Margaret (Jane) Holland

Margaret is a granddaughter of Robert and Maud....Daughter of son Thomas

She was the widow of John de la Warr, not Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell

Identity

Not the same as Margaret Tempest

Sir John Tempest I. This is the first Tempest for which we have a definite date of birth, 24 August 1283, known from a proof of age (see above under his father), dated October 1304, which may be found in a number of sources (CIPM v. 4, p. 171; Yorkshire Inquisitions v. 3, v. 37 of YASRS; and Cal. Genealogicum Henry II & Edward I, p. 657). I will not here provide a thorough discussion of what is known about John. Douglas Hickling and I have discussed the identification of his wife in an article to be found at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/families/tempest/index.shtml. This woman is shown in EBT and in some other pedigrees as Margaret Holland, daughter of Sir Robert Holand and Maud la Zouche. Hickling and I have shown that that is very unlikely and conclude that we do not know the identity of John's wife.

According to EBT, on 3 January 1297-98 Edward I granted his father's estates and John's wardship and marriage to Edmund, Earl of Cornwall to hold during the nonage of the heir, citing the above Escheator's Account. This entry does not refer to the heir. EBT continues: "In May 1299 the King, for £20, granted the marriage of John, son & heir of Richard Tempest to Master Thomas de Carbury alias Abbresbury (Exch. L.T.R. Memo. 26 & 27 Ed. 1 No 28. m. 68, in EBT notes). The £20 was acknowledged as paid to the exor's of the earl of Cornwall (Pipe Ro. 32 Ed. 1 m. 2d)." According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online) Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, died shortly before 25 September 1300 so this transfer to Abbresbury occurred before his death and his executors were reimbursed after his death. Evidently Thomas de Abbresbury [30] sold the marriage to Bolton priory which in turn sold it to William Mauleverer in 1299-1300 (Bolton Priory Compotus 1287-1325, v. 154 of Yorks. Arch. Soc., 2000, pp. 101, 115). We speculate in the article cited above that William Mauleverer may have had in mind marrying John to a daughter. It is likely that this William is the William Mauleverer of Beamsley discussed in EYC (v. 7, pedigree opposite p. 115 and pp. 118-19), d. ante 1317 and who held land of Skipton castle. According to EYC he is probably the William Mauleverer who had a daughter Joan who married Richard de Fauvelthorpe. But EYC does not mention a daughter who might have married John Tempest nor have I found one elsewhere.

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/families/tempest/tempest2.shtml

2. The second John Tempest was married first to Margaret Holand and then to Katherine Sherburne. This seems unlikely. It is well established that Margaret Holand was married to John la Warre who died in 1331. So she could have subsequently married John Tempest. However, her inquisitions post mortem (CIPM, v, 9, pp. 239-240) refer to her as the widow of John la Warre with no reference to John Tempest. As to the Visitation of Devon, we have suggested above that it should be discounted.