Henry was die seun van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth de Wannerville.
The Sutton family had a long, distinguished pedigree and were associated with the title Barons of Lexington. The fourth baron (d. 1257) divided his property between his two nephews and heirs of Richard de Yarcham, and William de Sutton. (http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11452/1/374423.pdf)
Robert, Lord Lexington, made two families of his sister Sutton's sons. William. the eldest, had Warsop and Robert had Egrom, alias Averham. (http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/dean-dudley/history-of-the-dudley-family--with-genealogical-tables-pedigrees-c-volume--ldu/page-12-history-of-the-dudley-family--with-genealogical-tables-pedigrees-c-volume--ldu.shtml)
('Averham', Thoroton's
History of Nottinghamshire: volume 3: Republished with large additions by John
Throsby (1796), pp. 106-113.)
The Suttons of Averham, one of the most ancient, if not the most ancient family in Nottinghamshire still extant in the male line. The person who composed the inscription on the tomb of the second Lord Lexington, at Kelham church, states that the family “has flourished in this county from time immemorial.” That is a somewhat wide assertion. We have, however, something more substantial whereby to establish their acknowledged antiquity, for in Thoroton’s History we find that in the time of Henry III. (1243), through failure male heirs in the Lexington family, the manor of Averham to Sir Roland Sutton, of Sutton-on-Trent, through his age with the heiress (Alicia) of the Lexington estates. A pedigree of the Suttons is also set out from the middle of 13th century, thus the family have an unbroken pedigree over six hundred years. The charming simplicity Sutton arms, viz., argent, a canton sable, denotes ancient grant. (http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1913/autumn/suttonfamily.htm)
Averham
Robert, Lord Lexington, made two families of his sister Sutton's sons. William. the eldest, had Warsop and Robert had Egrom, alias Averham. (http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/dean-dudley/history-of-the-dudley-family--with-genealogical-tables-pedigrees-c-volume--ldu/page-12-history-of-the-dudley-family--with-genealogical-tables-pedigrees-c-volume--ldu.shtml)
The Suttons of Averham, one of the most ancient, if not the most ancient family in Nottinghamshire still extant in the male line. The person who composed the inscription on the tomb of the second Lord Lexington, at Kelham church, states that the family “has flourished in this county from time immemorial.” That is a somewhat wide assertion. We have, however, something more substantial whereby to establish their acknowledged antiquity, for in Thoroton’s History we find that in the time of Henry III. (1243), through failure male heirs in the Lexington family, the manor of Averham to Sir Roland Sutton, of Sutton-on-Trent, through his age with the heiress (Alicia) of the Lexington estates. A pedigree of the Suttons is also set out from the middle of 13th century, thus the family have an unbroken pedigree over six hundred years. The charming simplicity Sutton arms, viz., argent, a canton sable, denotes ancient grant. (http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1913/autumn/suttonfamily.htm)
Averham
The sepulchral monuments are of great interest. In the south-west corner of the nave is a slab on which is cut the figure of a knight in sunk relief. It no doubt commemorates a Sutton, and may possibly represent Sir Robert de Sutton, who died 1286. There was a Richard de Sutton who died in 1339. Under the arch lies a fine early sepulchral slab of black marble, brought from the chance!, and bearing a beautiful floriated cross, and an inscription in French, deeply cut, the ktters having been originally filled in either with metal or some other matter. The arch on the south also bears the Sutton arms, and has under it a recumbent effigy, which does not, however, rightly belong there. It represents a civilian, in flowing robes, and having in his hands a casket, which may be a reliquary, or possibly represent a heart. He has a wolf at his feet, and is believed to represent John de Sutton, who died 1389. (http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1913/autumn/averhamchurch.htm)
