Biography of Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth 1501-1551

Before 1501 [his father] Richard Wentworth 5th Baron Despencer (age 20) and [his mother] Anne Tyrrell Baroness Despencer were married. They were fifth cousins. 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.

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 17th October 1528 [his father] Richard Wentworth 5th Baron Despencer (age 48) died. His son Thomas (age 27) de jure 6th Baron Despencer.

Between 1532 and 1543. Hans Holbein The Younger (age 35). Portrait of Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 31).

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 9th February 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.

In 1550 Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 49) was appointed Lord Chamberlain.

Around 1550 John "The Elder" Bettes (age 19); some doubt over attribution. Portrait of Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 49).

Annales of England by John Stow. 2nd February 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.

Diary of Edward VI. 3rd March 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.

On 3rd March 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 (age 26) succeeded 2nd Baron Wentworth. His son Thomas de jure 7th Baron Despencer. [his daughter-in-law] Mary Wentworth Baroness Wentworth (age 26) by marriage Baroness Wentworth.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 7th March 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 12th 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.