Margaret (Fortescue) Wentworth (abt. 1502 - 1551)

Born about 1502 in Stonor, Oxfordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Wentworth PC — married 1520 in Suffolk, England

Descendants

Died 12 May 1551 at about age 49 in Woolley, Yorkshire, England

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Biography

Margaret (Fortescue) Wentworth was born in Oxfordshire, England.

Margaret Fortescue was born in 1502 at Stonor, Oxfordshire, England. She was the daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue (1476-1539) and Anne Stonor (1484-1518).

When Margaret was 19 in 1520 she married Sir Thomas Wentworth PC in Nettlestead, Suffolk, England and they had a large family of 17 children. They had (living) 8 sons and 9 daughters ^{[1] [2]}

CHILDREN: ^[3]
If more accurate birth and death dates are found, please replace them. This is so far, the only source I have found with dates.

1. Anne Wentworth 1520-1575 wife of John Poley, Esq^[4]
2. Jane Wentworth 1521-1558 wife of Sir Henry Cheyne aka Cheney.
3. Elizabeth Wentworth 1524-1570 wife of 1. John Cock, & 2. Leonard Matthew
4. Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth baptised 1525 died 13 Jan 1584 ^[5]
5. Cecily (Wentworth) Wingfield 1527-1573 m. Sir Robert Wingfield.
6. Mary (Wentworth) Cavendish (bef 1531) 1527-1611 Mary, wife of William (Cavendish Gernon) Cavendish
7. Henry Wentworth 1528-1584 Nettlestead, Suffolk.
8. Richard Wentworth bef. 1531-1614 Nettlestead, Suffolk.
9. Katherine Wentworth c.1532- unmarried
10. Margaret Wentworth c.1534 Guess.
11. Margery (Wentworth) 1537-1675 m. John Williams, 1st (and last) Baron Williams of Thame (c. 1500-14 Oct 1559) ^[6]
12. Dorothy Wentworth 1532- d. 3 Jan 1601 1m. Paul Withypoll, 2m Sir Martin Frobisher, ^[7] & 3m. Sir John Savile ^[8]
13. Philip Wentworth, Gent. 1536 - 10 Oct 1583 Nettlestead, Suffolk
14. Roger Wentworth 1537-1577 Nettlestead, Suffolk
15. John Wentworth 1538-1563 Killed in action
16. Edward Wentworth 1539-1583 Nettlestead, Suffolk.
17. James Wentworth (1540-1563) Killed in action

Baroness Margaret (Fortescue) Wentworth only lived until she was 49 years of age and passed away in 1551. Her husband also died that year, aged 50.

She was spared the grief and agony of seeing the day when her father, Sir Adrian Fortescue, (a Courtier in Henry VIII's court), was executed by the Act of Attainder for the "crime" it seems, of being a Catholic and knowing others who were charged with such treason.
At the same time, Sir Thomas Dingley, knight of St. John, was condemned by the same act of attainder, on the more definite charge of travelling to foreign courts in the "interests of the king's enemies."
Attainder was an act passed by parliament against a person for a crime, or supposed crime. It was a way to sentence someone to death for a crime without them actually standing trial with the result that the King could "attain" their property.

Sources

1. ↑ The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 497-499.
2. ↑ The visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond herald, 1612, with notes and an appendix of additional Suffolk pedigrees by Harvey, William, d. 1567; British Museum. MSS (Harleian 1103); Cook, Robert, d. 1593; Raven, J. E. (John Earle); Metcalfe, Walter Charles Publication date 1882 (https://archive.org/details/visitationsofsuf00harvuoft/page/n9/mode/2up)
3. ↑ Wentworth Children (https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L28Z-7PQ/baroness--margaret-fortescue-1502-1551)
4. ↑ The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 497-499.
5. ↑ 2nd Baron Wentworth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wentworth,_2nd_Baron_Wentworth) Citing: Wikipedia contributors, "Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Wentworth,_2nd_Baron_Wentworth&oldid=955070918 (accessed May 30, 2020).
6. ↑ "John Williams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams,_1st_Baron_Williams_of_Thame)
7. ↑ Martin Frobisher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Frobisher) Citing this page: Wikipedia contributors, "Martin Frobisher," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Martin_Frobisher&oldid=960230847 (accessed June 5, 2020).
8. ↑ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 1938 ed., by Sir Bernard Burke, p., 1723.

See also:

• Visitation of Essex: Wentworth [1]
• British History online: Condicote
• Visitation of Oxfordshire Page 144: Stonor
• Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p 36, Fortescue.

Acknowledgments

• Church of Latter Day Saints - Royal Pedigree Line
• James Stratman, Magna Carta Reviewer
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry (2013) Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol IV, page 220-21, Margaret Fortescue.