'Wentworth01'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Wentworth of Elmsall, Wentworth of Wentworth Wodehouse

                               
William de Wyntword of Wyntword (a temp Henry III who r. 1216-72)
m. Emma de Wodehouse (dau of William Wodehouse of Wodehouse)
1. William de Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse
  m. Beatrix Thakel (dau of Gilbert Thakel)
  A. William de Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse (d 1295)
  m1. (1288) Dyonisia de Rotherfield (dau of Sir Peter de Rotherfield (by Agnes Walleis), son of Nicholas by Euphemia de Lisle (Insula))
  The above comes from BE1883, supported by MGH. The Visitation shows the following William as son of Roger Wentworth of Woodhouse whose father, also called Roger, had married the heiress of Woodhouse (Wodehouse).
i. William de Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse (d 1308)
  m. Isabel Pollington (da/coheir of William Pollington of Pollington by Isabel, dau/coheir of Ralph Horbury)
  MGH inserts an additional generation here, William m. Lucy Hoton. Provisonally, we speculate that she was the 1st wife of ...
  a. Sir William Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse
  m1. Lucy Hoton (dau/heir of Sir Robert Hoton)
  Visitation identifies the wife of William and mother of William & John as Jocosa (Joyce), dau/heir of Walter Tynsloe. MGH identifies her as Lucy, dau/heir of William son of Sir Henry. BE1883 identifies her as ...
  m2. Isabel de Tynsley (dau/coheir of Walter de Tynsley son/heir of Henry de Tynsley of Tynsley)
  (1) William Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse named Thomas by MGH
  Visitation, which follows the Elmsall line, ends its coverage of the Wentworth Hoodhouse line with William (son of William by Joyce Tynsloe) who married a daughter of Sir Thomas Reresby and had a son called Thomas who continued the line. This appears to miss out this and the next generation who are reported by BE1883.
m. Joan Fleming (dau of Sir William Fleming of Waith)
  (A) William Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse generation omitted by MGH
  m. Lucy (dau of Isabel, wife of William Sheffield of Bolderstoun)
  (i) William Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse
  m1. Isabella Durrant (dau of Thomas Durrant)
m2. Isabel Reresby (dau or Sir Thomas Reresby of Thryberg)
  (a) (Sir) Thomas Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse (a 03.1463)
  m. Joan Redman (dau of Sir Richard Redman of Harwood Tower)
  ((1)) William Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse (d 1477)
  m. (c1461) Isabel FitzWilliam (dau of Sir Richard FitzWilliam of Aldwark)
((A)) Sir Thomas Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse (b 1452, d 05.12.1548)
  m. Beatrix Woodruffe (dau of Sir Richard Woodruffe of Woolley)
  ((i)) William Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse (d 04.07.1549)
  m. Catherine Beeston (dau of Ralph Beeston of Beeston)
  ((ii)) Michael Wentworth of Mendham Priory (3rd son)
  m. Isabel Whitley (dau of Percival Whitley of Whitley)
  ((iii)) Thomas Wentworth of Scorby had issue
  m. Grace Gascoigne (dau of John Gascoigne of Lasingcroft)
  ((iv)) Elizabeth Wentworth
  m. Ralph Denham
  ((v)) Isabel Wentworth (bur 07.06.1593)
  m. Nicholas Wombwell of Thunnercliffe (b c1506, bur 30.05.1571)
((vi)) Beatrice Wentworth
  m. Thomas Worrall of Loversall
  ((vii))+ other issue - Gervase, Bryan
  ((B)) Elizabeth Wentworth
  m1. Thomas Lea of Middleton
  m2. Henry Arthington
  ((C))+ other issue - Ralph, George, William
  ((2)) son
  b. John de Wentworth of Elmsall (a 1314)
  m. Joan (dau of Richard le Tyas of Burgh Walleys)
  ii. John de Wentworth of Elmsall (dsp)
  m. dau of Elmsall of Elmsall
  m2. Lucy Newmarch (dau of Sir Adam Newmarch)
  B. Richard de Wentworth, Bishop of London, Chancellor of England (a 1338)

Main source(s): BE1883 ('Wentworth of Wentworth, Raby, Strafford') with some input/support from MGH (NS4 vol 5 (1914), p17), Visitation (Essex, 1612, 'Wentworth')
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