Philip Wentworth

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Philip Wentworth (1424 - 18 May 1464), Knight, of Nettlestead, Suffolk, Usher of the King's Chamber, King's Sergeant, Esquire of the Body, King's Carver, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, Constable of Llanstephen and Clare Castles, Chief Steward of the honour of Clare, son of Roger Wentworth, Esq., of Parlington, Yorkshire, and Nettlestead, Suffolk, by Margery, Lady Ros, daughter and heiress of Philip Despencer, Knight. He married Mary, daughter of | John De Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford.

From Douglas Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry:

In 1458 he and his mother, Margery, Lady Ros, and their children "of both sexes" received a papal indult that a confessor of their choice may absolve them from all their vows and grant them absolution for their sins. Philip Wentworth served in the army of King Henry VI, and died intestate 18 May 1464, being beheaded at Middleham, Yorkshire, after the Battle of Hexham, where he had been taken prisoner by the Yorkists. His wife, Mary, was buried at the Friars Minor at Ipswich, Suffolk.

[edit] Issue

1) Henry Wentworth
2) Elizabeth Wentworth m. | Martin De La See, Knight, of Barmston, Yorkshire, son of Brian De La See, by Maud, daughter of John Monceaux