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The family of TEMPEST has maintained a leading position in the county of York from a remote period, and many of its members held places of great trust upon the Scottish Border, in the reigns of the EDWARDS and the HENRIES.
ROGER TEMPEST, lord of the manor of Bracewell, b. in the last year of WILLIAM the Conqueror, was living temp. HENRY I., and witnessed (with his brother Richard) several charters cited in the Monasticon. His son,
RICHARD TEMPEST, whose name is attached to the charter of Silsden Mill, 18 King STEPHEN, was s. by his son,
ROGER TEMPEST, who paid, 14 HENRY II., half a mark into the treasury, as appears by the pipe-roll of that date. This Roger was father of
RICHARD TEMPEST, of Bracewell, who gave, in 1223, the advowson of the church of that place to the Abbot of Kirkstal. His son,
JOHN TEMPEST, was the father of
SIR ROGER TEMPEST, Knt. of Bracewell, living temp. EDWARD I., who m. Alice, dau. and heiress of Walter de Waddington, Lord of Waddington, and was s. by his son,
RICHARD TEMPEST, of Bracewell, who d. in 1305, leaving two sons,
JOHN, his heir.
Richard (Sir), Knt., governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in the reign of EDWARD III. Sir Richard m. Johanna, dau. and heiress of Thomas de Hertford.
source: Burke, John and Bernard Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2. London, UK: Henry Colburn, 1847.
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