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/)

l.3. Christian WORTLEY

l.3.  Christian x Sir Roger WALLIS Knt.

Christian was die dogter van John Wortley en  Jane Saville.

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

l.4. Judith WORTLEY

l.4.  Judith x John GUMBLETHWAITE.

Judith was die dogter van John Wortley en  Jane Saville.

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

All these deeds belong to an early period in the reign of Edward I. or even to the reign of Henry III. It would seem as if they showed the Byrtons acquiring their rights here. Roger, son of Henry de Gunthwaite, charged his lands there with the payment of 12d. annually to the church of Peniston, one half to the light below the cross, the other half to the service of St. Mary. That was done before dates were in use in charters. He, it may be presumed, is the Roger de Gunthwaite who in 7 Edward I. took a quitclaim from John, son of John Aye del Rodes de Gunnildthwayt, who calls him his lord, of lands held of Roger in Gunthwaite. The date is die Martii prox. post pasche floridum. In 1281, John, the son of John de Rodes de Gunnildthwayt, quit-claimed to Henry de Byrton, his lord, all advantage of his waste belonging to Gunthwaite, so that neither he nor his heirs should make any claim to it; and that neither he nor his heirs should alienate without consent of Henry first obtained, and that if they do so they shall pay to him a mark for each acre so alienated, with power to distrain for the same. In this deed were witnesses Matthew de Oxspring and Robert his son or brother, “f.’’ John de Peniston, William de Denby, and Robert his son, Thomas de Veteri Campo, Simon de Birchworth, John son of Alan de Denby, and Richard de Calthorn, clerk. In 1310 Roger de Gunthwaite granted to William le Couper and Agnes his wife lands at Gunthwaite for thirteen years at a rent of 4s. 8d. and to grind his corn at the mill there pro vicesimo grano. There are several other charters of Roger de Gunthwaite, who was certainly the head of the family, extending to 1321, after which he does not appear. His wife was Isabel, and he had a son John, as appears by one of his charters respecting lands at Barnsley in 1316. In 1348, John, son of Roger de Gunthwaite, appears with Christiana his wife, when they took a tenement in Gunthwaite from Robert, son of Roger Milner, of Gunthwaite; and in 1359 he took the grant from Darcy. In that year began (as far as the evidence before us shows) the connection between the Gunthwaites and the Bosviles. We have, 1, a deed of October 20 in that year, by which Thomas Bayliffe, of Barnsley, and Thomas, son of Robert the clerk, of Barnsley, give to John de Gunthwaite and Christiana his wife, for the lfe of both of them, the manor of Gunthwaite with water mill and suit of tenants, which we have of the gift of the said John, with remainder on their decease to Thomas de Bosseville de Erdesley for term of life, remainder to Alice, wife of the said Thomas for life; remainder to Thomas, son and heir of the said Thomas; remainder to Richard and William, other sons, and their respective heirs male; remainder to the right heirs of Thomas de Bosseville. This entail bears date at Gunthwaite on Sunday, October 20, 1359. Aymer Burdet, John de Dronsfield, and John de Stainton, were among the witnesses. In 1374 John de Gunthwaite was dead, and Christiana in her pure widow- hood released her life-interest in the manor of Gunthwaite to Thomas Bosvile, of Erdsley, and his heirs, for a rent of ten marks to begin at Pentecost 1375. To this deed is a seal in red wax, with the arms of Bosvile with the three bears’ heads in chief. There is nothing in any charter I have seen of either Gunthwaite or Bosvile, to show on what inducement the Gunthwaites assigned this manor to Bosvile, but the opinion in the Bosviles always was that Alice, the wife of Thomas, was the daughter and heir of John and Christiana, and this opinion is countenanced by the arms of Gunthwaite having been allowed by the heralds as a quartering to the later Bosviles; and by the non-appearance of any other person as the wife of the said Thomas.  (https://huddersfield.exposed/api/content/books/ocr/17984/)

l.5. Ann WORTLEY

l.5.  Ann x Thomas ALDWARK, Esq.

Ann was die dogter van John Wortley en Jane Saville.

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

m.2. Robert WORTLEY, geb. c. 1402

m.2.  Robert, geb. c. 1402

Robert was die seun van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton.

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

In the year 1454 being the 33rd year of the reign of Henry the 6th, we have a writ of summins issued by one Thomas Urswyk Esq.

(https://archive.org/stream/recordsfamilyur01urwigoog#page/n75/mode/2up/search/wortley)

In 1448 is Robert 'n begustigde in sy pa se testament:

(file:///C:/Users/wortleyh/Downloads/ThePublicationsoftheSurteesSociety_10256934.pdf)

m.3. Thomas, WORTLEY geb. c. 1404

m.2.  Thomas, geb. c. 1404,  Wortley, Yorkshire.

Thomas was die seun van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton.

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

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)

In 1448 is Thomas 'n begustigde in sy pa se testament:

(file:///C:/Users/wortleyh/Downloads/ThePublicationsoftheSurteesSociety_10256934.pdf)

m.4. Matilda WORTLEY, geb. c. 1406

m.3.  Matilda, geb. c. 1406.

Matilda was die dogter van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton.

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

In 1448 is Matilda Wortley 'n begustigde in haar pa se testament:

(file:///C:/Users/wortleyh/Downloads/ThePublicationsoftheSurteesSociety_10256934.pdf)

Volgens die Pedigree of More, Of Barnborough Hall:  trou John Cresacre of Barnborough in 1455 met Matilda or Catherine dau. of Nicholas Wortley.

m.5. Catherine WORTLEY, geb. c. 1407

m.4.  Catherine, geb. c. 1407

Catherine was die dogter van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton.

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

In 1448 is Catherine Wortley 'n begustigde in haar pa se testament:

(file:///C:/Users/wortleyh/Downloads/ThePublicationsoftheSurteesSociety_10256934.pdf)

Volgens die Pedigree of More, Of Barnborough Hall:  trou John Cresacre of Barnborough in 1455 met Matilda or Catherine dau. of Nicholas Wortley.

m.6. Maude WORTLEY, geb. c. 1409

m.5.  Maude, geb. c. 1409, oorl. 1482 x  Peter FRESCHEVILLE, Staveley co. Derby, Esq.

Maude was die dogter van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton.

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

Volgens Joseph Forster (sien hierbo in a Wortley pedigree) was Maude Wortley, daughter of Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton met Peter Frecheville co. Derby, Esq getroud.

Hascuit de Musard was awarded the Manor of Staveley after the Norman Conquest of 1066.  In 1306 the Musard family died out and Ralph de Frecheville became the new Lord.  The Frechevilles lived in the Hall until they died out in 1682.  In 1603 Sir Peter de Frecheville was knighted by James I at Worksop and he wished to make Staveley Hall a suitable residence for a knight and Justice of the Peace.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staveley,_Derbyshire)

Regs:  Staveley Hall – Frecheville coat of arms. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staveley,_Derbyshire)

The Frechevilles: The 14th to the 16th centuries As with the previous two phases, there appears to be no direct archival evidence that a hall or other residence existed on the site during the 14th and 15th centuries. Baker (2006, 1) states that, “A manor house is recorded at Staveley by 1311, when Ralf Frecheville and his wife Margaret moved there from Crich…”, but it is not known what document this reference comes from. Evidence from other documents indicate, however, that Staveley was adopted as the Frecheville caput at a very early date after 1301, so it is almost definite that they had a staveley hall outline residence in the manor which would have in all probability been on the site of the present hall. Two possible key dates at this time are: • 1316/17 – when John de Hibernia granted his third of the manor to Ralph Frecheville, giving him two thirds in total; and, • c.1320 – when Ralph, the second Frecheville lord of Staveley, alienated the manor of Crich. It seems probable that the Frechevilles had moved their caput to Staveley by the latter date, but whether they had built a new residence there or were using the Musards’ old one is not clear. However, the evidence that the V-shaped ditch was infilled sometime in the 14th century might be an indication that the Frechevilles were carrying out works on the site at that time, possibly associated with the construction of a new hall house. Virtually all medieval manorial dwelling-houses were hall houses of one form or another. This plan was composed of a single, full-height hall with a screen at one end sheltering it from the entrance and from a passage which led, between the buttery and pantry, to the kitchens: at the opposite end was a dais for the owner and his family. Reached from the dais end were a chamber and a family room with perhaps a sleeping-room (called a solar) above it. It was a remarkably successful form of building and the concept of a great hall survived well into the 17th century.   Externally, from the 13th century onwards, the social environment became more settled and peaceful and the need for a manor house to be explicitly defensive was becoming less pressing. However, many retained elements of fortification such as moats and gatehouses, protecting a walled courtyard which often incorporated one or more ranges of buildings, extending from and around the original hall and housing the wider range of rooms that the increasingly complex services and social structures within the household demanded. As such, the story of most manorial houses up to the 16th century was one of accretion and addition, rather than wholesale rebuilding, and it would be logical that this is the form that the Frecheville’s manor house at Staveley had reached by the mid-1500s. The first of the two inventories cited by Swift (1863, 150) provides some idea of their wealth and possessions in 1559: “x fether beddes, xiii mattresses, xi bolsteres, viii pelowes, vi peire of blanketts, xxiv coverlettes, iv counterpeyntes, a prass, a foldinge-table, ii cheares and a coffer, iiii trusebeddes with teasteres and hangyngs, a bedsteade, a trundelbede, a long coffer, ii cheares curteynes and teastures, xx peyre of lynnen sheets, xx peir of canvas shetts and harden, xii candil stickes, vi playne quishenes, ix wrought quishenes, a carpet of grene clothe, a table, a frame, certein cheares and stoles with all the tables cheares and stoles not before remembrede, iiii launde irens with a peire of tonges.” The Plate includes “one silver salt parcell gilte, being xii ownces after iv» the ounce, and ii playne drinking bolles, one silver cup with a cover parcell gilte, one gilted spone, vi other silver spones with knappes, xiiii playne silver spones with knappes, in all xx ownces after ivs the ownce.” The 1581 Inventory is of particular use to us in that it cites the names of some of the rooms in the Hall at that time, e.g. “the Great Chamber,” “the Farr Chamber,” “the Great Parlor,” and “the Hall.” This list, incomplete as it is, tells us that, including the hall, there were four major rooms in the complex and so gives us some idea of the size of Staveley Hall at this time. (Staveley Hall:  An outline chronology.  staveley_hall_a_timeline_chronology.pdf)

Staveley Hall.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staveley,_Derbyshire)

Notas vir Peter Frecheville en Maude Wortley soos uit webtuiste (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m24752x26814.htm)  verkry. 

1444 William Stokes was rector of Staveley; patron, the King, as guardian of Peter Frecheville, then under age. [J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4, "the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch" (1879), 478, [Internet_Archive]

1447 [27 Hen VI] Peter achieved age 21. "Frechevile, Peter, son and heir of the late Gervase. Proof of age: Derbyshire" [National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Reference C 139/136/53, [UK_National_Archives]

1449. May 17. Westminster. To the escheator in Derbyshire. Order to take the fealty of Peter Frecheville, son and heir of Gervase Frecheville, and to give him seisin of his father's lands; as he has proved his age before the escheator, and for half a mark paid in the hanaper the king has respited his homage until the feast of Allhallows next. [C.T. Flower, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry VI, Vol. 5, 1447-1454 (London: HMSO, 1941, reprinted 1971), 87, [FHL_Book]

Bassano’s volume of church notes describes several monuments of the Frechevilles:  that of Piers Frecheville sometime one of the Esquires of the body to King Henry VII who died in 1503;  and Maud (Wortley) his wife;  John Frecheville, Esq (son of Piers,) 1509 and others uninscribed.  (Lysons, Daniel:  Magna Britannia, a concise topographical account of the several counties of ...)

Kinders:

1.  Anker FRESCHEVILLE;

n.2.  John FRESCHEVILLE;

n.3.  Raffe FRESCHEVILLE;

n.4.  Agnes FRESCHEVILLE;

n.5.  Eleanor FRESCHEVILLE;

n.6.  Nicholas FRESCHEVILLE.

m.7. Rosamond WORTLEY, geb. c. 1411

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

Rosamond was die dogter van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton.

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

In the late 14th century, Wickersley society was headed by John de Bossevill, franklin, and his wife Elizabeth who were assessed at 4Od in the 1379 Poll Tax return. Just below them was John de Wykerslay, merchant, who paid 2s. Altogether there were 53 Wickersley people prosperous enough to pay the tax. The total population was probably c.90.

The family of de Wickersley descended from Richard fitzTurgis, one of the co-founders of Roche Abbey. In 1230 Robert de Wickersley gave the advowson of the parish church to Worksop Priory. In 1315 the lords of the manor of Wickersley were returned as Thomas de Wickersley, Jordan de Idle and Richard de Dred. The male line of the de Wickersleys came to an end in 1528 with the death of Nicholas de Wickersley. The manor passed via his daughter Ellen to her husband Robert Swift jnr, son of Robert Swift of Rotherham. (https://www.wickersleypc.org.uk/early-history-of-wickersley.html)

m.8. Jane WORTLEY, geb. c. 1413

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

Jane was die dogter van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton.

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

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/)

m.9. Ursula WORTLEY, geb. c. 1415

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

Ursula was die dogter van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton.

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

William Fitz William of Emley, a Saxon like William Fitz Adam de Bretton was near neighbour to the Brettons (Beaumonts) of Whitley.

Agbrig & Morley Wapentake, Hallifax, 2 Apr. a 1666 by Sir William Dugdal

The line of Beaumont’s at or near Huddersfield commenced with William de Beaumont’ of 1200 who as William Fitz Adam received the gift of, or was confirmed in land at Kexborough by Roger de Montbegan. This land may be included in “all other places” when William de Bretton was selling land to the Dronsfields. Roger de Montbegan’s son, John, enfeoffed the second William de Beaumont in land at Whitley. In 1218, this William was called upon to defend his claim to land in Quarmby which had been given to his father: it is said that this second William Beaumont married Alice de Quarmby. The third William de Beaumont had by Elizabeth NN, who was a widow in 1294, four sons, William, Richard, John and Adam: The third son as John de Beaumont was living in Lepton in 1297, The eldest son, the fourth William de Beaumont, most probably married the daughter and heir of Richard of Foss Crosland, as he was in possession of property at Crosland in 1294-95. (The first brettons)

There was no doubt also a residence of the Beaumont family in the Township of Almondbury, at "Hall Bower," near Newsome, on the north side of Castle Hill.  Church of Almondbury, Yorkshire. " Some remains of the old Church are still to be seen in the walls of both the North and South sides of the chancel, and which was most probably built by the Lacies, Tyases and Beaumonts, and their tenants, about the year 1100. The present Church was finished in 1522. There is a Chantry or Choir in the North end, belonging to the Earl of Dartmouth, and one other on the South side belonging to R. H. Beaumont, Esq., of Whitley Hall, in right of his house called Crosland Hall." (http://wvancestry.com/ReferenceMaterial/Files/Annals_of_the_Church_and_Parish_of_Almondbury_Yorkshire_England.pdf)

m.10. Mary WORTLEY, geb. c. 1417

m .10.  Mary, c. 1417, x met John LACEY, Esq

Mary was die dogter van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth Waterton.

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

By her he had John Lacy, to whom the Office of Arms has allowed the Lacys of Cromwellbothom, and Brearley, to ascend, but no farther. This John married Ellen (some say Eleanor) daughter and heiress of Robert de Cromwelbothom, by whom John Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, who married Ann (one MS. sais Alice) daughter of John de Eland, by whom John Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, and Gilbert Lacy, of Brearley, near Halifax. John married Florence, daughter of Robert Molineux, of Lancashire, who bore. Azure, a cross sarcele, or. By her he had William Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, who married Joan, daughter of sir William Skargill, of Thorpe Stapleton, near Leeds, who bore, Ermine, a saltire, gules. By her he had Thomas Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, who married Eleanor, daughter of Robert Nevile, of Liversedge, by whom John Lacy, of Cromwelbothom, who married first, Matilda, (some say Mary,) daughter of sir Nicholas Wortley, of Wortley, by whom no issue. Secondly, Joan, (one MS. sais Alice,) daughter and heiress of Leventhorp. (J. Horsfall (Joseph Horsfall) Turner. Biographia Halifaxiensis : or, Halifax families and worthies. A biographical and genealogical history of Halifax Parish online)

m.11. NN WORTLEY

m.11.  NN x John LEVENTHORPE, Esq

NN was die dogter van Nicholas Wortley en Miss Moore.

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

The name of Leventhorpe is sufficiently uncommon to make one believe that the task of linking up the various branches of the family should be possible. Moreover, all the branches appear to have used the same Arms, which supports the belief in a common ancestor. Beyond isolated references to the name, the definite families are:

The Yorkshire Leventhorpes,

The Hertfordshire Leventhorpes,

The Essex Leventhorpes.

Of these, the Leventhorpes of Shingle Hall, Sawbridgeworth, are the best known.

Early in the fourteenth century, Wilham de Leventhorpe, the grandson of Adam, married Dyonisa, the heiress of Hugh de Horton, whereby the Manors of Horton and Clayton passed into the possession of the Leventhorpes. *None of the impalements agree with the marriages in either the Yorkshire or Hertfordshire branches with the exception of No. 625, which exemplifies Leventhorpe impaling - on a Chevron a mullet pierced a label of three points. This impalement is embodied as a quartering in one of the shields, now lost, in the brass to John Leventhorpe, who died 1488 (Plate II), which, I take to represent the arms of Totty (Vincent's Ordinary gives Argent a chevron Azure, charged with a mullet of the first for Totty. Glover gives the same without the mullet.)  In this case the boss commemorates the parents of John Leventhorpe, Senr., of Sawbridgeworth (1435). That he had some connection with Canterbury is evident from his Will, in which he leaves 100 marks to sustain four boys at Canterbury. Mr. Griffin dates the Cloisters at 1391-1411, which fits in quite well. Beyond knowing who the parents of John Leventhorpe were and that he himself owned the Manor of Leventhorpe, we do not know just how he fits into the Yorkshire Pedigree. I should not be at all surprised if further searches did not reveal that his ancestors contracted marriages with the Colepeppers, Cloptons, and Claverings, whose Arms are associated with Leventhorpe on the bosses.  (Kerr, P.W.:  The Leventhorpes of Sawbridgeworth, F.S.A., Rouge Croix Pursuivant)

m.12. NN WORTLEY

m.12.  NN x HOPTON.

NN was die dogter van Nicholas Wortley en  Miss Moore.

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

j.2. John WORTLEY, geb. 1340

j.2.  John, geb. 1340 x NN van Tankersley.

John was die seun van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth de Wannerville.

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

09/06/1365 (39 Edward III)  - Indenture between Elizabeth, late wife of Sir Nicholas de Wortelay and John Sayvill of Eland, by which the former granted to the latter, his heirs and executors, the custody of the lands and tenements which she had of the grant of Simon Simeon, and which Simon had had of the grant of Sir John duke of Lancaster, in Shitlyngton and Flocton by reason of the nonage of John son and heir of the said Sir Nicholas;  likewise with the marriage of the said John;  to hold until John be married and of full age and should he die unmarried and under age in like manner from heir to heir, until an heir be married and of full age and should he or any heir be married and die under age to hold until an heir be of full age, saving to Simon Simeon the marriage of the heir after one heir should have been married.  (Clay, Charles Travis ed.:  Yorkshire deeds: Vol 5)

A reasonable deduction may be that John Wortley was born on April 25, and came of age on April 25, 1373.  He was duly married and was living in 1424. (Elizabeth was a daughter and coheiress of Adam de Wannervile, lord of Hemsworth, and widow of Sir Nicholas de Wortley, who died in 1360.  Her will, dated at Hemsworth, Oct. 20 1382 for the connection of Hemsworth with the Wortley family as a result of this marriage.  The more genial situation of Hemsworth seduced for a while the Wortleys from their antient hereditary seat.) (Clay, Charles Travis ed.:  Yorkshire Deeds:, Volume 5)

j.3. Henry WORTLEY, geb. 1342

j.3.  Henry, geb. 1342 x NN SUTTON of Averham, co Nottinghamshire, Engeland.

Henry was die seun van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth de Wannerville.

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

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 

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)

j.4. Margaret WORTLEY, geb. 1344

j.4.  Margaret, geb. 1344, x Thomas BOWLING of Bowling Esq.

Margaret was die dogter van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth de Wannerville.

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

j.5. Jane WORTLEY, geb. 1346

j.5.  Jane, geb. 1346 x Richard PLUMLEY, Esq of Plumley co. Derby.

Jane was die dogter van Nicholas Wortley en Elizabeth de Wannerville.

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