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Roger Wentworth Esq. & 1901321. Margery Despenser
~1390, Roger born in England, s/o 3802640. John Wentworth & 3802641. Agnes Dronfield.
1399, Margery born in England, heir & d/o 3802642. Philip le Despenser & 3802643.
Elizabeth Tibetot.
9/13/1404, Margery “married” Sir John Roos, 7th
Lord Roos of Hemsley. [No children.]
4/9/1413, Henry V crowned king of England.
3/22/1421, John, baron de Ros, killed in France serving
under the Duke of Clarence at the siege of Beauge. (S) Burkes Genealogical and
Heraldic History, 1914, P608.
11/22/1421, The king assigned to the said Margery in dower
£73 6s. 8d. a year of £100 yearly rent to be taken of the fee farm of the city
of York. (S) CCRs, 4/29/1446.
8/31/1422, Henry VI (an infant) succeeded Henry V as King of
England.
[––Roger & Margery––]
6/1/1423, Roger married Margery acquiring the manor of
Nettlestead, Suffolk. (S) DNB.
6/25/1423, Pardon, for £1000 … to Margery, late the wife of
John de Roos, knight, tenant in chief of Henry V, and to Roger Wentworth,
esquire, for intermarrying without the king’s licence. (S) CPRs.
1424, Margery 24 or 26, heir to her father, inheriting the
manor of Parlington.
4/2/1424, Order to the escheator of Northampton to take into
the king’s hand all the lands in the bailiwick which Margery late the wife of
John de Roos, ‘chivaler,’ holds in dower as the said Margert has married Roger
Wentworth without the king’s licence [they must not have paid the fine.] Same
order to the escheators of counties of Leicester, Buckingham, York, Kent,
Nottingham, and the city of York. (S) CFRs.
10/20/1424, To the escheator in Kent. Order to take the
fealties of … and Thomas Wentworth, and to give them livery of the manors of
Chetham and Kyngeston … found by inquisition, …, that Philip le Despenser
knight at his death held … the said manors … for life by the courtesy of
England after the death of Elizabeth his wife, mother of Margery now wife of
Roger Wentworth esquire their daughter and heir, with remainder to John
Loterell and the others and to the heirs of Thomas Wentworth by fine levied at
Westminster … (S) CCRs.
10/29/1424, To eacheator of the county of York to take the
fealty of Roger Wentworth, esquire, who has taken to wife Margery the daughter
and heir of Philip le Despenser, knight, and Elizabeth late his wife, … Rogery
and Margery to have full seisin … the king for 2 marks … has respited … the
homage from Roger by reason of his having issue by Margery. (S) CFRs.
11/3/1424, To the escheator in Lincolnshire. Order to meddle
no further with the manors of Gedeneye and Alkebarough …, delivering to Roger
Wentworth esquire and Margery his wife any issues thereof taken; … learned by
inquisition, …, by charter indented made a demise thereof to Philip le
Despenser knight for life, with remainder to Margery his daughter, now wife of
Roger Wentworth, and to the heirs of her body by John de Roos son of William de
Roos lord of Hamelake, … that John de Roos died without issue by her, … (S)
CCRs.
1427-8, “Receipt by Roger Wentworth, esquire, to the sheriffs
of the city of York, for 55 marks, the Easter instalment of an annuity of 110
marks assigned in dower to Margery, Lady Roose, his wife, out of the fee-farm
of the city. York.” (S) UKNA.
1343, Roger Wentworth, esquire on a commission. (S) Incomes
From Land In England, Gray, 1934.
5/3/1436, To Roger Wentworth, donsel, lord of Parlyngton in
the diocese of York, and Margery, lady of Roos, his wife. Grant, at their
recent petition—containing that they contracted marriage lawfully per verba de
presenti, consummated it and had offspring, but could not have the marriage
solemnized before the church after the custom of the country because, being
unequal in nobility, they feared that scandals might arise between their
kinsmen and friends; that afterwards they had the said marriage, thus
consummated, solemnized within the bounds of the parish church of Hemyngburgh
in the said diocese, without banns, and without the solemnizations wont by the
custom of the country to be made before the church, further offspring being born
thereof; and adding that they are moved by a scruple of conscience to doubt
whether anyone may hesitate as to the validity of the marriage thus
contracted—that the said marriage contracted between them and all its
consequences hold good as if it had not been clandestine, but had been
proclaimed and solemnized before the church, with banns and the wonted
solemnizations, all the said offspring, and likewise future offspring, being
hereby decreed legitimate. (S) Lateran Regesta, 342, 6 Eugenius 4.
10/9/1438, Robert Breton of Aurom, co. York, fined for not
appearing to answer Roger Wentworth, esquire, touching a plea of debt of £13
4d. (S) CPRs.
5/16/1443, “… in
Suffolk. Warranty clause. Witnesses: Roger Wentworth, esq. …” (S) UKNA.
4/29/1446, To the sheriffs of the city of York … Order to
pay to Roger Wentworth, who has taken to wife Margery who was wife of John de
Roos knight, and to the said Margery during her life £73 6s. 8d. a year, and to pay
them the arrears for Easter and Michaelmas terms last; … (S) CCRs.
6/30/1446, “Margery Hovell of Nettlestead, widow; and Roger
Wentworth, esquire, Margery Lady Roos his wife, Philip Wentworth, esquire,
their son, … Margery has granted to Roger, Margery, Philip, … in Cretyng Omnium
Sanctorum, Cretyng Sancte Marie, Stonham, Codynham, Beylham, Blakynham Magna,
Blakynham Parva, Netlystede, Somerysham and Bramford (Suff.)” (S) UKNA.
12/8/1449 at London, Debtor: Thomas, Lord Roos. Creditor:
Roger Wentworth, esquire, Philip Wentworth, esquire, … Amount: 500m. … (S)
UKNA.
10/24/1452, Roger died.
[––Margery––]
1455, Margeria, Dame de Roos, widow of Roger, sealed a
document. (S) Catalogue of Seals, Dept. of Manuscripts, British Museum.
1458, Philip, his mother Margery and his children “of both
sexes” received a papal indult to choose their confessor.
3/14/1461, Edward [earl of March] proclaimed himself King
Edward IV as the rightful heir.
1461, Margery’s son Philip, a Lancastrian, attained in
parliament.
5/18/1464, Margery’s son Philip executed; his son Henry his
heir.
10/3/1470, Henry VI regained the throne of England.
8/30/1477, Margery wrote her will: My body to be buried in
the Chapel of St. Margaret and St. Bernard at Cambridge … to Henry Wentworth,
my heir, 12 dishes of silver, and I will that the said Henry shall cause at his
own proper expense, the body of [his] father Dni Philip Wentworth, Knight, to
be transferred to the Church of Newsam, in Lincolnshire, … and another marble
to be laid upon the body of his mother, in the Church of Friars Minors at
Ispwich ; to my son Thomas Wentworth, Chaplain, to John Constable, son of my
daughter Agnes Constable ; … (S) Testamenta Vetusta, V1, P347.
5/11/1471, Edward IV regained the crown after the Battle of
Tewkesbury.
4/20/1478, Margery died; buried at Grey Friars, Ipswich,
Suffolk.
(S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P613.
Child of Roger
and Margery: [3 sons, 3 daughters]
i. Philip Wentworth (950660), born 1424 in England.
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