Brief Life History of Piers
When Sir Piers Tempest was born about 1382, in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England, his father, Sir Richard VII Tempest, was 27 and his mother, Margaret Staynforth, was 19. He married Grace Hebden in 1395, in Bracewell, Yorkshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1400. He died in 1417, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, at the age of 36.
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- Piers Tempest, "Find A Grave Index"
- Transcript of Eleanor Blanche Tempest’s, Tempest Pedigrees, Volume 1
- UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
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1382 · Wycliffe's Bible
John Wycliffe, English theologian and professor at the University of Oxford, completed a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into Middle English. This translation is known as Wycliffe's Bible and was completed around 1382.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): nickname for someone with a blustery temperament, from Middle English, Old French tempest(e) ‘storm’ (from Latin tempestas ‘weather, season’, a derivative of tempus ‘time’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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