Sir John Wentworth of Gosfield
Sir John Wentworth was the owner of the manor in Sixteenth Century Belchamp Walter.
He aquired the manor by the marriage of Sir Thomas Montgomery of Faulkbourne hall in the 15th Century
Sir Roger Wentworth "held" the Belchamp Walter estate before his grandson Sir John sold
it to the current owners.
Thomas Wright said this in his History of Essex:
I think that there is some confusion here due to "crowdsourcing" (geni.com and others) and the Wentworth name
with Gosfield,
Cobham and Codham. It is more likely that the Codham in Essex is the more likely.
Codham is near Wethersfield in Essex - I have
a lot of references commented out on this page and they need to be expanded.
This page is part of an on-going research project on the history of Belchamp Walter and
the manor of Belchamp Walter.
If you have found it making a web search looking for geneological or other information on the village then please bookmark this page and return
often as I am likely to make regular updates. If you delve deeper into this website you will find many other pages similar
to this one.
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English Heritage said about Belchamp Manor:
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Under the de Veres it was held by a number of families until in 1539 it came to Sir Roger Wentworth
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Sir John Wentworth senior died 1588 - his grandson another Sir John sold Belchamp Manor to John ஓaymond 1st. 1611
Again, Thomas Wright said:
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........ John Helion, Esq. was their son and heir, who, dying in 1450, left, by his wife Editha, daughter and co heiress of
Thomas Rolfe, Esq. of Gosfield, Philippa, married to Sir Thomas Montgomery, Esq.
of Faulkbourne Hall; and Isabel, the wife
of Humphrey Tyrell, Esq. of Little Warley, to whom she bore an only daughter,
named Anne, who, by marriage, conveyed this and other great estates to Sir Roger Wentworth, of
Codham Hall, in Wethersfield.
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...... John Helion Circa 1450 - Sir Thomas Montgomery, Esq. of Faulkbourne Hall
Philip ஓaymond
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The estate was conveyed to Sir John Wentwoth (who died 1588). Who grandson, another Sir John,
sold it to John Raymond 1st. . Philip Raymond the father of Oliver
who married Frances daughter of Sir William Harris (of Spanish Armada fame).
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More Research
Sir Roger Wentworth and his grandson Sir John Wentworth.
I need to confirm the marriage of Anne Montgomery to to a Wentworth.
Actually Anne Tyrell
The notes from geni.com, although the header text is wrong seem to be very useful.
The "Sale" of Belchamp Manor
The more I look into this part of Belchamp Walter's history the more I get the impression that there were many
political forces at work here.
1539 was in the later years of Henry VIII and probably
the "allotment" of land and property was very much tainted by his activity.
geni.com - motherload - see link below
There are a lot of notes and references here. For both Roger and John(s) Wentworth - I will have them in comments in this
file)
There is much text commented out here that need to be formatted.
About Sir Roger Wentworth, Kt., of Cobham Hall
The Wentworth genealogy: English and American (1878) Vol. 1
The link to the Internet Archive (Wayback) is commented out in the quote above. The text can either be taken from the
Archive
or from my copy and paste on this page. I have taken out the reference numbers - above and below is [15] - the list is [16]
Henry Wentworth, of Codham Hall, in Wethersfield, co. Essex, married, first, Elizabeth, daughter and sole
heir of Henry Howard, second son of Sir John Howard; and, secondly, Jane, daughter and heir of Henry Fitz Simon.
She survived her husband and remarried Sir Richard Fitz Lewes, Kt., of West Horndon, do. Essex, whose Will
she proved 24 November 1529. By his second wife Henry Wentworth had issue only one son, Nicholas16, ancestor
of the
Wentworths of counties Oxford, Bucks, Northampton, Warwick, and Lincoln, of whom hereafter. The said Henry15
Wentworth
died 22 March 1482-3, having had issue by his first wife as follows:
- Roger, of whom hereafter.
- Henry, whose will, dated 16 November 1610, was proved 6 February following. He was evidently unmarried,
and was buried in the chancel of St. Olave, in the Old Jewry, London.
Codham Hall - historyhouse
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Henry de Cornhill held the manor of Wethersfield in the twelfth century, and his heiress carried it in marriage to Hugh de Neville,
father of the author of that ancient record near "Testa de Neville." In 1463, the manor reverted to the Crown, and was annexed to
the Duchy of Lancaster, and afterwards held by various families, of the Honor of Clare. Henry VIII. gave it, in exchange, to Sir John Wentworth, of Codham Hall, a fine old mansion near the Blackwater, about 2 miles South East of the village, where the De Codham family were seated many generations after the Conquest,
and where they had an extensive park, now converted into fields.
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You can see Codham Hall on the map below near the village of Shalford
Manors owned by Wentworth
The following table came from the ESAH transactions
Henry Wentworth, of Codham Hall, Essex d. 1482
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Henry Wentworth, of Codham Hall, Essex, was the second son of Roger Wentworth, Esq., of Nettlestead, Co.
Suffolk, the first of that house, and a younger son of tlie Elmsall branch of the Yorkshire family. The manor of Codham Hall,
which became the nucleus of the great estate of the Wentworths in Essex, is in the parish of Wethersfield, lying three miles
north of Braintree, and fourteen miles north of Chelmsford. Having been in the Coggeshall family, the male succession of which
had failed, the manor was probably purchased by
Henry Wentworth from the coheiress to whom at the partition of the Coggeshall estate it had fallen.
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Background to this page
Having seen some of my history pages being found by those making an Internet search I have decided to add
a bit more context on how the pages came about.
This page is key to my research into why and how the area of Belchamp Manor
came into "possession" of the Wentworths.
The statement by Thomas Wright (and others) that in 1539 it came to Sir Roger Wentworth -
the statement seems to be too simplistic.
The file size of this page is quite large as it contains a lot of copy and paste from the geni.com website. It
gives me a little insight into how the Geni.com website gets updated.
