Why did the Belchamp Estate "come" to the Wentworth's?
The Wentworth Tudor connection to Belchamp Walter
Henry VIII - Jane Seymour - Wulfhall (Wolf Hall) - Sir John Wentworth of Gosfield - Thomas Wentworth - 1st Earl of Strafford
Some notes that I made earlier:
Not sure where the following came from:
a mis-spelled wentworth_nettlested.html
The Gestingthorpe estate was "conveyed" to Sir Roger Wentworth of Codham Hall
7 Oct 2026 - Impression seen in GSC - Started to move quotes to notes and to expand on the Seymour connection
Quotes:
Nettlestead, Suffolk
Nettlestead Hall, The Chase
The original manor was known as Nettlestead Chase. It belonged to the Earls of Richmond. It later passed ownership to Peter II, Count of Savoy, Robert de Tiptoft, Philip le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despenser. The Later Wentworth families held the estate as Baron of Nettlestead. The hall was situated in the village of Nettlestead behind the church of which only the ancient gateway survives bearing the arms of the Wentworth's. From the 13th to the 16th centuries the Nettlestead families were patrons of the house of friars minor at Ipswich.
Sir Philip Wentworth
Sir Philip Wentworth of Nettlestead, Suffolk (c. 1424 – 18 May 1464) was an English knight and courtier. Wentworth was a great-grandfather of Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII, and was beheaded at Middleham, Yorkshire.
Wentworth from the Visitations of Suffolk - 1561 (spelling could be Nettlested, Suffolk)
WENTWORTH of Nettlestead.
ARMS: Quarterly of 20, as under Wentworth in the Vis. of Essex 1612, Hurl. Soc., vol. xiii, p. 312, but the
fifth quartering is stated to be that of Poynton instead of Fitz Warren ; and the sixth quartering is Azure,
three lucies haurient Argent, two and one, (is man// cross crosslets Or, one and two ; in the ninth quartering the bend is charged at the upper end with a mullet;
in the fourteenth quartering the leopard* and lordure are Argent, instead of Or; in the nineteenth quartering the
mullet in Sable, instead of Gules.
Quarterly of 15, the first five as above, WENTWORTH bearing a crescent on a
crescent fur difference ; 6, Howard ; 7, Tyrrell ; 8, Helliam ; 9, Inglishe ;
10, Swynburne (the field Azure), as in the shield of 24 quartering^ under
WENTWORTH in the Vis, of Essex 1612, mentioned above ; 11, Anjent,
three pales wavy Gules; 12, Argent, a saltire Sable; 13, Argent, three
Cornish choughs Sable; 14, Parvis, as in the Vis. of Essex 1612, mentioned
above ; 15, Argent, on a chevron Salle between three pellets each charged
with a martlet of the field as many escallops Or (Hamond of Kent).
ROGER WENTWORTH, Esq., mar. Margery, Lwly Roose, da. and heir to Philip le
Despenser and Elizabeth his wife, da. and one of the heirs of Robert, Lord Tiptoft,
son and heir to John, Lord Tiptoft, which mar. Margaret, da. and one of the heirs of
Sir Bartholomew Badelysmer, and the said Roger and Margerye had issue, SIR PHILIP, son and heir; Henry, second son;
Elizabeth, mar. to John Calthorpe, Esq.; Margaret, mar. to Sir William Hopton, Kt.; ... mar. to ...
Constable of Flamborow, co. York.
SIR PHILIP WENTWORTH of Nettlested, co. Suff., Kt, son and heir to Roger, mar. Mary, da. of John, Lord Clifford,
and by her had issue, SIR HENRY, son and heir.
SIR HENRY WENTWORTH of Nettlestead, Kt., son and heir to Sir Philip, mar. Anne, da. of Sir John Saye, Kt, and by her had issue,
SIR RICHARD, son and heir ; Elizabeth, first mar, to Sir Roger Darcye of Danbury, Kt., after to Sir Thomas Windham,
Kt; Margery, mar. to Sir John Setjmer of Wiltshire and mother to Edward, Duke of Somerset : Dorothe, mar. to
Sir Robert Broughton, Kt.
SIR RICHARD WENTWORTH of Nettlested, Kt., son and heir to Sir Henry, mar. Anne, da, to Sir James Tyrrell of Gippinge,
co. Suff., Kt,
and by her had issue, THOMAS, son and heir ; Margery, mar. to Christopluir Glemhum, Esq.; Dorothe, mar. to
Lyonell Talmacha, Esq.; Thoinasin, mar. to ... Piiuler of Ipswich.
THOMAS, LORD WENTWORTH, son and heir to Sir Richard Wentworth, first Lord Wentworth of Nettlestcd, Kt, mar. Margaret,
da. of Sir Adrian, Foriescue, and his ieir, and of Anne his wife, da. and heir of Sir William Stoner, Kt, and of Anne his wife, da.
and one of the heirs
of Sir John Nevill, Marques Montacute, and of Isabel his wife, da. and heir of Sir Edmond Inglethorpe, Kt, which
Sir William
Stoner was son and hair of Thomas Stoner, which mar. the da. and heir of Sir John Kirkbys, Kt.,
The record keeping of the historical events the affected Belchamp Walter before the arrival of the Raymond Family in 1611 are sorely lacking. The Historic England listing for Belchamp Hall refers to the Wentworths owning the estate prior to the purchase in 1611 but there is very little in reference to why the estate was in the hands of the Wentworth family and why it was sold to the Raymonda.
Sir Philip Wentworth born c. 1424 and died 18 May 1464 was the great-great-grandfather of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third wife.
The Visitations of Suffolk - 1561 trace the ancestry of the Wentworth family in Suffolk.
The description of the Wentworth Arms contained in the Visitation tends to confirm some of the family connections between the Wentworths of Essex (Belchamp Walter), Gosfield and Yorkshire.
