950660.
Sir Philip Wentworth & 950661. Mary Clifford
3/13/1422, Mary’s father died.
By 1422, Mary born in England, d/o 1901322. John Clifford & 1901323. Elizabeth Percy.
8/31/1422, Henry VI (an infant) succeeded Henry V as King of
England.
1424, Philip born in England, heir & s/o 1901320. Roger Wentworth & 1901321. Margery
Despenser.
6/30/1446, “Margery Hovell of Nettlestead, widow; and Roger
Wentworth, esquire, Margery Lady Roos his wife, Philip Wentworth, esquire,
their son, …” (S) UKNA.
1447, Philip married Mary. [Sir William Dugdale, did not
assign any daughters to John, 7th Lord Clifford and his wife. However, the fact
that the Seymours were claiming such a royal descent in the 1530s is the
earliest evidence for a Wentworth–Clifford marriage. The marriage is documented
in the 1558 & 1612 Visitations of Essex, and in the 1561 Visitation of
Suffolk.]
1447, Philip M.P. for Suffolk.
11/9/1447, Philip appointed Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk.
12/1448, Philip Wentworth, late Sheriff, renders a further
account, showing the payment to John Lidegate, monk of Bury St. Edmund’s ...
(S) Early English Text Society, Iss66, 1894, P30.
8/12/1449, “Debtor: Thomas, Lord Roos. Creditor: Roger
Wentworth, esquire, Philip Wentworth, esquire, …” (S) UKNA.
11/1449 at Parliament, [Issue of voiding patents in the
duchy of Lancaster] … “Nor to the grant or grants made by us by our letters
patent to Philip Wentworth, esquire for our body, or to anything granted by us
to him alone, or granted by us to him and any other person or persons jointly
with him, or be prejudicial in any way to any of them thereupon; but that the
said letters patent thus made shall be good and effective according to the
tenor of the same.” (S) Parliament Rolls, Henry VI, November 1449.
5/1450, Philip, Constable of Llanstefan castle.
8/1453, King Henry VI had a mental breakdown. [Richard, Duke
of York, appointed Protector of the Realm.]
By 1455, Sir Philip knighted, his shield, ‘Sable a Chevron
between three leopards faces Or.’
4/20/1455, Philip Wentworth, knight, and William Skolys to
John Forneset, enfeoffment of land in Tybenham. (S) UKNA.
5/22/1455, Philip carried the royal standard at the 1st
battle of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, considered the 1st battle of the 30-year
War of the Roses. He is said to have dropped the royal standard and fled as the
center collapsed. (S) Henry VI, Seebohn, 1922, P256. Yorkists against an army
of King Henry VI. The Duke of Somerset, the Earl of Northumberland, Lord
Clifford, plus about 50 other notable Lancastrians, were killed in the
fighting.
7/1455 at Parliament, A bills put in by Philip Wentworth,
was under active consideration in the second and third sessions, but had to be
brought back to the next parliament. “Provided also that this petition and act
of resumption shall not extend or be prejudicial to Philip Wentworth, knight,
with regard to our grant or letters patent made by us to him, to be bailiff and
our escheator of Staincliffe in Craven, in the county of York, and the
wapentake there, for term of his life, with the traditional and customary fees
and wages for the same office”. (S) Parliament Rolls, Henry VI, July 1455.
1457, Philip sent on embassy to Scotland.
8/5/1457, Philip and others chosen to offer the king’s
obedience to the Pope.
11/28/1457, Letters of attorney to Philip Wentworth, knight,
going abroad. (S) Parl. Papers, V44, 1887, P423.
1458, Philip, his mother Margery and his children “of both
sexes” received a papal indult to choose their confessor.
11/1459, “Philip Wentworth, knight … Wentworth states that
following the death of Fastolf of Broke Hall that he defended the rights of the
king in the lands, and bought the marriage of the heir for himself. … Wentworth prays that the letters patent and
the record of the agreement be annulled.” (S) Parliament Rolls, Henry VI,
November 1459.
12/20/1459, Philip appointed Chief Steward of Clare and
Constable of Clare Castle.
7/10/1460, Philip fought at Northampton, a Yorkist victory.
Yorkist forces numbering over 20,000 faced a smaller royal army with their
backs against the river Nene. The battle lasted less than an hour. 300
Lancastrians were killed. King Henry VI captured.
2/17/1461, 2nd battle of St. Albans, Hertfordshire
– a Lancastrian victory. King Henry was rescued at the battle.
3/14/1461, Edward [earl of March] proclaimed himself King
Edward IV as the rightful heir.
3/29/1461, Philip fought at Towton, a Yorkist victory. This
battle was the largest and bloodiest fought on British soil. As many as 28,000
died at the battle between Towton and Saxton in Yorkshire. Yorkist forces, with
a wind at their back in a blinding snow storm giving their archers and spearmen
a significant advantage.
6/28/1461, Edward IV crowned at Westminster, beginning the
House of York.
1461, Philip fled to Scotland with the King and Queen, and was
attained in the next parliament.
6/28/1461, Edward IV, age 19, replaced Henry VI as King of
England in London. [1st Yorkist King.]
11/1462, Philip held Dunstanburgh for Margaret of Anjou with
Sir Richard Tunstall and John Morton.
4/25/1464, Philip and his son Henry at the Battle of
Hedgeley Moor, in the forces of the Henry, Duke of Somerset. The Duke of
Somerset’s men were quickly defeated at a heavy cost.
5/14/1464, Philip at the battle of Hexham, Northumberland, taken
prisoner by Yorkists. Yorkist John Neville had about 3000 men. Lancanstrians,
the Duke of Somerset and Lord Hungerford’s men were quickly defeated at a heavy
cost. Philip’s son Henry was also taken prisoner.
5/18/1464, Philip, with 6 squires, beheaded at Middleham
castle, Yorkshire. (S) The Wars of the Roses, Weir, 1995, P326.
[––Mary––]
1465, Edward IV again captured Henry VI and put him in the
Tower of London.
Mary died, buried at the Friars Minor at Ipswich, Suffolk.
(S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P614. (S) N&Qs, Iss167, 1853.
Children of Philip
and Mary:
i. Henry Wentworth (475330), born 1448 in England.
ii. Margaret Wentworth, born ? in England.
Margaret married Thomas Cotton.
