships and manors of Hackney and Stepney, valued at over £245 yearly, and two months later, in recognition of his service under two monarchs, the former abbot’s house at Westminster. He died in the palace at Westminster on 3 Mar. 1551 and was buried in great state in the abbey. According to Edward VI all but one of his 17 children survived Wentworth. By a will made on 16 May 1544 he had left marriage portions of 200 marks to his nine daughters and £10 yearly to his seven younger sons on their majority. These bequests were payable from manors in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Wentworth left to his wife for life all the manors (unspecified) which he had acquired from Nicholas Astley, clerk, and a share of all household goods except plate. He directed that some of his property in Ipswich should be sold to pay off a mortgage on lands in Kent. Any ambiguities in the will were to be referred to James Hales, serjeant-at-law. It was proved on 27 Nov. 1551 by Wentworth’s eldest son Thomas, the executorship having been renounced by the widow and John Gosnold. A drawing by Holbein and several portraits of Wentworth survive.9
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/we... ___________________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 60
• Wentworth, Thomas (1501-1551) 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.
• Thomas Wentworth, born in 1501, served through the Duke of Suffolk's expedition into France in 1523, and was knighted in the chapel at Roye on 31 Oct. with his cousin, Edward Seymour (afterwards Duke of Somerset). In 1527 he was a member of the household of Henry VIII's sister Mary, and on 17 Oct. 1528 succeeded his father at Nettlestead. He was returned as knight of the shire to the ‘Reformation’ parliament summoned to meet on 3 Nov. 1529, but on 2 Dec. 1529 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Wentworth. He adopted with apparent sincerity Reformation principles, and to his influence John Bale attributed his conversion (Bale, Vocacyon, p. 14). Subsequently he took some part in the proceedings against heretics, but probably with much reluctance. In 1530 he signed the peers' letter to the pope, requesting that Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon might be granted, and in 1532 he attended the king on his visit to Calais to meet Francis I. In May 1536 he was one of the peers who tried and condemned Anne Boleyn, and in December 1539 he was sent to Calais to receive Anne of Cleves. He must be distinguished from the Sir Thomas Wentworth who was captain of Carlisle from 26 June 1537 to 24 Oct. 1541. He did not benefit by Henry's will, but in February 1546–7 Paget declared that it was the late king's intention that Wentworth should be granted the stewardship of all the bishop of Ely's lands. In July 1549 he served under the Marquis of Northampton against the insurgents in Norfolk, and in the following October he was one of the peers whose aid Warwick enlisted to overthrow Somerset. He joined the conspirators in London on the 9th, and henceforth sat as a member of the privy council. He was further rewarded by being appointed one of the six lords to attend on Edward VI, and on 2 Feb. 1549–50, when Warwick deprived the catholic peers of their offices, Wentworth succeeded Arundel as lord chamberlain of the household; he was also on 16 April following granted the manors of Stepney and Hackney. He was a constant attendant at the privy council meetings until 15 Feb. 1550–1. He died on 3 March following, and was buried in Westminster Abbey on the 7th with a magnificence that contrasted strangely with the council's refusal to go into mourning the previous July on the death of Wentworth's aunt, who was also Somerset's mother and Edward VI's grandmother. A portrait of Wentworth is among the Holbein drawings at Windsor; it was engraved by Dalton, by Bartolozzi in 1792, and by Minaso in 1812; another portrait was lent by Mr. F. Vernon-Wentworth of Castle Wentworth to the South Kensington loan exhibition of 1866 (No. 169); a third, painted by Theodore Bernards, belongs to Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, bart., and was reproduced as a frontispiece to Mr. W. L. Rutton's ‘Three Branches of the Wentworth Family’ (1891).
• Wentworth married, about 1520, Margaret, elder daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue [q. v.], by his first wife, granddaughter and heir of John Neville, marquis of Montagu [q. v.] Sir Anthony Fortescue [q. v.] and Sir John Fortescue (1531?–1607) [q. v.] were her half-brothers, and Elizabeth, the wife of Sir Thomas Bromley (1530–1587) [q. v.], was her half-sister. Her daughters by Wentworth married equally well; Jane (d. 1614) became the wife of Henry, baron Cheney of Toddington; Margaret of first John, baron Williams of Thame [q. v.], secondly Sir William Drury [q. v.], and thirdly Sir James Crofts; and Dorothy of first Paul Withypole (d. 1579), secondly Martin Frobisher [q. v.], and thirdly Sir John Savile of Methley. Of the sons, Thomas succeeded as second baron, and is separately noticed; and John and James were lost with the Greyhound in March 1562–1563 (Machyn, pp. 304, 394). Wentworth had issue sixteen children in all.
• [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)
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• Sir Thomas Wentworth
• Birth: 1500 Nettlestead, Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, England
• Death: Mar. 3, 1551, England
• Baron Wentworth. 6th Lord Despenser, of Nettlestead, Suffolk. Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, Privy Councilor, Lord Chamberlain for the Household of King Edward VI.
• Son and heir to Sir Richard Wentworth and Anne Tyrrell, grandson of Sir Henry Wentworth, Lord Despenser and Anne Say, Sir James Tyrrell (executed for treason as an accomplice to Richard de la Pole) and Anne Arundel.
• Husband of Margaret Fortescue, daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue (beheaded for refusing to take the oath of supremacy) and Anne Stonor. They were married about 1520 and had eight sons and nine daughters
  • Thomas
  • Henry
  • Richard
  • Philip
  • John
  • Edward
  • James
  • Roger
  • Anne, wife of John Poley
  • Cecily, wife of Sir Robert Wingfield
  • Mary, wife of William Cavendish
  • Elizabeth, wife of John Cock and Leonard Matthew
  • Margaret
  • Margery, wife of John Williams Lord Thame, Sir William Drury and Sir James Croft
  • Jane, wife of Lord Henry Cheney
  • Katherine
  • Dorothy, wife of Paul Withypoll, Sir Martin Frobisher and Sir John Savile
• Sir Thomas took part in the Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk's expedition to France in 1523, was created Lord Wentworth and admitted to the House of Lords 02 Dec 1529. He was also one of the peers to try Queen Anne Boleyn. Sir Thomas served with Thomas Howard, the Duke of Norfolk at the Siege on Montreuil as one of his Council of War. Sir Thomas was granted the manors of Stepney, Hackney, and Cheney Gate, Westminster, Middlesex in 1550.
• Margaret was heir to her younger sister, Frances, the wife of Thomas FitzGerald, and Margaret died between 23 April 1546 and 12 May 1551.
• Sir Thomas died testate at the King's Palace at Westminster and was buried in the Westminster Abbey 07 March 1551.
• Family links:
• Parents:
• Richard Wentworth (1480 - 1528)
• Children:
  • Philip Wentworth (____ - 1583)*
  • Anne Wentworth Poley (1520 - 1575)*
• Burial: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England
• Plot: Chapel of St John the Evangelist
• Find A Grave Memorial# 109856403
• From http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=wentworth&GSf... _________________________________________
• 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)
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• (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:
• .... etc.
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• The line was continued by
• (17) Sir Richard Wentworth, Kt., of Nettlestead, Co. Suffolk, whose will was dated 15 October, and proved 21 November, 1528. By his wife, Anne, who survived him, daughter of Sir James Tirrell, of Gipping, Co. Suffolk, Kt., he had issue as follows:
  • 1. Sir Thomas, of whom hereafter.
  • 2. Philip, }
  • 3. Richard,} living, 1528, under age.
  • 4. Anne, }
  • 5. Elizabeth, } living, 1528.
  • 6. Dorothy, married, after 1528, to Sir Lionel Tollemache, Kt., of Hemlingham and Blutley, Co. Suffold, ancestor to the Earl of Dysart.
  • 7. Margery, who married, after 1528, Christopher Glemham, of Glemham, Co. Suffolk, Esq., and had Elizabeth, who married Sir Henry Wentworth. See forward to number (18-2) of this note.
  • 8. Thomasine, who married, after 1528, Richard Pinder, Esq., of Ipswich, Suffolk.
• The line was continued by
• (18) Sir Thomas Wentworth, Kt., Lord Chamberlain of the Household; who, in 1529, was summoned to Parliament, by writ, as Baron Wentworth. He died on the 3d, and was buried on the 7 March, 1550-1, in Westminster Abbey. His wife, who survived him, was Margaret, daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue, Kt. They had issue as follows:
  • 1. Sir Thomas, 2d Baron, of whom hereafter.
  • 2. Sir Henry (not 21 in 1544), who married his first cousin, Elizabeth Glemham. (See back to number (17-7) of this note.)
  • 3. Richard (not 21 in 1544), who married Margaret Royden.
  • 4. Philip (not 21 in 1544), who married a daughter of Sir Richard Corbet, Kt.
  • 5. John (not 21 in 1455), who perished at sea, in 1564.
  • 6. Edward (not 21 in 1544.)
  • 7. James (not 21 in 1544), who perished at sea in 1564.
  • 8. Roger (not 21 in 1544), who married, and had a daughter Katherine, who was buried at Stepney, Co. Middlesex, 14 July, 1577.
  • 9. Anne, living 1544; the wife of Sir John Poley, Kt., of Badley, Suffolk.
  • 10. Cicily (or Cecilia) married, after 1544, to Sir Robert Wingfield, Kt.
  • 11. Mary, who married, after 1544, William Cavendish, Esq., eldest son of Sir Richard Cavendish, Kt.
  • 12. Elizabeth, living 1544, unmarried.
  • 13. Margaret, who married, after 1544, 1st John Lord Williams; 2dly, Sir William Drury, Kt.; and 3dly, Sir John Crofts, Kt.
  • 14. Margery, living, 1544, unmarried.
  • 15. Jane, married, after 1544, to Sir Henry Cheyne, Kt., Lord Cheyne of Toddington, Co. Bedford, She died without issue, 16 April, 1614, and was buried at Toddington.
  • 16. Catherine, living, 1544, unmarried.
  • 17. Dorothy, married, after 1544, 1st, to Sir Wm. Widmerpoole, Kt.; 1dly, to Sir Martin Frobisher, Kt.; and 3dly, to Sir John Savile, Kt., one of the Barons of the Exchequer, who survived her and died 2 February, 1606-7.
• The line was continued by ____________________
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• 15. THOMAS WENTWORTH, Knt., de jure 6th Lord Despenser, of Nettlestead, Suffolk, Harston, Cambridgeshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, Privy Councillor, Lord Chamberlain of the Household to King Edward VI, son and heir, born about 1500 (age 28 in 1528). He married about 1520 MARGARET FORTESCUE, daughter of Adrian Fortescue, K.B., of Stonor (in Pyrton) and
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• Shirburn, Oxfordshire, and St. Clement Danes, London, by his 1st wife, Anne (descendant of Kind Edward III), daughter and heiress of William Stonor, Knt. [see STONOR 14 for her ancestry]. They had eight sons, Thomas [2nd Lord Wentworth], Henry, Richard, Philip, Gent., John, Edward, James, and Roger, and nine daughters, Anne, Cecily (wife of Robert Wingfield, Knt.), Mary wife of William Cavendish), Elizabeth (wife of John Cock and Leonard Matthew), Margaret, Margery (wife of John Williams [Lord Williams of Thame], William Drury, Knt., and James Croft, Knt.), Jane (wife of Henry Cheney [Lord Cheny]), Katherine, and Dorothy (wife of Paul Withypoll, and Martin Frobisher, Knt., John Savile, Knt.). He took part in the Duke of Suffolk's expedition to France in 1523. He was created Lord Wentworth and admitted to the House of Lords, 2 Dec. 1529. In 1530 he was one of the peers who tried Queen Anne Boleyn. His wife, Margaret, was heiress in 1540 to her younger sister Frances, wife of Thomas Fitz Gerald, 10th Earl of Kildare. In 1544 he served under the Duke of Norfolk as the Siege of Montreuil, being one of his Council of War. Margaret died between 23 April 1546 and 12 May 1551, presumably before her husband. He was granted the manor of Stepney, Hackney, and Cheyney Gate (now The Deanery), Westminster, all in Middlesex, in 1550. SIR THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1st Lord Wentworth, died at the King's Palace at Westminster 3 March 1550/1, and was buried 7 March 1550/1 in Westminster Abbey. He left a will proved 27 Nov. 1551 (P.C.C. 35 Bucke).
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• WILLIAMS, Sir John (by 1503-59), of Rycote and Thame, Oxon.
• b. by 1503, 2nd surv. s. of Sir John Williams of Burghfield, Berks. by Isabel, da. and coh. of Richard More of Burghfield. m. (1) by July 1524, Elizabeth (d. 25 Oct. 1556), da. and coh. of Thomas Bledlow of Bledlow, Bucks., wid. of Andrew Edmonds (d. 23 June 1523) of Cressing Temple, Essex, 3s. inc. Henry 2da.; (2) settlement 19 Apr. 1557, Margaret, da. of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Lord Wentworth, of Nettlestead, Suff., 1da. Kntd. 15 Nov. 1538/28 June 1539; cr. Lord Williams of Thame 1554.1
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• DRURY, William (1527-79).
• b. 2 Oct. 1527, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Sir Robert Drury II, and bro. of Dru† and Robert I. educ. Gonville, Camb. m. 10 Oct. 1560, Margaret, da. of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Lord Wentworth, wid. of Sir John Williams, Lord Williams of Thame, Oxon., 3da. Kntd. 11 May 1570.1
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• CROFT, James (d.1624), of Weston, Oxon.
• 3rd s. of Sir James Croft of Croft Castle, Herefs. by his 1st w.; bro. of Edward Croft and half-bro. of Thomas Wigmore. educ. G. Inn 1562 m. (1) 1580, Margaret (d.c.1588), da. of Thomas†, 1st Baron Wentworth, wid. of John†, Lord Williams of Thame, Oxon. and of Sir William Drury†, ld. deputy of Ireland. Kntd. 1603.1
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• Bedfordshire notes and queries
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• Mary Pever da. and heir whose first husband was Sir Richard St. Maur, jun. Kt., son and heir of Richard Lord St. Maur. (5.) Their only da., Alice, a posthumous child mar. to William Zouche, 5th Baron Zouche of Harringworth, and carried the Barony of St. Maur into that family. (3.) By her second husband John Broughton she left a son John Broughton who was grand-father of Sir Robert Broughton Kt., whose son Sir John Broughton of Toddington Kt., mar. Anne, da. and heir of Sir Guy Sapcote and left inter alia a da. Anne who became the 2nd wife of Sir Thomas Cheyney, K.G. Their son Sir Henry Cheyney of Toddington mar. Jane the seventh da. of Thomas Lord Wentworth, of Nettlested in com Suff. _________________________
• Kingsford's Stonor letters and papers 1290-1483 By Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, Christine Carpenter
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• The Family Forest Descendants of Lady Joan Beaufort By Bruce Harrison
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• A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct ... By Sir Bernard Burke
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• The visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey ... 1561, Cooke ... 1577, and ... By William Hervey, Robert Cook
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• The royal families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their descendants, sovereigns and subjects (1848)
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First son of Sir Richard Wentworth, of Nettlestead, de jure 5th Lord le Despenser, by Anne, dau. of Sir James Tyrrell of Gipping, Suff. Married by 1524 Margaret dau. of Sir Adrian Fortescue of Salden, Oxon., by whom he had eight sons, inc. Sir Thomas, and nine daughters. Kntd. 1 Nov 1523; suc. family 17 Oct 1528; cr. Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead 2 Dec 1529. J.p. Suff. 1523-d; commr. subsidy 1523, 1524, coastal defence 1539, benevolence 1544/45, musters 1546, relief, London, Suff., royal household 1550; other commissions, Suff. and eastern counties 1534-45; member, household of Duke of Suffolk by 1524-?8; PC by 7 Aug 1549; chamberlain, the Household Feb 1550-d.

• Thomas Wentworth's family, whose ancestors were of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, had acquired Nettlestead by a mid 15th century marriage with the Despensers: 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 Phillip 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.
• The father of Thomas Wentworth, Sir Richard, who served twice as sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, also owned land in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
• Wentworth married, about 1520, Margaret, elder daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue, by his first wife, granddaughter and heir of John Neville, marquis of Montagu. Sir Anthony Fortescue and Sir John Fortescue were her half-brothers, and her half-sister Elizabeth was the wife of Sir Thomas Bromley.
• The first known reference to Thomas Wentworth concerns his service in 1523 under the Duke of Suffolk in the French campaign, when he was knighted at the surrender of Roye with his cousin, Edward Seymour. He may have been already a member of Suffolk's household, for in the following year, as a commissioner for the subsidy levied upon it, he returned himself second on the list with an assessment of £50.
• In 1527 he was a member of the household of Henry VIII's sister Mary. On the death of his father in 1528 Wentworth succeeded to Nettlestead with five other Suffolk manors lying northwest of Ipswich, and five manors in Yorkshire; he was also to enjoy rights in Kentish and Lincolnshire property after feoffees had taken the profits for ten years. The following year saw his only known return to Parliament, although he may have sat in 1523, when the names of the Suffolk knights of the shire are lost. Returned in the autumn of 1529, he was not to sit in the Commons for more than a few weeks after the Parliament opened on 3 Nov; one of the four Members elevated to baronies, perhaps par parole, early in the session, he took his seat in the Lords on 2 Dec. Three years later Cromwell put forward Arthur Hopton as Wentworth's replacement in the Commons, but the outcome of the by-election is not known. The Thomas Wentworth, whose nomination as one of the knights for Yorkshire was passed over in favour of Sir John Neville at the same time, was a distant kinsman.
• Wentworth may have owed his ennoblement to his close association with the Duke of Suffolk. His attendance in the Lords was erratic until the accession of Edward VI, and he was absent from the House for an entire session in 1533 and while the attainder of his father-in-law was under review in 1539. Little has come to light about his part in its proceedings. In 1529 he was one of the signatories to the draft of a measure to resolve problems arising from uses. He signed six Acts passed during the third session of the Parliament of 1547 and the bill assuring lands to the city of London which was to be enacted a year after his death. His career was to show him as a constant supporter of government policies, whatever their religious implications. He adopted with apparent sincerity Reformation principles, and to his influence John Bale attributed his conversion. Subsequently he took some part in the proceedings against heretics, but probably with much reluctance. In 1530 he was one of those who signed the letter to Clement VII asking for the pope's consent to the royal divorce of the King Henry VIII and Catalina of Aragon. He took part in the impeachment of both the Queens and all the noblemen brought to trial from 1536 onwards. His decision against Anne Boleyn may not have been without bias as he was a cousin of Jane Seymour.
• In 1532 he attended the King on his visit to Calais to meet Francois I. On the outbreak of rebellion in the summer of 1536 he was ordered to attend the King with 100 of his men and in the following Oct the 3rd Duke of Norfolk asked the King to empower Wentworth ‘to take the chief rule’ in Suffolk during his own absence in the north. A year later he attended the christening of Prince Edward, handing the water to the godfathers, Cranmer and Norfolk. Present at the reception of Anne of Cleves in Jan 1540, he was host to the King and Catherine Howard at Nettlestead later in the same year. In 1543 he campaigned in the Netherlands and in 1544 in France.
• From 1523, when Wentworth had first been put on the Suffolk bench, he was in local management. It was perhaps in return for some favour from Cromwell that in 1531 Wentworth gave him an annuity of £5 from the manor of Nettlestead. He corresponded on a number of topics with Cromwell, to whom he was to write as late as Feb 1540, ‘I shall not fail to favour whomsoever you shall hereafter command me to befriend’. In 1538 a certain William Lawrence reported to the minister that Wentworth had helped in the secret transport of an image of the Virgin Mary by ship to London and that he had done much good in quietening controversies in Ipswich, ordering their instigators to reform and to ‘speak the sincere gospel’. In the same year Wentworth himself wrote to Cromwell, as founder in blood of the Greyfriars of Ipswich, to object to the friars’ sale of their plate and jewels: the order, he declared, was ‘neither stock nor graft which the heavenly Father had planted, but only a hypocritical seed planted of ... the Bishop of Rome’, adding that he had purchased the site of the priory for himself and his heirs. Wentworth's religious views influenced the careers of two men who were to become notable Protestant preachers and writers. It was at his request that in 1538 the parishioners of St. Lawrence, Ipswich, appointed the newly ordained Thomas Becon as priest of the chantry of Edmund Daundy; Wentworth described Becon to Cromwell as a man ‘well learned, a true preacher of the word of God, a great setter forth ... of the King's most just and lawful title of supremacy, approved by God's word’. John Bale, later a prebendary of Canterbury and Bishop of Ossory, must have known Wentworth while a friar in Ipswich; in his writings he acknowledged that Wentworth had brought about his conversion. Wentworth's official attitude towards dissent may have caused him some heart searchings, and Foxe was probably right when he described, in his account of the trial of two Protestant martyrs at Ipswich in 1545, how after giving judgment for burning Wentworth ‘did shroud himself behind one of the posts of the gallery and wept’ during its execution.
• With the succession of Edward VI Wentworth could look forward to advancement as a kinsman of the Protector Somerset and a friend of reform. In accordance with the late King's wishes he received the stewardship of all the lands of the Bishop of Ely in Norfolk and Suffolk; he was also given temporary custody of the younger children of the Earl of Surrey. He did not benefit by Henry's will, but in Feb 1546/7 William Paget declared that it was the late King's intention that Wentworth should be granted the stewardship of all the bishop of Ely's lands. When the crisis came in 1549, however, it was not Somerset but the Earl of Warwick whom Wentworth followed. He accompanied the Marquess of Northampton in the first attempt to suppress Kett's rebellion and he sat on the commission which subsequently tried prisoners at Yarmouth. He was admitted to the Privy Council somewhat earlier than his first recorded appearance at its meeting of 9 Oct. 1549, for on the previous 7 Aug he had joined with Somerset and others in signing a letter to the mayor of Southampton about a prize court case, but his allegiance to Warwick is proved by his inclusion among the six lords appointed on 15 Oct to be governors of the King's person and education. He was also made one of a quorum of two among the group of Councillors responsible for the finances of the Household and the army, a commitment which was to be followed by his appointment as chamberlain of the Household in succession to the 18th Earl of Arundel, who had sided with Somerset. He held this post for little more than a year before his death in 1551.
• Wentworth had shown no personal interest in acquiring monastic property, except for the Blackfriars at Ipswich and a lease for 21 years from Mar 1537 of Newsom manor in Lincolnshire. In Apr 1550 he was granted the lordships and manors of Hackney and Stepney, valued at over £245 yearly, and two months later, in recognition of his service under two monarchs, the former abbot's house at Westminster. He died in the palace at Westminster on 3 Mar 1551 and was buried in great state in the abbey. According to Edward VI all but one of his 17 children survived Wentworth. By a will made on 16 May 1544 he had left marriage portions of 200 marks to his nine daughters and £10 yearly to his seven younger sons on their majority. These bequests were payable from manors in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Wentworth left to his wife for life all the manors (unspecified) which he had acquired from Nicholas Astley, clerk, and a share of all household goods except plate. He directed that some of his property in Ipswich should be sold to pay off a mortgage on lands in Kent. Any ambiguities in the will were to be referred to James Hales, serjeant-at-law. It was proved on 27 Nov 1551 by Wentworth's eldest son Thomas, the executorship having been renounced by the widow and John Gosnold. A drawing by Holbein and several portraits of Wentworth survive.

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