Isabel (Unknown) Tempest (abt. 1530)

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Isabel Percy was the illegitimate daughter of Sir Ingram or Ingelram Percy.^[1] Her father died unmarried in 1538, His will dated 6 June 1538 states:

Item I bequeth to my Doughter twenty pounds the whiche twenty pounds I will that my Lady my Mother shal haue the vse thereof wt the Childe vntill she be of laufull age Item I bequeth to the moder of the said Childe twenty nobles^[2]

She was the granddaughter of Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, and his wife Katharine Spencer. Her grandmother's will dated 14 October 1542 states:

the saide testatrix disposeth that Stephan Temposte of Broughton, esquier, sbulde have the order and governance of the saide Isabell Percie, with all her parte and porcon, to the entent that Henrie Tempeste, sone and here of the saide Steven, shall marie and take to wif the said Isabell, accordinge to the gret confidence and truste that shoe doo putt in the saide Stephane and Anne his wif.^[3]

She married Henry Tempest, the son of Stephen Tempest of Broughton, Yorkshire, They had nine children: (Sir) Stephen, Henry, George, Roger, Thomas, Anne, Mary, Dorothy and Frances.^[4]

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1. ↑ C B Norcliffe, The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, made by William Flower, Esquire, London, 1881, pages 315-6 (accessed 21 Feb 2020).
2. ↑ Collectanea topographica et genealogica, volume 6, London, 1840, pages 273-4 (accessed 21 Feb 2020).
3. ↑ Testamenta Eboracensia: A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York, volume 6, 1902, pages 166-8 (accessed 21 Feb 2020).
4. ↑ William Dugdale, Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, 1894, Page 122 (accessed 21 Feb 2020).

• Collins, Arthur, and Egerton Brydges. "Percy, Duke of Northumberland." Collins's Peerage of England Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. Vol. II. London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son ... [et Al., 1812. 217-366. Print.

• Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, J. W. Clay, ed. (Exeter: William Pollard & Co., The Printing Works., 1894)

• Page 122: "Henry Tempest, of Broughton, 22 at his father's death; signed the Visitation of 1585; rebuilt Broughton Hall, d. 17 Feb. 1604/5, I.P.M. 23 Sept. 1605, mar. Isabel, nat. dau. of Sir Ingelram Percey, son of fifth Earl of Northumberland. They had issue--"