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 DESPENSER 291 3. Margery la Despensere, da. and h., aged 24 and more, or 26 and more, at her father's death. She m., istly (papal mandate for disp., 5 Sep. I404),() John (de Roos), Lord Roos, who was b. i ov 2 Oct. 1396, C") d.s.p., 22 Mar. 1 420/ !,('=) aged 24, being slain at the battle of Bauge in Anjou, and was bur. in Belvoir Priory. She had livery of her dower, which had been assigned to her by the King, 22 Nov. i42i.() She ?«., 2ndly (pardon for marrying without the King's lie, 25 June 1423, for a fine of 2,i,ooo),(°) secretly, and afterwards at Hemingborough, co. York, Roger WentworthEjO a yr. s. of John Wentworthe, of North Elmsall in that co. They had livery of her father's lands together with the lands which her father had held by the courtesy of England after the death of Elizabeth his wife, 29 Oct. 1424, Roger's homage being respited, and his fealty being ordered to be taken by the escheator in co. York.(8) He d. 24 Oct. 1445 {sic, should be 1452 or later].(^) Will dat. at Nettlestead, 5 June 1452, no probate.(') She d. Margeria uxor diet! Rogeri Wentworth' est filia et heres propinquior predict! Philippi le Despenser chivaler et est etatis xxvj [xxiiij — city of London] annorum et amplius." (Ch. Inq. p.m., Hen. VI, file li, no. 31: Exch. Inq. p. m., I, file 131, no. 2). According to Weever, ibid., Philip le Despenser had three other children, Philip, George, and Elizabeth (these must have died v.p. and !./>.), who were all bur. at the Grey Friars', Ipswich. (*) Papal mandate to the Bishop of Lincoln, dated non. Sep. 15 Boniface IX [5 Sep. 1404], to issue a dispensation that John, s. of William de Roos, Lord of Helmsley kt., and Margery, da. of Philip le Despenser kt., might intermarry, although related in the 4th-4th degrees of consanguinity. (Papal Letters, vol. v, p. 609). (•>) Ch. Inq. p. m. (on Beatrice, late the wife of Thomas de Roos of Helmsley chr.), Hen. V, file 14, no. 44. See Ros of Helmsley. (') Ch. Inq. p. m. (on John, Lord of Roos), Hen. V, file 60, no. 58. See Ros of Helmsley. (■*) This included the castles and manors of Helmsley, co. York, and Chilham, Kent. {Close Roll, 9 Hen. V, m. 4). {^) Patent Roll, I Hen. VI, p. 5, m. 6. (') They had contracted a lawful marriage per verba de presenti, but clandestinely, on account of their disparity of birth: and after consummation the said marriage had been solemnized in the parish church of Hemingborough, but without banns, fS'c. Papal grant that this marriage should be valid in all respects, dated 3 non. Maii 6 Eugenius IV [5 May 1436]. [Papal Letters, vol. viii, p. 601). if) Fine Roll, 3 Hen. VI, m. 7. Roger owed homage "racione prolis inter ipsum Rogerum et prefatam uxorem suam suscitate." C") "Rogerus Wentworth'." Writ of diem d. ext. 16 Oct. 4 Edw. IV. Inq., Suffolk, Thursday after All Saints [8 Nov.] 1464. " Et eciam dicunt juratores predicti quod predictus Rogerus obiit vicesimo quarto die Octobris anno regni Regis Henrici sexti nuper de facto et non de jure Regis Anglie vicesimo quarto et quis est ejus heres propinquior juratores dicunt quod ipsi penitus ignorant." (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. IV, file 15, no. 63). (^) Norwich Reg., Betyns, f. 96 (Harl. MSS., no. 10, f. 303). "Rogerus Wentworth' armiger . . . corpus meum ad sepeliendum in ecclesia fratrum minorum Gippewic'." In this will his son, Philip, is called miles: Philip was not yet knighted in May 1450.