Career
Philip is listed in the Complete Peerage as being age 36 at the death of his father Philip Despencer in 1401. He was knighted in 1385. By this marriage he inherited the manors of Nettlestead and Barrow among others
lieutenant appears that he was never summoned to Parliament, and died on 20 June 1424 without male heir.
Margery and Roger Wentworth were ancestors to Jane Seymour, third queen consort of King Henry VIII.