l.2. Mary WORTLEY, geb. c. 1380

l.2.  Mary, c. 1380 in Wortley, Yorkshire, Engeland x met  Richard OXSPRING.

Mary was die dogter van John Wortley en Elizabeth de la Haye.

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

Alric’s son Swein was lord of Oxspring and Roughbirchworth both before and after the Norman Conquest, so it was natural for the two manors to become united.  By the thirteenth century the lord was a local man named De Oxspring.  Richard de Oxspring and Matthew de Oxspring were recorded here during the reign of Henry III and junior branches of the family moved to other parts of South Yorkshire.  (Hey, David:  A History of Penistone and District)

(https://ia600305.us.archive.org/8/items/historyofparisho00dran/historyofparisho00dran.pdf)

After the Conquest Oxspring and Birchworth were given to de Laci, of whom they were held by the descendants of Ailric. A mesne lord was established here as in the other places, which made up the fee of that great Saxon house. The first of whom we find any notice is Richard de Oxspring, who lived in the reign of Henry III.(1236-1272). (https://www.oxspring-parish.com/sites/oxspring-parish.com/files/attachments/Kirkwood%20Mill.pdf)

He was the father of Matthew de Oxspring, whose name occurs in many charters both as principal and as witness, in the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I.  Matthew de Oxspring had a son named Robert.  This Robert had two sons, Richard and John. (https://huddersfield.exposed/api/content/books/ocr/17984/) 

In 1306 Robert de Oxspring granted to Henry de Rockley two parts of his fulling-mill of Oxspring with the water-course and dam. Margery, formerly wife of Robert de Clay in 1304, in her pure widowhood, granted to him the Clogh ina place called Clay, within the bounds of Oxspring. Richard, son of Richard de Bergh, in 1307, gave him all lands in Oxspring and Le Clay, belonging to him. In 1310 Robert de Mamecestr’ gave him two bovates in Oxspring, with the homage and services of divers persons. ‘This Robert was nepos to William de Mamicestr’ (son of William de Gringeley) who had taken a grant of the said lands and services from Roger de Hyde. This deed was dated at Brierley; and sir Nicholas de Wortley, Ralph de Wortley, Thomas de Savile, and others, were witnesses. And lastly, in 1311, William, son of William de Langdene, gave him the homage and an annual rent of 4s. 6d. of John, son of Richard, son of Ralph de Ruth Birchworth, for lands which he held in Oxspring. So that if the Rockleys kept these acquisitions they must have been nearly as powerful at Oxspring as the mesne lords themselves. The Oxsprings continued here. In the middle of the fifteenth century, Oxspring was the inheritance of William de Oxspring, with whose name the unusual addition of I’squire is generally found. I find him conveying his lands in trust to various persons in 30 Henry VI. the first-named being sir John Talbot, son and heir of the earl of Shrewsbury, whence it is probable that he might be an esquire to one of the knights of that noble family, especially since we find him described as ‘‘of Sheffield” in two or three charters. The other trustees were Christopher Dronsfield, Thomas de Wortley (afterwards sir Thomas Wortley), John, rector of Darfield, and Nicholas Greve ; and the lands lay in Oxspring, Birchworth, Cudworth, Brereley, Darton, Thurlston, and Cathill. (https://huddersfield.exposed/api/content/books/ocr/17984/)