Mary (Clifford) Wentworth (1416 - 1478)

Born 1416 in Appleby, Westmorland, England

Ancestors

Wife of Philip Wentworth — married about 1445 in England

Descendants

Died 4 Oct 1478 at about age 62 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England

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Biography

Mary Clifford was the daughter of Sir John Clifford KG, 7th Baron Clifford, and his wife Elizabeth Percy, daughter of Hotspur. She married Sir Philip Wentworth of Nettlestead, born about 1424, son of Margery le Despenser, the widowed Lady Roos, by her fantastically expensive bit of rough. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4][5]}

Issue:^[4]

• Sir Henry (ancestor of King Edward VI)
• Margaret, wife of Thomas Cotton Esq^[6]
• Elizabeth, wife of Sir Martin de la See of Barmston.^[7]

Sir Philip was beheaded by the Yorkists after Hexham in 1464.^[8] His widow Mary was buried at the Friars Minors Priory at Ipswich, Suffolk.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Arthur Collins, A Supplement to the Four Volumes of The Peerage of England, Vol. 2 (London: Printed for W. Innys, J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Wotton, R. Manby and H.S. Cox, and E. Withers, 1850), 443; https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Supplement_to_the_Four_Volumes_of_The/4DUVAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA443
2. ↑ Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_History_and_Antiquities_of_the_Count/zeEuAAAAMAAJ The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, Vol. 1] of 2 (London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1777), 282; https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_History_and_Antiquities_of_the_Count/zeEuAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=clifford%20wentworth
3. ↑ Walter Charles Metcalfe, The Visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634. To Which Are Added Miscellaneous Essex Pedigrees from Various Harleian Manuscripts: And an Appendix Containing Berry’s Essex Pedigrees, 1878, 314; https://archive.org/details/visitationsofess13metc/page/314/mode/2up
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} William Loftie Rutton, Three Branches of the Family of Wentworth: I. Wentworth of Nettlestead, Suffolk. II. Wentworth of Gosfield, Essex. III. Wentworth of Lillingstone Lovell, Oxfordshire, 1891, 138; FamilySearch Book: 440344
5. ↑ The East Anglian, Or, Notes and Queries on Subjects Connected with the Counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk, New Series, Vol. II (Ipswich: Pawsey and Hayes, the Ancient House, 1887), 161-164, 279-282; FamilySearch Book: 814787, FamilySearch Book: 814787
6. ↑ Thomas Wotton, Edward Kimber, and Richard Johnson, The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets Now Existing ... Illustrated with Their Coats of Arms ... : To Which Is Added an Account of Such Nova Scotia Baronets as Are of English Families and a Dictionary of Heraldry ..., vol. 1 (London, 1771), 383; https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Baronetage_of_England/EvQfAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=the%20baronetage%20of%20england.%20%20volume%201&pg=RA2-PA383&printsec=frontcover
7. ↑ "Visitations of the North. Part III. A Visitation of the North of England Circa 1480-1500", The Publications of the Surtees Society, vol. CXLIV (Durham and London: Andrews & Co. and Bernard Quaritch, 1930), 78-9; https://archive.org/details/visitationsnorth03/page/78/mode/2up
8. ↑ Cora Louise Scofield, The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth, King of England and France and Lord of Ireland: The Road to the Throne. The Winning of the Crown and the Kingdom. The Struggle with Warwick, vol. 1 (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923), 334; https://archive.org/details/thelifeandreignofedwardthefo1/page/334/mode/2up
9. ↑ J. Clay, The Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, (London: James Nisbet & Co., Ltd., 1913), 24; https://archive.org/details/extinctdormantpe00clay/page/24/mode/2up

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013.
  • Vol. 2, p. 246, CLIFFORD 14: John Clifford
  • Vol. 4, p. 218, NETTLESTEAD 16: Philip Wentworth
• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011.
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