Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth
- Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth
Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth (1525-13 January, 1584), was the eldest son of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue.
Career
Thomas served with distinction under his relative the Lord Protector Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547; but in 1551 he was one of the peers who condemned Somerset to death on a charge of felony.
He was a trusted counsellor of Mary I of England, who appointed him deputy of Calais. Wentworth was the last Englishman to hold this post, for on the 7 January, 1558 he was compelled to surrender Calais to Francis, Duke of Guise, his representations as to the defenceless condition of the fortress having been disregarded by the English Privy Council some years earlier.
Wentworth himself remained in France as a prisoner of war for more than a year, and on his return to the Kingdom of England in 1559 he was sent to the Tower of London for having surrendered Calais. He was eventually acquitted of treason. He died on the 13th of January 1584.
Children
His eldest son William Wentworth married Elizabeth Cecil, a daughter of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, but predeceased his father on 7 November, 1582. The peerage consequently passed to his second son Henry Wentworth, 3rd Baron Wentworth (1558-1593), who was one of the judges of Mary I of Scotland, at Fotheringay in 1586. Henry was married to Anne Hopton and was father to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland.
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