The Wentworths of Nettlestead
This reference was found researching Elizabeth I
There is possibly a Tudor connection here to the history of Belchamp Walter in the 15th Century
Not sure where the following came from:
The Gestingthorpe estate was "conveyed" to Sir Roger Wentworth of Codham Hall
According to Wikipedia:
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 of Gosfield, Codham and Nettlestead
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.,