Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth

He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Wentworth, de jure 5th Baron le Despencer of the 1387 creation, and was a nephew of Margery Wentworth, the mother of Jane Seymour.

[1] He had two younger brothers, Philip and Richard, and five sisters, Anne, Elizabeth, Dorothy, Margery and Thomasine.

They had a large family of eight sons and nine daughters,[4] including Thomas, later 2nd Baron Wentworth.

[5][6] In 1523, Wentworth took part in Suffolk's failed invasion of France and was knighted by him.

He was one of the peers who signed the letter to the pope in favour of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.