Katherine Sherburne

• Preferred Name: Katherine Sherburne^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Death: AFT AUG 1354 in Carleton, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.8525 LONG: E3.0079 with note: In August 1354 Katherine wife of Sir John Tempest of co. York had a Papal indult to choose her own confessor at the hour of her death.
  
• FSID: GS21-Q3T
  
• Birth: 1312 in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.8737 LONG: E2.3873
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Catherine Sherburne
  d/o sir, Robert Sherburne, of Mitton & Stoneyhurst & Alice Blackburne
  b- abt 1320 -Mitton, Lancashire, England
  m- sir, John Tempest, of Bracewell
  d- after 1358 - Bracewell, Yorkshire, England
  
  6 Jan 1353- agreements made between - ALICE, widow of Robert Sherburne, Knt, and Sir John TEMPEST, knt, & KATHERINE, his wife, That on the day of these agreements were made said John shall have all the corn sown on lands that the said John & Catherine, have of the gift of said ALICE
  
  1353 - Lancaster - Katherine & Sir John Tempest her husband, brought a writ of novel disseisin of land in Wood Plumpton, by her attorney Adam Fox -vs- John & Isabel Stafford & others
  
  Aug 1354 - Sir JOHn Tempest & Katherine his wife, of the dioese of York, obtained a papal induit to choose their confessors
  
  Mar 1350 - acknowledged a debt & arranging payment -to- sir William Clifton, from Lady ALICE, who was wife of sir Robert Sherburne, sir, JOHN Tempest, the yr, Robert Shirburne, clerk, William Sherburne
  
  === Discrepancy in various records as to who the wife is of John Tempest of 1313 and who the wife is of John Tempest of 1283 ===
  Various records that are available on the internet report different wives for John Tempest, Knight of Bracewell, born about 1313 (LHPJ-347) and his father John Tempest, Lord of Bracewell, born about 1283 (LYLC-S81). Some records list the wife of John Tempest of 1313 as Catherine (Katherine) Sherburne and the wife of John Tempest of 1283 as Margaret Holland (Holand). Other records reverse the wives and list the wife of John Tempest of 1313 as Margaret Holland and the wife of John Tempest of 1283 as Catherine Sherburne.
  
  Probably the most definitive records for documenting the wives of the two John Tempests (father and son) is Burke's "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain", Volume 2, Page 1447, (see memories section) and Burke's "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire," Page 1098, (see memories section) which report the wife of John Tempest of 1283 is Katherine Sherburne and the wife of John Tempest of 1313 is Margaret Holland (although Burke's Peerage and Baronetage calls her Mary Holland rather than Margaret). That would, of course, mean that Katherine Sherburne is the mother of John Tempest of 1313 and not his wife. According to Burke's Landed Gentry, cited above, when John Tempest of 1283 died in 1359, he left three sons born of Katherine Sherburne, daughter of Sir Richard Sherburne, Knight: John (his heir), Richard and Peter. Katherine Sherburne (Tempest) was still living in 1353, according to Burke's Landed Gentry, and that would also certainly suggest she is the mother of John Tempest of 1313 and not his wife.
  
  Following the documentation from Burke's Landed Gentry and Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, I have made Katherine Sherburne the wife of John Tempest of 1283 and the mother of John Tempest of 1313 and also made Margaret Holland the wife of John Tempest of 1313.
  
  Michael Grimshaw

1. Ann Tempest, b. ABT 1325     d. DECEASED

1. Title: Medieval English Geneaology : Tempest wives & Daughters in the late Medieval Period
   
2. Title: Burke’s Family Records (Indexed)
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/1860/records/28465;
   
3. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
   Author: Ancestry Family Tree
   
4. Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/9289/records/11316450;