Biography of Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth 1501-1551
Paternal Family Tree: Wentworth
Maternal Family Tree: Jeanne Fougères Countess Lusignan Countess La Marche and Angoulême
Before 1501 [his father] Richard Wentworth 5th Baron Despencer (age 20) and [his mother] Anne Tyrrell Baroness Despencer were married. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
In 1501 Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth was born to Richard Wentworth 5th Baron Despencer (age 21) and Anne Tyrrell Baroness Despencer at Nettlestead, Suffolk.
Before 27 Feb 1501 [his grandfather] Henry Wentworth 4th Baron Despencer (age 53) died. His son [his father] Richard Wentworth 5th Baron Despencer (age 21) de jure 5th Baron Despencer. [his mother] Anne Tyrrell Baroness Despencer by marriage Baroness Despencer.
In 1520 [his daughter] Anne Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 19) and [his future wife] Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth (age 18) at Nettlestead, Suffolk.
In 1525 [his son] Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 24) and [his future wife] Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth (age 23).
On 17 Oct 1528 [his father] Richard Wentworth 5th Baron Despencer (age 48) died. His son Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 27) de jure 6th Baron Despencer.
On 01 Dec 1529 ...
Andrew Windsor 1st Baron Windsor (age 62) was created 1st Baron Windsor of Stanwell in Buckinghamshire. Elizabeth Blount Baroness Windsor (age 60) by marriage Baroness Windsor of Stanwell in Buckinghamshire.
John Hussey 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford (age 64) was created 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford. Anne Grey Baroness Hussey Sleaford by marriage Baroness Hussey of Sleaford.
On 02 Dec 1529 ...
Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 28) was created 1st Baron Wentworth. [his future wife] Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth (age 27) by marriage Baroness Wentworth.
Thomas Burgh 7th Baron Cobham 5th Baron Strabolgi 1st Baron Burgh (age 41) was created 1st Baron Burgh. Agnes Tyrwhitt Baroness Cobham, Strabolgi and Burgh (age 48) by marriage Baroness Burgh. This is regarded as a new creation rather than a continuation of the previous creation Baron Burgh since Thomas's father was never summoned to Parliament due to his insanity. Some sources refer to Thomas as the 3rd Baron Burgh.
On 04 Dec 1529 Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye (age 45) was created 1st Baron Braye by writ, which means that it can descend through both male and female lines.
Between 1532 and 1543. Hans Holbein The Younger (age 35). Portrait of Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 31).
On 15 May 1536 Queen Anne Boleyn (age 35) tried at the King's Hall in the Tower of London [Map].
Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk (age 63) was appointed Lord High Steward and presided. Henry Howard (age 20) attended. Henry Pole 1st Baron Montagu (age 44) was one of the judges. Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester (age 34) was the principal witness.
The jurors were:
Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 52).
Edward Clinton 1st Earl Lincoln (age 24).
Thomas Fiennes 9th Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 21).
George Hastings 1st Earl Huntingdon (age 49).
Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland (age 44).
John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 56).
Ralph Neville 4th Earl of Westmoreland (age 38).
Henry Parker 11th Baron Marshal 10th Baron Morley (age 55).
Edward Stanley 3rd Earl of Derby (age 27).
Thomas Stanley 2nd Baron Monteagle (age 28).
John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford (age 65).
Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 35).
Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester (age 40).
Henry Percy 5th Earl of Northumberland.
Thomas Burgh 7th Baron Cobham 5th Baron Strabolgi 1st Baron Burgh (age 48).
Henry Courtenay 1st Marquess Exeter (age 40).
William Fitzalan 18th Earl of Arundel (age 60).
Henry Fitzalan 19th Earl of Arundel (age 24).
Thomas Audley 1st Baron Audley Walden (age 48).
Edward Powers Lord Powers.
William Sandys 1st Baron Sandys Vyne (age 66).
Thomas Ware.
Andrew Windsor 1st Baron Windsor (age 69).
George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham (age 39).
She was found guilty and sentenced to be beheaded. John Spelman (age 56) signed the death warrant.
After Anne's trial her brother George Boleyn Viscount Rochford (age 33) was also tried and found guilty.
In or before 1538 Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 36) and Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth (age 35) were married. They were fourth cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
In 1538 [his son] John Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 37) and [his wife] Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth (age 36).
In 1540 [his son] James Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 39) and [his wife] Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth (age 38).
On 09 Feb 1546 [his son] Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth (age 21) and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Wentworth Baroness Wentworth (age 21) were married. They were third cousin once removed.
Around 1550 John "The Elder" Bettes (age 19); some doubt over attribution. Portrait of Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 49).
In 1550 Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 49) was appointed Lord Chamberlain.
Annales of England by John Stow. 02 Feb 1550. On Candlemas day, William L. Saint-John earle of Wiltshire (age 67), L. great master, and president of the Counsell, was made Lord Treasurer: John Dudley earle of Warwike (age 46), lord great chamberlaine, was made lorde great master; William Parre Marques of Northhampton (age 38), was made Lorde great Chamberlaine: Lord Wentworth (age 49) was made L. chamberlaine of houshold: Sir Anthony Wingfield (age 63) captaine of the guard, was made comptroller of the kings house; and Thomas Darcy (age 43) knight, was made viz chamberlaine, and captaine of the Guard: and the earle of Arundel late lord Chamberlaine, with the Earle of Southampton (age 44), were put of the counsell, and commanded to heepe their houses in London.
The submission of the D. of Somerset (age 50) prisoner in the tower, made the 2, of Febuary.
On 03 Mar 1551 Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 50) died. He was buried at Chapel of St John the Baptist, Westminster Abbey [Map]. His son [his son] Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth (age 26) succeeded 2nd Baron Wentworth, de jure 7th Baron Despencer. [his daughter-in-law] Mary Wentworth Baroness Wentworth (age 26) by marriage Baroness Wentworth.
Diary of Edward VI. 03 Mar 1551. The lord Wentworth (age 50)1, lord chamberlaine, died aboute tenne of the cloke at night, leaving behind him 16 children.
Note 1. Thomas first lord Wentworth of Nettlestead, so created in 21 Hen. VIII. 1529. He was nearly related to the King, his aunt Margery Wentworth having been the mother of queen Jane Seymour. He died in the King's palace at Westminster, on the 3rd of March, and was buried in the abbey on the 7th: see Machyn's Diary, pp. 3, 314.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 07 Mar 1551. The vij day of Marche was bered my lord Wentworth (deceased), the lord Chamburlayn of the kynges howse, in Westminster abbay, in the sam chapell [Map] that the old abbatt was be [red; there] was iiij of the cheyffe harolds ther, M. Garter, M. Clar [enceux,] M. Yorke, M. Chester, beyryng the cote armur, the elmett, t[arget], then cam the standard, and then mornars alle in blake ... and a C. chylderyn and prestes and clarkes in ther surpl[ices; then] the cors with iiij baners rolles, and the qwyre was hangyd [with black] and the raylles and armes. Mylles Coverdalle (age 63) dyd pryche, and ther [was a grett] dolle, and a grett compeny of lordes and knyghtes and genty[lmen] morners.
Note. Funeral of lord Wentworth. "March 3. The lord Wentworth lord chambarlaine died about tenne of the cloke at night, leaving behind him 16 children." (King Edward's Diary.)" Thomas lord Wentworth, lord chamberlan of the kinges majesties most honerable houshold, dyed in the kinges majesties paleys at Westmynster on tewsday the 3. of Marche in the 5 yere of E. the 6. and from thence broughte to his house at Westmynster and was buryed in the mynster there on Saterday the 7. of Marche folowing." (MS. Harl. 897, f. 7S^.) A longer account of his funeral is preserved in the College of Arms, I. 11, f. 115. He was buried in the chapel of St. John the Evangelist (Dart ii. 60), but has no monument. There is a portrait of him among Chamberlain's Holbein Heads.
On 12 May 1551 [his former wife] Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth (age 49) died.
[his daughter] Jane Wentworth Baroness Cheyne was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth.
[his daughter] Cicely Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth.
[his daughter] Margery Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth.
[his daughter] Mary Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth.
[his daughter] Dorothy Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth.
Kings Wessex: Great x 14 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 11 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 17 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 12 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 11 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 8 Grand Son of Philip IV King France
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Wentworth
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Wentworth
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Tyas
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Wentworth
Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Dronsfield
Great x 1 Grandfather: Philip Wentworth 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Despencer 1st Baron Despencer 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip Despencer 2nd Baron Despencer 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Unknown Baroness Despencer
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margery Despencer 3rd Baroness Despencer, Baroness Ros 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Tiptoft 3rd Baron Tibetot 
5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tiptoft Baroness Despencer 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Deincourt Baroness Tibetot 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
GrandFather: Henry Wentworth 4th Baron Despencer 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Clifford 5th Baron Clifford 
4 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Clifford 6th Baron Clifford 5 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Beauchamp Baroness Clifford 
5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Clifford 7th Baron Clifford 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Ros 4th Baron Ros Helmsley 
5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Ros Baroness Clifford 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Beatrice Stafford Countess Desmond 
2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Clifford Baroness Despencer 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Percy 1st Earl of Northumberland 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry "Hotspur" Percy 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Neville 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Percy Countess of Westmoreland 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund Mortimer 3rd Earl March, Earl Ulster 
6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Mortimer Baroness Camoys Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Philippa Plantagenet Countess March 5th Countess Ulster 
Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Father: Richard Wentworth 5th Baron Despencer 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Saye 2nd Baron Say 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Saye 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Beauchamp Baroness Say 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Saye 7 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Boteler 3rd Baron Wem and Oversley 5 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Boteler Baroness Ferrers Wem 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Saye 8 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
GrandMother: Anne Saye Baroness Despencer 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Henry Cheney
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cheney
Great x 2 Grandfather: Lawrence Cheney
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cheney 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Cockayne 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Cockayne
Great x 4 Grandmother: Cecilia Vernon 
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cockayne 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Reginald Grey 2nd Baron Grey Ruthyn 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ida Grey 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alianore Strange Baroness Grey Ruthyn 
4 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Tyrrell
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Tyrrell
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Tyrrell
Great x 4 Grandfather: John or Edmund Flambard
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Flambard
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Tyrrell
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Coggeshall
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Coggeshall
Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Eleanor Coggeshall
GrandFather: James Tyrrell
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Darcy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Darcy
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Darcy
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Tyrrell
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Tyrrell
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Darcy
Mother: Anne Tyrrell Baroness Despencer 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Arundell 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Arundell
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Lustock
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Arundell
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Lambourne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor aka Annorah Lambourne
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Arundell 8 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Burghesh 
5 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Burghesh 6 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Kerdeston
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Burghesh 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Simon Hanham
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ismania Hanham
GrandMother: Anne Arundell 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Morley 5th Baron Marshal 4th Baron Morley 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Morley 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Hastings Baroness Marshal and Morley 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Morley 6th Baron Marshal 5th Baron Morley 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Molines
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Morley 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Michael de la Pole 1st Earl Suffolk
Great x 3 Grandfather: Michael de la Pole 2nd Earl Suffolk
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Wingfield Countess Suffolk
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel Pole Baroness Marshal and Morley 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Stafford 2nd Earl Stafford 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Stafford Countess Suffolk 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Philippa Beauchamp Countess Stafford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England