Dorothy (Lee) Temple (abt. 1597 - 1625)

Born about Feb 1597 in Buckinghamshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of John Temple — married 3 Jun 1610 in England

Descendants

Died 1625 at about age 27 in Buckinghamshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Dorothy Lee was the daughter and co-heiress of Dorothy Browne and her first husband, Edmund Lee, Esq.^[1][2] Dorothy was aged two years, one month and two days at her father's 20 March 1599 death,^[3] giving her a date of birth about 18 February 1597. She may have been born at Pitstone or Stantonbury, Buckinghamshire, where her father held lands.

Dorothy and her sister Mary were minors when their father died in March 1599. The income on their inheritance was in the hands of the Queen in June 1601.^[4]

Dorothy married John Temple, Knt., younger son of Thomas Temple, Knt., 1st Baronet, and Hester Sandys,^[5][6] on 3 June 1610: the date is given by the record of an astrological/medical consultation by her and her husband in 1612.^[7] Dorothy brought half the manor of Stantonbury to the marriage.^[8] They had five sons and three daughters:

• Peter, Knt.,^[1][6] married Eleanor Tyrell and had issue^[5]
• Col. Thomas, Knt.,^[6] Baronet of Nov Scotia, Governor of Acadia, died 27 March 1674^[1]
• Col. Edmund,^[1][6] married Eleanor Hervey and had issue^[5]
• Purbeck,^[1][5] died August 1695, married Sarah Draper, no issue^[6]
• John,^[1] baptized 6 November 1620^[5]
• Dorothy,^[5][6] baptized at Stowe, Buckinghamshire on 17 October 1616; married John Alston, Esq. and had issue^[1]
• Hester,^[5][6] wife of Edward Paschal^[1]
• Mary,^[6] baptized at Stowe on 5 August 1623; married Robert Nelson, Esq. and had issue^[1]

Dorothy died in 1625. Her husband remarried in 1626 to Frances Bromfield, widow of Thomas Alston. John died 23 September 1632 and was buried with Dorothy at Stantonbury, Buckinghamshire.^[1] On a stone in the pavement within the communion rails is inscribed the following:

Here rest the Bodys of Sir John Temple, Knight, and of Dame Dorothy his first wife, one of the two daughters and heirs of Edmund Lee, Esq. late Lord of this Manor, by whom he had issue living at the time of his death 4 sonnes and 3 daughters. She dyed ye --- day of 1625, and he dyed the 23 day of Sept. 1632, Dame Frances his 2a wife surviving, who placed heere this marble.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013), vol. V, pp. 138-139, TEMPLE 18: Dorothy Lee.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011), vol. III, pp. 230-231, NELSON 17. Google Books.
3. ↑ J. Henry Lea. "Genealogical Notes on the Family of Lee of Quarrendon" in The Genealogist, Vol. 9, p. 31. Archive.org: IPM of Edmund Lee.
4. ↑ The National Archives Discovery. Records of the Exchequer. E 179/79/245
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6} George Lipscomb. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckinghamshire, vol. 3. J. & W. Robins, 1847, p. 86. Google Books.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7} The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, Vol. 4, Part 2. John Nichols, 1811, p. 958-960. University of Leicester.
7. ↑ The Casebooks Project (the Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier), CASE40605: Interrogation (Marriage) concerning Sir John Temple [Mr John Temple] (PERSON35952) and Young Lady Dorothy Temple [Mrs Dorothy Temple [Lea], web, accessed 27 August 2023
8. ↑ William Page, ed. 'Parishes : Stantonbury', in A History of the County of Buckingham. Volume 4. London, 1927, pp. 462-466. British History Online.
9. ↑ Some Account of the Temple Family. New York: 1887, pp. 38-40. Google Books.

• Page, William, ed. 'Parishes: Pitstone', in A History of the County of Buckingham. Volume 3. London, 1925, pp. 406-412. British History Online.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed/updated on 14 July 2022 by Thiessen-117.

Dorothy (Lee) Temple appears in a trail that was identified and badged by the Magna Carta Project from Gateway Ancestors John Nelson and Margaret Nelson to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy in 2015. Other trails were later identified and badged from the Nelsons to surety barons John de Lacy, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, Hugh le Bigod, Roger le Bigod, Robert de Vere and John FitzRobert. All these trails were re-reviewed/updated/badged in July/August 2022. They can be viewed in the Magna Carta Trails section of John Nelson's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".