Individual Details

Henry Wentworth

(1447 - 1 Aug 1500)

[[Category: Knights of the Bath]] } == Biography == Titles of Henry Wentworth (Royal Ancestry): :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 Sir Henry Wentworth (called by modern writers "de jure 4th Baron le Despenser") was born abt. 1447-48 in Nettlestead, Suffolk, England (age 30 in 1478). Henry's father was [[Wentworth-52|Philip Wentworth]]Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 236
Henry's mother was [[Clifford-254|Mary Clifford]] Henry married [[Saye-46|Anne (Saye) Wentworth]] before 1484Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 381.. They had 2 sons * Sir Richard * Edward and 4 daughters* Elizabeth, wife of Roger Darcy Esq, of Sir Thomas Wyndham, and of Sir John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath * Margery, wife of Sir John Seymour of Wolf Hall * Dorothy, 2nd wife of Sir Robert Broughton * Jane It's not known when Anne died, but Sir Henry obtained a licence to marry Elizabeth Neville (widow of Thomas le Scrope, 6th Lord Scrope of Masham) on 2nd, or 22nd, October 1494. They had no children. Henry, K.B., died between 17 August 1499 and 27 February 1501 and was buried at Newhouse Abbey, Lincolnshire, England. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 237-238. Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 218. Sir Henry was the grandfather of Queen Jane Seymour via his daughter [[Wentworth-28|Margery (Wentworth) Seymour]] === Sources === *Royal Ancestry 2013 Vol. IV p. 219-220 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wentworth Wikipedia entry]* [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1615.htm#i48537 Marlyn Lewis]*The visitations of Suffolk, pg 77[https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofsuf00harvuoft#page/76/mode/2up]

Events

Birth1447Nettlested, Suffolk, England
Birth1448Nettlested, Suffolk, England
Residence1477Ireland
Marriage20 Feb 1484Deighton, Yorkshire, , England - Anne Say
Marriage20 Feb 1484Deighton, Yorkshire, England - Anne Say
Death1 Aug 1500Suffolk, England
Death1 Aug 1500Newson Abbey, Lincolnshire, England
Death27 Feb 1501Suffolk, England
London: - Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem, City of LondonSt. Andrews, Cornhill Calais London Andrew Underhast Lymstret, London, England

Families

SpouseAnne Say (1453 - 1478)
SpouseElizabeth Neville (1464 - 1515)
ChildMargaret Wentworth (1495 - 1532)

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