Philip Wentworth
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Sir Philip Wentworth of Nettlestead, Suffolk (c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1424 – 18 May 1464) was an English knight and courtier. Wentworth was a great-grandfather of Queen Jane Seymour,[1] third wife of King Henry VIII. He was beheaded at Middleham, Yorkshire.
Biography
Philip Wentworth was a son of Roger Wentworth (died 24 October 1452) of North Elmsall, Yorkshire, and wife Margery le Despencer (died 1478), daughter and heiress of Philip le Despencer, 2nd Baron le Despencer, and wife Elizabeth de Tibetot.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[2]
Wentworth was Usher of the King's Chamber, King's Sergeant, Esquire of the Body, King's Carver, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk (1459–1460), Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, Constable of Llanstephen and Clare castles, Chief Steward of the Honour of Clare.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Wentworth supported the house of Lancaster and was in the army of King Henry VI, which was defeated at the Battle of Hexham on 15 May 1464. He was captured and three days later beheaded at Middleham, Yorkshire on 18 May 1464.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Family
Wentworth married Mary Clifford, daughter of John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford, and wife Elizabeth Percy, daughter of Henry Percy (Hotspur) and wife Lady Elizabeth Mortimer.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Mary was buried at the Ipswich Greyfriars at Ipswich, Suffolk.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
They had a son and two daughters who survived him: Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Sir Henry Wentworth,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". de jure 4th Baron Despenser, of Nettlestead, Suffolk, who married, firstly, Anne Say, by whom he had two sons, Sir Richard and Edward, and four daughters, Elizabeth, Margery, Dorothy and Jane; secondly, Elizabeth Neville, by whom he had no issue. His daughter, Margery Wentworth, married Sir John Seymour of Wolf Hall with whom she had several notable children, including Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII and Queen of England.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Margaret Wentworth, who married Thomas Cotton of Landwade, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Elizabeth Wentworth,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". who married, as his second wife, Sir Martin de la See of Barmston, East Riding of Yorkshire.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". They are ancestors to Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.[3][4]
Notes
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- ↑ Royal Ancestry of Meghan Markle
- ↑ Belfast Telegraph Meghan Markle’s royal links to medieval king and 16th century queen of England
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Further reading
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