[8] Wentworth was also a descendant of King Edward III; this remote royal ancestry is partly why Henry VIII found Jane Seymour (her daughter) marriageable.
[9] Margery's father, Henry Wentworth, rose to be a critical component of Yorkshire and Suffolk politics: in 1489, during the Yorkshire uprising against Henry VII who had married the female main claimant heir of the former Plantagenet dynasty in order to bolster his own shaky claim to the throne, he left his home and was named the steward of Knaresborough, earning him the privilege to keep the peace in the name of the first Earl of Surrey.
[8] She was given a place in the household of her aunt, the Countess of Surrey, where she met the poet John Skelton, whose muse she became.
[8] On 22 October 1494 Margery married Sir John Seymour (1476–1536)[10] of Wulfhall, Savernake Forest, Wiltshire.
Notably, her eldest daughter, Jane, was not schooled in a formal setting; Margery instead had her disciplined in more traditional roles that she deemed suitable.