l.1. Sir Nicholas WORTLEY, geb. c. 1378

l.1.  Sir Nicholas, geb. c. 1378  in Wortley, Yorkshire, England, oorl 1448, His estate was probated on 22 January 1448 , begr. St. Helen Churchyard, Hemsworth, , Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England x 1400 met Elizabeth WATERTON, geb. c. 1382, Yorkshire, Engeland, d.v. Sir Robert Waterton en Agnes Fairfax (dau. of Sir Guy Fairfax) xx Miss MOORE.

Nicholas was die seun van John Wortley en Elizabeth de la Haye.

(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)



Sir Nicholas leef in die regeringstyd van Konings Henry IV (r.1399-1413), Henry V en Henry VI.  Koning Henry VI die seun van koning Henry V, regeer (1422-1461) en weer vanaf (1470-71).  Anders as sy pa wou Henry VI nie oorlog maak nie.  Hy wou nie voortgaan met die Honderdjarige Oorlog teen Frankryk nie.  Toe Joan of Arc  Franse patriotisme laat herleef het, het die Engelse stelselmatig hulle Franse besitting begin verloor.  Teen 1453 was Calais, die enigste van sy pa se oorwinnings, wat oor was.  Die regering was ongewild, veral na die verlies van Engelse verowerings in Frankryk.


Nicholas Wortley het in ongeveer 1400 met Elizabeth Waterton, die dogter van Sir Robert Waterton en Agnes Fairfax getrou.

The Watertons derive their name from Waterton, in Lincolnshire.  They came into England at the time of the conquest;  and, have, since that period retained their name and estate directly in the male line.  They were the founders of the churches of Royston, Felchurch and Methley and of two others in the vicinity;  and were lords of Cawthorne Park.  Sir Robert Waterton seneschall of Pontefract, was master of the horse in the several reigns of Henry IV, Henry V and Vl.  (Fox, George:  The History of Pontefract, in Yorkshire.  Wakefield. 1827)  Robert Waterton was Esquire of the Body to Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford (Henry IV), with whom he went on Crusade to the Holy Land.  He was High Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster, Master of the King's Horse & Armour & Master of the King's Running Hounds. Jailer to James I King of Scots & Scots Nobles & many French Nobles from Agincourt all of whom were confined in the Castle of Pontefract.  (Fox, George:  The History of Pontefract, in Yorkshire.  Wakefield. 1827. P. 68)  He was Constable of the castles of Pontefract (1399-1425), Tickhill & Castle Donnington.  During his tenure as Constable at Pontefract Castle, Richard II was imprisoned, subsequently dying in mysterious circumstances February 1400.  In the 9th year of Henry VI [1441]  Robert Waterton, miles.of Methley Hall was a sheriff for Yorkshire.  He acted as the guardian for Richard Duke of York, the disputed father of Edward IV. Richard was raised at Pontefract Castle and Methley Hall. (Heraldry of some Yorkshire Families.  http://www.midgleywebpages.com/westyorksarms.html)   In the reign of Henry VI they possessed twenty-four manors in England.  The Watertons were dispossessed of Methley by king Henry VIII on their refusing to take the oath of supremacy.  The monumental effigy of Sir Robert Waterton are in the church at Methley.  The five daughters of this Sir Robert, worked in  tapestry the model for the north window in the cathedral church of York.  (Fox, George: The History of Pontefract, in Yorkshire. Wakefield. 1827)  Arms: Gules, three bars ermine, over all three crescents sable.  The Waterton's on the distaff had a shield of six equal horizontal divisions, starting at the top with ermine then gules repeated. Three crescents sable are placed over this field in a manner which one would expect to find with three crescents displayed on a single colour shield [Barry of six ermine gules three crescents sable].  (Heraldry of some Yorkshire Families.  http://www.midgleywebpages.com/westyorksarms.html)



(Foster, Joseph, Hon. M.A. Oxon:  Some feudal coats of arms, London, 1902)
  
(Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

Sir Nicholas de Wortley het vir ‘n tweede keer met Miss. Moore getrou.

More of More-hall.  More-hall stands in a charming valley near the Don, and enjoys a luxuriant view of the woods and rocks of Wharncliffe.  It is understood that it stands within the manor of Bolsterstone;  but the late Godfrey Bosville of Gunthwaite esquire, in some memoirs which he left of his own family, states that it is within his manor of Oxspring and pays to him a rose yearly.  There are no remains of the ancient house of the Mores, who may be regarded as a family indigenous to Hallamshire, an unknown but careful and skilful hand having collected their genealogy in the time of Charles I. and shown them resident on this spot in times when in their rank of society the use of hereditary surnames was unknown.  I shall present it to the reader as it is found in C. 25, f. 45, in the College of Arms, entered by George More of Burghope in Herefordshire, at the visitation of that county in 1634.  The crest was formerly to be seen carved in stone above five feet long at the north-east corner of Bradfield church.  (Hunter, Joseph:  The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield : with Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton and Whiston, and of the Chapelry of Bradfield. London. 1819)

(Foster, Joseph, Hon. M.A. Oxon:  Some feudal coats of arms, London, 1902)


(Hunter, Joseph:  The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield : with Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton and Whiston, and of the Chapelry of Bradfield. London. 1819)

Directory of West Riding Gentry, 1399-1461
Key  * knight  @ distrainee  & esquire  $ gentleman
                                        1st ref or birth         last ref or death                Residence
@ John Wortley I            1406                        1429                                 Wortley
John Wortley II               1414                        1414                                 Wortley
@ Nicholas Wortley I     1414                         c. 1449                            Wortley
@ Nicholas Wortley II   1440 *                                                               Wortley
@ Richard Wortley        1414                         1435                                 Wortley
(Punshon, Mark Christopher:  Government and political society in the West Riding of Yorkshire 1399 – 1461. submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philoosophy the university of York, department of history. Aug 2002.)  Distrainees = Eligible knights

By deed dated at Denby 20 June 1410, William de Maltby and John Walker of Mirfield, chaplain, grant to Richard Burdet, lord of Denby, and Joan his wife, and the heirs of the body of the said Richard, the manors of Denby and High Hoyland ; if Richard die without issue, which God forefend, to: remain to Nicholas, son of John de Wortley, and the heirs of his body, with remainder to Richard and John, brothers of Nicholas. (https://huddersfield.exposed/api/content/books/ocr/17984/)

12 Aug 1414.  Robert del Stones was ‘n getuie toe Nicholas de Wortley (q.v.) en sy broers al sy pa se grond in die gemeente van Birstall, West Riding Yorkshire aan Richard de Popelay (q.v.) toegestaan (granted) het.  (Yorkshire Deeds. Vol.VII.  P.79)   Birstall Parish in die Dewsbury distrik, West Riding, Yorkshire, is in 'n heuwelagtige gebied, 7 myl suidwes van Leeds en 6.4 myl Suid-wes van Wortley geleë.  Die ou gemeente van Birstall het bestaan uit die agt townships van Cleckheaton, Drighlington, Gomersal, Heckmondwike, Hunsworth, Liversedge, Tong en Wike.  Die dorp Birstall het sy naam aan die gemeente gegee, maar is in die township of Gomersall.  Ander villages of hamlets in die Birstall gemeente sluit in: Great en Little Gomersal, Stubley, Littletown, Robertown, Long Liversedge, Hoaton, Okenshay, Moore Lawe, Doghouse, Scholes, en Berkonshay.  http://www.maggieblanck.com/Land/Birstall.html 

1414:  Wortley, William, draper, Collector of a tax in York.  Draper:  one who made woollen cloth. 
(Calendar of the fine rolls vol. XIV.  Henry V A.D. 1413-1422.  London.  1934)

1422.  Richard de Wortelay, esquires, of the county of York, John de Wortelay junior, esquire, and Henry Langus of Wirkesburg in the same county of York, of all those messuages, lands and tenements, woods, meadows and pastures, with all the appurtenances, which lately descended to the said Elizabeth, William’s wife, by hereditary right after the death of William de Wigfalle, her father, in Wigfalle in Wirkesvurg and within the bounds of the same.  Dated at Wygfall in Wirkesburg, 1 September 1422.  (Abstracts of the Chartularies of the Priory of Monkbretton  edited by John William Walker)  Worsbrough is 'n gebied sowat twee kilometer suid van Barnsley, Suid-Yorkshire, Engeland.

In 1429 is daar ‘n Grant  van John Darell of Mesyn (Member of Parliament ) vir Kent aan Nicholas Worteley Esq and Elizabeth his wife vir 7½ acres arable and 6 swaiths meadow in Mesyn. (The National Archives Notinghamshire Archives 1146-1982)  Misne or Missin. The land belonging to this place is sandy, and lies in the counties of Nottingham and Lincoln. It contains, with the levels, 6000 acres.  (British history online.  http://www.british-history.ac.uk/thoroton-notts/vol3/pp331-333)

1440. Grant from Thomas Segrave to Geoffrey Segrave his son and Johanna his wife of the manor of Staley Wodethorp, with reversion on failure of issue to the heirs of the said Thomas and Margaret his wife. Witn. Nicholas, lord of Worteley, John de Keresforthe of Barnesley, Robert Hanson of Netherthorp, etc. Dat. Woodthorpe, 5 Oct., 19 Hen. VI. (Isaac Herbert Jeayes for Sir Henry Howe Bemrose, Descriptive catalogue of Derbyshire charters in public and private libraries and muniment rooms (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1906), 285, Item 2254)

Die titel van Earl of Shrewsbury is in 1442 aan John Talbot, 7de Baron Talbot, ‘n Engelse generaal in die Hundred Years' War toegeken.  Sir Thomas Harrington of Brierley, John Hastings of Fenwick,  Nicholas Wortley I (d.1448) of Wortley, Thurstan Banaster of Wakefield, Henry Stafford and Thomas Clarell II (d. 1450) of Aldwark served as feoffees for Sir John Talbot  during the 1440s.  (Punshon, Mark Christopher:  Government and political society in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1399-1461. Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.  The University of York.  Department of history.  Aug 2002)  Talbot of Shrewsbury – Nicholas Wortley c 1442-53 Feoffee  (Punshon, Mark Christopher:  Government and political society in the West Riding of Yorkshire 1399 – 1461. submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy the university of York. department of history. Aug 2002.)

Sir John Talbot.  His Sheffield councillors and feeholders, with the exception of Everingham, were men of obscure origin and but slight local standing.  Thomas Wortley was a younger son of Nicholas Wortley, who died in 1449.  The Reiceiver of Sheffield was similarly employed in legal word.  In October 1442, for instance, he went to Rotheram to support Talbot’s servant Thomas Wortley in a case against one Harry Boston.  (http://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/files/34502954/488666_vol2.pdf)

Nicholas Wortley sterf in 1448.

1448:  In Dei nomine. — In vig. S. Thomae Apostoli, A.D. M.CCC.XLVIIJ., Ego Nicholaus Wortley, dominus de Wortley — sepeliend. in ecclesia par. de Hymesworth. Lego fabrica ejusdem ecclesiae XX s. et in pane et cervisia pauperibus in die sepulturae meae viij. marcas. — Rectori de Tankersley unum equum nomine mor tuarii, vel xl s. Fabricae  ecclesiae  xx s. Fabricae eccles. de Wortley XX s. Nicholao,  filio et heredi meo, omnia instrumenta hereditaria, prout pater meus mihi dimisit, ac eciam fabricas meas cum omnibus instrumentis. — Matildas, filiae meae, vj. boves et vj. vaccas. — Dominae Katerinae Wortley, filiae meae, sex marcas, unam peciam argenti et unum cocliar argenti. Johanni filiae Nicholai  Wortley, filii mei xls. Johanni Wortley xl s.  Willhmo Wortley, fratri suo, xl s. Residuum Roberto et Thomae filiis meis  (Full text of "Testamenta eboracensia; or, Wills registered at York, illustrative of the history, manners, language, statistics, &c., of the province of York, from the year 1300 downwards")


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Kinders:

m.1.  Nicholas, Esq. geb. c. 1400, oorl.  c.1485, x 1431/2 met Isabella TUNSTALL, geb. c.1414 in Thurland Castle, Lancashire, Engeland, oorl.  21/03/1492, begr. church of St Michael, Thornhill, d.v. William Tunstall van Thurland en Anne Parr.


m.3.  Thomas, geb. c. 1404, Wortley, Yorkshire, England



m.6.  Maude, geb. c. 1409,  oorl. 1482  x  Peter FRESCHEVILLE, co. Derby, Esq;  Piers Fracheville, one of the Esquires of the body to King Henry VII, who died in 1503;  and Maud (Wortley) his wife.

m.7.  Rosamond, geb. c. 1411 x Thomas WICKERSLEY, of Wickersley,  Esq

m.8.  Jane, geb. c. 1413  x  Robert MALTBY

m.9.  Ursula, geb. c. 1415 x  Richard BEAUMONT of Whitley Hall, Esq, s.v. Richard Beaumont  en Cecilia Mirfield

m.10.  Mary, geb. c. 1417 x John LACY, Esq

2e huwelik:

11.  NN x John LEVENTHORPE, esq

m.12.  NN x HOPTON