Knight of the Bath -- Knight of Nettlestead, Goxhill, Lincolnshire, Parlington and Pontefract, Yorkshire, London Sir Henry Wentworth

1450 - 1499  (49 years)

• Name	Sir Henry Wentworth  [1, 2]
  Title	Knight of the Bath -- Knight of Nettlestead, Goxhill, Lincolnshire, Parlington and Pontefract, Yorkshire, London
  Birth	1450	Suffolk, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Sheriff of Yorkshire
  Death	1 Aug 1499	Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  	Newson Abbey
  Burial	Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  	Newhouse Abbey
  Person ID	I15163	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Knight of Nettlestead, Suffolk Sir Philip de Wentworth,   b. 1423, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. 18 May 1464, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England (Age 41 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Margery de Clifford,   b. 1421, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Westmorland, England d. 13 Oct 1478, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England (Age 57 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F5255	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Baroness de Saye Lady Anne Say,   b. 1453, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England d. 1478, Suffolk, England (Age 25 years)
  Children	1. Margery Wentworth,   b. Apr 1474, Suffolk, England d. Oct 1550, Kent, England (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5533	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Neville,   b. 1464, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 20 Sep 1515, London, England (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	22 Oct 1494	Deighton (near Escrick), Yorkshire, England
  Family ID	F5534	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1450 - Suffolk, England Marriage - 22 Oct 1494 - Deighton (near Escrick), Yorkshire, England Death - 1 Aug 1499 - Lincolnshire, England Burial - - Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms Icons & Insignia		Arms-Crest of Knight of the Bath Knights of the Bath - These were special knighthoods conferred on important Royal occasions such as coronations, a practice which had died after the reign of Charles II. These knighthoods predate the modern Order of the Bath. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Knights_of_the_Bath
  		Arms-WENTWORTH Wentworth/de Wentworth Coat of Arms - Sable, a chevron between three leopard's heads

  
  

  Biographies and Histories

  Bio-WENTWORTH Henry Sir Henry Wentworth, Knight of Nettlestead, Knight of Bath, of Goxhill, Lincolnshire, of Parlington and Pontefract, Yorkshire, of London. Esquire of the Household, Knight of the Body, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Sheriff of Yorkshire

  
  

• Sources

  [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Henry Wentworth 1448-1499. Sir Henry Wentworth - Knight of Nettlestead, Knight of Bath, of Goxhill, Lincolnshire, of Parlington and Pontefract, Yorkshire, of London. Esquie of the Household, Knight of the Body, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Sheriff of Yorkshire. Son and heir to Sir Philip Wentworth and Mary Clifford, grandson of Sir Roger Wentworth and Margery Despenser, Sir John Clifford and Elizabeth Percy. Direct descendant of Henry Hotspur and Sir Hugh le Depenser. Husband of Anne Say, daughter of Sir John Say and Elizabeth Cheyne. They had two sons and four daughters; Sir Richard, Edward, Elizabeth wife of Roger Darcy and Sir Thomas Wyndham and Sir John Bouchier, Margery wife of Sir John Seymour and mother of Queen Jane Seymour, Dorothy wife of Sir Robert Broughton and Jane. Secondly, he was the husband of Elizabeth Neville, daughter of Sir John Neville and Isabel Ingaldesthorpe, widow of Sir Thomas Scrope who died in 1493. They were married in Deighton, Yorkshire by licence dated 22 Oct 1494, and had no issue. Sir Henry was in the King's army in France in 14745. Sir Henry left a will dated 17 August 1499, proved 27 Feb 1501, and was buried at Newhouse Abbey, Lincolnshire. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109859396/henry-wentworth [S164] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2004;), Source number: 709.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: CCC.