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Elizabeth Wentworth

Female 1457 - 1528  (71 years)


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  • Name Elizabeth Wentworth  [1
    Born 1457  Codham Hall, Essex, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Birth 1487  Nettlestead, Mid Suffolk District, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Died Nov 1528  Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death Aft 22 Sep 1545  Felbrigg, North Norfolk District, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Buried Maldon, Maldon District, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I19075  Swetenham

    Father Sir Henry Wentworth, of Codham Hall,   b. Abt 1426, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Mar 1482, Codham Hall, Wethersfield, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 56 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Elizabeth Howard,   b. Abt. 1421 or 1430, Wiggenhall, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Mar 1483, Wethersfield, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 1450  Wethersfield, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3739  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Father Sir Henry Wentworth, KB,   b. Abt 1448, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 17 Aug 1499, Newson Abbey, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 51 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Anne de Say,   b. 1448, Broxburn, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 22 Oct 1494  (Age < 46 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 20 Feb 1469  Deighton, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5813  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 William Alington,   b. Abt 1449,   d. 22 Aug 1485, Battle of Bosworth Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 36 years) 
    Married May 1479  Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Children 
     1. Mary Alington,   b. 1484, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jun 1555, Bishops, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)  [natural]
     2. Sir Giles Alington,   b. 5 Apr 1483, Horseheath Hall, Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Apr 1521, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F6117  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Roger Darcy,   b. 1478,   d. 30 Sep 1508  (Age 30 years) 
    Married Bef 1506 
    Family ID F6374  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S474] UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).

    2. [S223] Landed families of Britain and Ireland, Nicholas Kingsley, Alington of Horseheath Hall and Wymondley, Barons Alington.
      Alington, William (d. 1485) of Horseheath. Elder son of John Alington (c.1428-80) and his wife Mary, daughter of Laurence Cheney of Fen Ditton (Cambs), born about 1449. Bearer of the First Silver Cup at the Coronation of Edward IV and Richard III; Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, 1476. He married 1st, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Sapcote of Elton (Hunts), kt. and 2nd, May 1479, Elizabeth (d. 1528), daughter of Henry Wentworth of Codham (Essex), and had issue:
      (1) Sir Giles Alington (d. 1521), kt. (q.v.);
      (2) George Alington (fl. 1527); died without issue;
      (3) Margery Alington (fl. 1527); married Sir Edward Greene (d. 1555), kt. of Great Sampford (Essex), (who married 2nd, Margaret, widow of Sir Robert Curson of Ipswich (later Lord Curson)) and had issue.
      He was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field, 22 August 1485; his will was proved at Lambeth, 31 May 1487 and an inquisition post mortem was held 16 January 1485/6. His widow married 2nd, by papal dispensation, 30 June 1497, William Cheney, and 3rd, Sir Ralph Chamberlain. She was buried at Wethersfield (Essex) and her will was proved 23 November 1528.
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