Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth and de jure 6th Baron le Despencer,
The Wentworths were originally from Yorkshire but a branch of the family 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 Tyrrell, the daughter of Sir James Tyrrell, the supposed murderer of the Princes in the Tower.[1] He had two younger brothers, Philip and Richard, and five sisters, Anne, Elizabeth, Dorothy, Margery and Thomasine.[2]
Through his father he was the first cousin of Queen Jane Seymour (c. 1508 –1537), Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche (1506–1558) and Vice-Admiral Thomas Wyndham (1508–1554). Portraits of all four were in the Lumley Collection.[3]
Around 1520 Wentworth married Margaret Fortescue, the eldest daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue. They had a large family of eight sons and nine daughters,[citation needed] including Thomas, later 2nd Baron Wentworth. Among his daughters, Jane married Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne, Margery married firstly John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame and secondly Sir William Drury, Dorothy married the explorer Martin Frobisher and Anne married John Pooley.[4][unreliable source?]
In 1523, Wentworth took part in
In 1550, Lord Wentworth was appointed
Notes
- ^ a b c McNeill, Ronald John (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 520.
- ^ Richardson 2011, p. 216.
- ^ Walpole Society (Great Britain). The volume of the Walpole Society. Robarts - University of Toronto. Glasgow [etc.] pp. 22–25.
- ^ "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins (over 192,000 names). - Person Page". our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com. Marilyn Lewis. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
References
- Carter, P. R. N., - Wentworth, Thomas, first Baron Wentworth (1501–1551), nobleman - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. p. 216. ISBN 978-1449966348. Retrieved 30 July 2013.)
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External links
- Will of Sir Richard Wentworth, proved 21 November 1528, PROB 11/22/654, National Archives Retrieved 30 July 2013