- Philip Wentworth
Philip Wentworth (1424 - 18 May 1464), Knight, of Nettlestead,
Suffolk , Usher of the King's Chamber, King's Sergeant, Esquire of the Body, King's Carver, Sheriff ofNorfolk andSuffolk , Knight of the Shire forSuffolk , Constable of Llanstephen andClare Castle s, Chief Steward of the honour of Clare, son of Roger Wentworth, Esq., of Parlington,Yorkshire , and Nettlestead,Suffolk , by Margery, Lady Ros, daughter and heiress of Philip Despencer, Knight. He married Mary, daughter ofJohn Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford .From Douglas Richardson's "Plantagenet Ancestry":
In 1458 he and his mother, Margery, Lady Ros, and their children "of both sexes" received a papal indult that a confessor of their choice may absolve them from all their vows and grant them absolution for their sins.
Philip Wentworth served in the army of King
Henry VI of England , and died intestate 18 May 1464, being beheaded atMiddleham ,Yorkshire , after theBattle of Hexham , where he had been taken prisoner by theYorkists . His wife, Mary, was buried at the Friars Minor atIpswich ,Suffolk .Issue
1) Henry Wentworth
2) Elizabeth Wentworth m.Martin De La See , Knight, ofBarmston, East Riding of Yorkshire , son of Brian De La See, by Maud, daughter of John MonceauxReferences
1. Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore Md., 2004, p. 380. ISBN 0-8063-1750-7
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