Notes for Nicholas de Wortley and Elizabeth de Wannerville
1332 "Ralph de Bulmere and Nicholas de Wurteley are by letters patent of the 7. Oct. 1332, commissioned and directed to raise 300 archers and 700 foot, in the County of York, with all expedition, to go with the King to oppose the Scots, if they should attempt anything in the Marshes." [1]
Sir Nicholas de Wortley married Elizabeth de Wannerville, who brought half the manor and advowson of Hemsworth, with other lands. [2]
This Wortley lineage is based on a Wortley pedigree published by Foster. [3] Footnotes:
[1] Alfred Gatty, Wortley & the Wortleys: A Lecture (1877), 9, citing Rymer's F., vol. iv., p. 534, [Internet_Archive].
[2] Alfred Gatty, Wortley & the Wortleys: A Lecture (1877), 8, [Internet_Archive].
[3] Joseph Foster. Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding (London: 1874), Wortley, [Internet_Archive].
Nicholas was born in 1290. Nicholas Wortley ... [1]
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