'Tempest02'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Tempest of Bolling, Tempest of Bracewell

                               
Sir John Tempest of Bracewell, Sheriff of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (a 1455)
m. Alice Sherburne (dau of Sir Robert Sherburne of Stonyburst)
1. Nicholas Tempest of Bracewell
  m. Margaret Pilkington (dau of John Pilkington)
  A. Sir Richard Tempest of Bracewell (a 09.1513)
  m. Rosamund Bolling (dau/heir of Tristram Bolling of Bolling Hall)
i. Sir Thomas Tempest of Barropar & Bracewell, Sheriff of Yorkshire (dsp)
  m1. Margaret Bosville (dau/heir of William Bosville of Chevit)
  m2. Margaret Tempest (dau of Sir Thomas Tempest, "his grete Uncle") @@ below
  ii. John Tempest of Bracewell, Sheriff of Yorkshire(dsp)
  m. Anne Lenthall (dau of William Lenthall of Henley, widow of Sir Thomas Tempest/Smith, m3. George Smyth of co. Durham)
  iii. Nicholas Tempest of Bracewell & Bolling
  m. Beatrix Bradford (dau/heir of John Bradford of The Heath)
  a. Richard Tempest of Bracewell (dsp 1570-1)
  m1. Hellen (dsps before 1578, dau of Lord Scroope)
  m2. Elizabeth Wentworth (dau of Thomas Wentworth of Elmsall)
b. Robert Tempest of Bracewell (a 1585)
  Commoners identified Robert's wife as Ann, dau of Richard Pigot of Derbyshire, but Visitation identified her as ...
  m. Ann Pigott (dau of Bartholomew Pigott of Oxfordshire)
  (1) Sir Richard Tempest of Bracewell & Bolling (b c1575, a 1612)
  m. Elizabeth Rodes (dau of Justice (Sir Francis) Rodes or Rhodes of Woodthorpe)
  (A) Richard Tempest of Bracewell & Bolling (d 30.11.1657, Colonel)
  m. Elizabeth Clifton (dau of Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton)
  (i) Elizabeth Tempest
  m. John South
(B) Troth Tempest
  m. (Sir) Thomas Tempest of Stella (d 08.1641)
  (C) Frances Tempest (b c1601, a 1612)
  m1. John Osbaldeston of Osbaldeston
  m2. John Ward
  c. daughter probably of this generation
  m. James Tempest of Rayne
  e. Rosamund Tempest probably of this generation
  m. Anthony Franke of Alwoodley
  f. Margaret Tempest probably of this generation
  m. Gregory Waterhouse of Syddal & Halifax (bur 19.10.1589)
  g. Beatrix Tempest probably of this generation
  m. (c1546) Alexander Rushworth (a 1584)
  h. Elizabeth Tempest possibly of this generation
  m. Stephen Pudsey of Arnforth (a 1563)
  iv. Tristram Tempest of Brightwistle (7th son)
  m. Alice (not Joan) Methley (dau/heir of Alexander Methley)
  a. John Tempest
  m. _ Skeres (dau/heir of Thomas Skeres of Burghwallis)
(1) Thomas Tempest (eldest son)
  b. Richard Tempest of Hage
m. _ Atherton (dau of _ Atherton of Harewood)
(1) Cotton Tempest
  c.+ other issue - Avery, Francis
  v. Henry Tempest of Tong Hall (b c1515, bur 06.04.1591)
  m. (c03.1526/7) Ellinor Mirfield (d 19.01.1600/1, dau/heir of Christopher Mirfield of Tong Hall)
  vi. Joan Tempest
  m. Sir Thomas Waterton of Walton
  vii. Anne Tempest
  m. John Lacy of Cromwelbotham
  viii. Beatrice Tempest
  m. William Gaskon or Gascoigne (son/heir of Sir William of Gawthorp)
  ix. Elsabeth Tempest
m. Sir Peter Frecheville (Freswell) of Staveley
  x. Alice Tempest probably of this generation
  m. Henry Grimshaw of Clayton (b 1467, d 1507)
  xi.+ other issue (dsp) - Robert, George, Christopher
  B. Margaret Tempest probably of this generation
  m1. _ Dowtye of Drax, Yorkshire
  i. Elizabeth Dowtye
  m. William Eland of Carleton
  m2. John Eland of Carleton (d 1520)
2. Sir Thomas Tempest (a 1463)
  A. Margaret Tempest
  m. Sir Thomas Tempest of Bracewell @@ above
3. Alice Tempest
  m. Sir Thomas Talbot de Bashall (d 1498)
4. Anne Tempest
m. Sir Thomas Metham
5. Agnes Tempest
  m. (1442) William Calverley of Calverley
6. Maria Tempest
  m. John Sherburne
7. Isabel Tempest
  Shown as married to Laurence Hamerton of Hamerton and Wigglesworth but we suspect that this is a confusion with another Isabella.
8. Jane Tempest
  m. William Ratcliffe (of) Rillestone
9. Grace Tempest probably of this generation
  m. (1448) Richard Halsall of Halsall (d by 1471?)

Main source(s): Commoners (vol I, 'Plumbe-Tempest of Tong', p290+) with a little input/support from Visitation (Yorkshire, 1563/4, 'Tempest'), Visitation (Yorkshire, Foster, 1584/5+1612, 'Tempest of Bracewell and Tong')
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