Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Wentworth was born on 13 February 1426, in Nettlestead, Suffolk, England, his father, Sir Roger Wentworth, was 33 and his mother, Margery Despenser, was 29. He married Elizabeth Howard before 1454. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He died on 22 March 1482, in his hometown, at the age of 56, and was buried in Wethersfield, Essex, England.
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- Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015
- The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011
- Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Common Ancestors & Cousins
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1455 · Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England between the royal families House of Lancaster and the House of York. The name of the war was derived as the red rose was the symbol of the Lancastrians and the white rose was the symbol of the Yorks.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Wentworth in Yorkshire. The placename probably derives from the Old English personal name Wintra + Old English worth ‘enclosure’.
habitational name from Wentworth in Cambridgeshire, which has the same etymology as the placename in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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