John Temple

  General Notes:

JOHN TEMPLE, married Susan, daughter and heiress of Thomas Spencer of Everton, Northampton.

It is stated in Burk's Peerage that this ancient family derives its surname from the manor of Temple, County Leicester, and has its pedigree recorded in the "Visitation of Leicestershire", AD 1619:

18. John was the son of PETER Temple of Stowe, who in the latter years of Edward VI obtained a grant of the Manor of Marston Boteler, Co. Warwick, and married Millicent, daughter of William Jeklye, esq. of Nemington, Middlesex.

17. Peter was the son of THOMAS Temple, of Whitney, who married Alice, daughter and heiress of John Heritage, of Burton Dorset, in Coventry warwick.

16. Thomas was the son of WILLIAM Temple, of Whitney, who m. Isabel, daughter and heiress of Henry Everton, Esq.

15. William was the son of THOMAS de Temple of Whitney, Oxfordshire, who married Mary, daughter of Thomas Gendey, Esq.

14. Thomas was the son of RICHARD de Temple, who married Joan, daughter of William Shepey of Great Shepey, Leicestershire.

13. Richard was the son of NICHOLAS de Temple, who married Maud, daughter of John Burguillon, of Newton, in Leicestershire.

12. Nicholas was the son of RICHARD de Temple of Shepey, married Lady Agnes, daughter of Sir Ralph Stanley, Knt.

11. Richard was the son of NICHOLAS de Temple who married Lady Margery, daughter of Sir Roger Corbet, Knt. of Libton.

10. Nicholas was the son of RICHARD de Temple, Baron of Temple Manor, who married Catherine, daughter of Thomas de Langley.

9. Richard was the son of HENRY de Temple, Baron of Temple Manor and Little Shepey.

8. Henry was son of HENRY de Temple, Leicesterhire, who married Lady Maud, daughter of Sir John Ribbesford, Knt.

7. Henry was the son of GEOFFREY de Temple, Leicestershire.

6. Geoffrey was the son of HENRY de Temple, Baron of Temple, and little Shepey.

5. This Henry was a decendant of EDWIN, Earl of Leicestershire and Coventry, who assumed the surname, Temple, from the Manor of Temple, in the Hundred of Sparkenhor in Wellsboro, Lecestershire.

4. Edwin as son of EDWIN, King of the East Saxons, Eadwine Earl of Mercia. King Harald Hårdråde defeated Edwin and his younger brother Morcar, Earl of Northumbria, at the Battle of Fulford, near York Sept 20, 1066. Edwin was later killed in battle with the Normans, 1071. Edwin's sister, Ealdgyth, had been married to Harold Godwinson until the latter's death at Hastings on 14 October 1066.

3. His father was ALGAR, King of the East Saxons in 1053. Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, Earl of East Anglia, but also was exiled for a time.

2. Algar was the son of LEOFRIC, King of Leicester (Lodges Peerage of Ireland, under Viscount Palmerston). He married the famous Lady Godiva, who rode naked through Coventrytown by day to regain for the citizens the priviledges taken from them, and dying August 31, 1027. Leofric died 1057.

1. Leofric was the son of LEOFERN or Leoferin, Earl of Mercia.

John married.