Tempest

My Tempest ancestors

The following Tempest line is from the book "Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith".

"The Parish of Bracewell, with the adjoining hamlet of Stoke, was a part of the great fee of Roger of Poitou, who came with William I, in 1066, remaining in his hand at the time of the Domesday Survey. The two great Saxon lords, Ulchil and Archil, had had to give us these lordships to this powerful Norman invader; and it was probably not long after the date of the Domesday Survey that these manors were granted to Roger de Tempest. That this man was a Norman, the name will not permit us to doubt; that he was a dependent of Roger of Poitou is extremely probable; that he was, at all events, possessed of these manors in the reign of Henry I is absolutely certain.  The name Tempest, whatever its origin, seems to have been venerated by the family; as in the two next centuries, when local appellations became almost universal, they never chose to part with it. It is also alluded to in their armorial bearing."  

Arms: Argent a bend between 6 storm-finches or martlets sable.
Crest: A griffin's head erased per pale argent and sable, beaked gules.
Motto: Loyfe as thou fyndes.

01. Roger Tempest was born abt. 1118 in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.  He was progenitor of the oldest and most distinguished of the Craven families now surviving.  He was lord of the manor of Bracewell, and founder of the Bolton Priory.  In 1135 he held three carucates and two oxgangs of land of the Skipton fees.  He had a brother Richard who attests several charters along with him.  His wife's name is unknown.  He died in 1181.  

02. Richard Tempest, son of Roger was born abt. 1148 in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.  He married Alice de Meschines, daughter of Cyril de Meschines in abt. 1173. Richard was living in 1178.

03. Roger Tempest, son of Richard and Alice was born abt. 1174 in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.  He married Alice de Rillieston, daughter of Elias de Rillieston and Alice Hebden in abt. 1199.  He paid a fine of half a mark for unjust disseisen, 14th of Henry II, 1167/8.  He died in 1209.

04. Richard Tempest, son of Roger and and Alice was born abt. 1200 in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.  He married Elena de Tonge in abt. 1220.   He was Abbot of Kirkstall and claimed the right of presentation to the church of Bracewell, 1230/1, and it was yielded to him 1233.

05. John Tempest, son of Richard and and Elena was born abt. 1221 in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.  His wife's name is unknown.  He was living in 1255/56.

06. Sir Roger Tempest, son of John was born abt. 1242 in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.  He married Alice de Waddington, daughter and heiress of William or Walter de Waddington in abt 1262.  He was witness to an award between Walter de Remington and William de Roncaster.  Roger died before 1293. 

07. Richard Tempest, son of Roger and Alice was born abt. 1263 in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.  His wife's name is unknown.  In ward 20th of Edward I, and then paid 12 shilling had four carucates of land in Bracewell and claimed against Henry de Coupmanthorp, five messuages in Skipton in Craven, 23rd of Edward I.  He died in 1305/6.

08. Sir John Tempest, son of Richard was born on August 24, 1283 in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.   He married Margaret Holland, daughter of Sir Robert Holland in abt. 1310.  John was Lord of Bracewell and Waddington, 9th of Edward II, 1315-6.  He was summoned to attend the King at Westminster with men at arms in 1323.  He was engaged with Roger, Lord Clifford, and the Earl of Lancaster in removing Piers de Gaveston, favorite of Edward II, from the Counsels, an act of duty to their deceased sovereign (Edward I), rather than of disobedience to the then living one, and received a pardon under the great seal.  In the 1346, he held one carucate of land in Waddington and four carucates in Bracewell, and in 1349 he was seised of above manors and lands in Stock, Rilston, Kighley and Skipton. He died in 1351.

09. Sir Richard Tempest, son of John and Margaret was born abt. 1317 in Studely, Yorkshire, England.  He married 1st Joanna Hertford, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Hertford, Lord of Hertford, County York.  He married 2nd Isabel le Gras, only child and heir of John le Gras, Lord of Sturley. (Isabel married 2nd Hugh de Clitherow, and had a daughter Isabel, who married her stepbrother, Richard Tempest; see next generation.) This Sir Richard Tempest was Governor of Berwick-on-Tweed, 16th of Edward III, 1343, in which year Sir Thomas de Hertford, his father-in-law, entailed the manors of Hertford and Appleton, by fine, upon Richard and Joanna, his wife.  In 1357 he was a commissioner to treat with the Scots for the delivery of King Robert Bruce. He was given the highest trusts upon the Scottish border, under Edward III, and deputed to see that the truce with the Scots was obeyed.  His will was dated in 1379, the year of his death.

10. Sir Richard Tempest, son of Richard and Joanna was born abt. 1355 in Yorkshire, England.  He married Isabel de Clitherow, daughter and co-heiress with her sister Mary, of Sir Hugh de Clitherow and Isabel, stepmother of Sir Richard Tempest.  They married abt. 1388.  He was Knight of Bracewell and Studley, County York, 8th of Henry IV. Will dated Aug. 26, 1427, proved Sept. 30, 1428.

11. Sir Piers (Pierce) Tempest, son of Richard and Isabel was born abt. 1391 in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.  He married Dorothy Hebden, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Nicholas Hebden by Dorothy, daughter and heir of Sir Nicholas Rye, of the ancient family of Rye.  Hebden Arms: Ermine 5 fusils in fess gules.  The couple married abt. 1410.  He accompanied Henry V into France and was at the Battle of Agincourt when he was knighted by the King.

12. Sir John Tempest, son of Piers and Dorothy was born abt. 1410 in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.  He married Alice Sherbourne, daughter of Richard Sherbourne and Agnes Stanley in abt. 1430 in Mitton Craven, Yorkshire, England.  Knight, High Sheriff of Yorkshire 18th and 37th of Henry VI, and of Lancaster 34th of Henry VI, 1456. He concealed Henry VI at Bracewell after the Battle of Hexham. He was aged 27 at the death of his father in 1428. His will was dated Nov. 29, 1463, and proved Feb. 8, 1464.

13. Agnes Tempest, daughter of John and Alice was born abt. 1448 in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England.  She married Sir William Calverly on January 7, 1442 in a contracted marriage.  William is the son of Walter Calverly and Elizabeth Sneyd.  I descend from Agnes and William's son William who married Alice Saville.

Sources used in this book on the Tempest line :

- Foster's Pedigrees of County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 1, Part 2. Tempest chart
- Whitaker's History of Craven, p. 96 
- Thoresby's History of Leeds, Vol. 2, p. 116

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