Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth 1501-1551

Before 1501 [his father] Richard Wentworth 5th Baron Despencer [aged 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 [aged 21] and Anne Tyrrell Baroness Despencer at Nettlestead, Suffolk.

Before 27th February 1501 [his grandfather] Henry Wentworth 4th Baron Despencer [aged 53] died. His son [his father] Richard [aged 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 [aged 19] and [his future wife] Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth [aged 18] at Nettlestead, Suffolk. She married John Poley and had issue.

In 1525 [his son] Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth [aged 24] and [his future wife] Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth [aged 23]. He married (1) 9th February 1546 his third cousin once removed Mary Wentworth Baroness Wentworth (2) 1556 his third cousin once removed Anne Wentworth Baroness Wentworth and had issue.

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

Between 1532 and 1543. Hans Holbein The Younger [aged 35]. Portrait of Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth [aged 31].

In or before 1538 Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth [aged 36] and Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth [aged 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 [aged 37] and [his wife] Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth [aged 36].

In 1540 [his son] James Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth [aged 39] and [his wife] Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth [aged 38].

On 9th February 1546 [his son] Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth [aged 21] and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Wentworth Baroness Wentworth [aged 21] were married. They were third cousin once removed.

Around 1550 John "The Elder" Bettes [aged 19]; some doubt over attribution. Portrait of Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth [aged 49].

In 1550 Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth [aged 49] was appointed Lord Chamberlain.

Annales of England by John Stow. 2nd February 1550. On Candlemas day, William L. Saint-John earle of Wiltshire [aged 67], L. great master, and president of the Counsell, was made Lord Treasurer: John Dudley earle of Warwike [aged 46], lord great chamberlaine, was made lorde great master; William Parre Marques of Northhampton [aged 38], was made Lorde great Chamberlaine: Lord Wentworth [aged 49] was made L. chamberlaine of houshold: Sir Anthony Wingfield [aged 63] captaine of the guard, was made comptroller of the kings house; and Thomas Darcy [aged 43] knight, was made viz chamberlaine, and captaine of the Guard: and the earle of Arundel late lord Chamberlaine, with the Earle of Southampton [aged 44], were put of the counsell, and commanded to heepe their houses in London.

The submission of the D. of Somerset [aged 50] prisoner in the tower, made the 2, of Febuary.

On 3rd March 1551 Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth [aged 50] died. He was buried at Chapel of St John the Baptist, Westminster Abbey [Map]. His son Thomas [aged 26] succeeded 2nd Baron Wentworth. His son Thomas de jure 7th Baron Despencer. Mary Wentworth Baroness Wentworth [aged 26] by marriage Baroness Wentworth.

Diary of Edward VI. 3rd March 1551. The lord Wentworth [aged 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. 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 [aged 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 [aged 49] died.

[his daughter] Jane Wentworth Baroness Cheyne was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth. She married in or before 1572 Henry Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne.

[his daughter] Cicely Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth. She married before 1570 her fifth cousin once removed Robert Wingfield and had issue.

[his daughter] Margery Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth. She married (1) 19th April 1557 John Williams 1st Baron Williams and had issue (2) 10th October 1560 her fifth cousin William Drury and had issue (3) 1580 James Croft.

[his daughter] Mary Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth. She married William Cavendish and had issue.

[his daughter] Dorothy Wentworth was born to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth.