Person:Agnes Dronsfield (1)

Agnes Dronsfield
 
  • F.  Dronsfield (add)
  1. William DronsfieldEst 1370 -
  2. Agnes DronsfieldEst 1375 -
  • HJohn WentworthEst 1370 - Aft 1413
  • WAgnes DronsfieldEst 1375 -
m.
  1. John WentworthEst 1395 -
  2. Sir Roger WentworthEst 1400 - 1452
  3. Thomas WentworthEst 1405 - 1450
  4. Richard WentworthEst 1410 - Aft 1477
Facts and Events
Name Agnes Dronsfield
Gender Female
Birth[4] Est 1375 West Bretton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Marriage to John Wentworth
References
  1.   Clay, J. W, and William Dugdale. Dugdale's visitation of Yorkshire, with additions. (Exeter: William Pollard, 1899-1917)
    1:294.

    'John Wentworth, of North Elmsall, living 1413, mar. Agnes, sister and coh. of Sir Wm. Dronsfield, of West Bretton.'

  2.   College of Arms (United Kingdom), and Charles Best Norcliffe (ed.). The visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, made by William Flower, Esquire, Norroy King of Arms. (London: Harleian Society, 1881)
    p. 340.

    'John Wentworth son and heyr [of John Wentworth] [married] Agnes doughter & quoheyre of William Dransfeld of West Breton.'

    This is the only one of the 3 sources that indicates that Agnes was the daughter of William, and appears to be an error. While her father may have been named William, it appears that she was the coheir of her brother William.

  3.   Wentworth, John. The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1878)
    1:26.

    'John Wentworth, Esq., of North Elmsall, who married Agnes, sister and coheir of Sir William Dronsfield, of West Bretton, in Yorkshire, ...'

  4. Birth year estimated based on estimated birth years of her husband and sons.