Henry de Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland

1341 - 1408  (66 years)

• Name	Henry de Percy  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Suffix	1st Earl of Northumberland
  Birth	10 Nov 1341	Alnwick, Northumberland, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Feb 1408	Battle of Bramham Moor, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Burial	Alnwick, Northumberland, England   [3, 4]
  	Alnwick Abbey
  Person ID	I38762	Bob Juch's Tree
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy,   b. 1320, Seamer, North Riding, Yorkshire, England d. Abt 18 May 1368, Alnwick, Northumberland, England (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary "of Lancaster" Plantagenet,   b. Abt 1320, Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England d. 1 Sep 1362, Alnwick, Northumberland, England (Age 42 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F21218	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Neville,   b. 12 Feb 1339, Raby, Durham, England d. 12 May 1372, Alnwick, Northumberland, England (Age 33 years)
  Marriage	12 Jul 1358	Brancepeth, Durham, England   [2]
  Children	1. Henry "Hotspur" Percy, Baron Percy,   b. 20 May 1364, Alnwick, Northumberland, England d. 21 Jul 1403, Battle of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England (Age 39 years)  [natural]   2. Thomas de Percy   d. 1386  [natural]   3. Ralph de Percy   d. 1399  [natural]   4. Alan de Percy  [natural]   5. Margaret de Percy  [natural]
  Family ID	F14221	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Family 2	Maud de Lucy,   b. Bef 1359   d. 18 Dec 1398 (Age > 39 years)
  Marriage	3 Oct 1383
  Family ID	F14222	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 10 Nov 1341 - Alnwick, Northumberland, England Marriage - 12 Jul 1358 - Brancepeth, Durham, England Burial - - Alnwick, Northumberland, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Henry de Percy, 4th Lord Percy, of Alnwick, a distinguished military commander in the reign of Edward III, who, assisting as marshal of England at the coronation of King Richard II, was advanced on the same day, 6 July, 1377, to the Earldom of Northumberland, with remainder to his heirs generally, and, like a barony in fee, transmissible, it would appear, to female as well as male heirs. He m. 1st, 1358, Margaret, dau. of Ralph, Lord Nevil, Ro Raby, and had issue. Henry, Thomas, Ralph, Alan, and Margaret. The earl m. 2ndly, Maud, sister and heir of Anthony, Lord Lucy, which Anthony settled upon his lordship and his heirs, the honour and castle of Cockermouth with other great estates, on condition that her arms should be forever quarterd with those of the Percys. In the 7th year of Richard II [1384], the earl having been elected one of the knights of the Garter, the king bestowed upon him the robes of the order out of the royal wardrobe. In some years afterwards, however, being proclaimed a traitor, and his land declared forfeited by King Richard, his lordship, in conjunction with his son, Sir Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur, and Henry, Duke of Lancaster, accomplished the dethronement of that monarch and placed the crown upon the head of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, under the title of Henry IV. In requital, the king gave Percy the Isle of Man, by the tenure of carrying in the left hand the sword (which he wore when he landed in Holderness) at the coronation of himself and his successors. Against dissatisfied with the governemnt, the ducke is charged with concerting the rebellion, in which his son, Hotspur, and his brother, the Earl of Worcester, engaged, in 1403, for transferring the sceptre to Mortimer, Earl of March, then a boy. Of these two eminent persons, Sir Henry Percy, the renowned Hotspur, fell performing prodigies of valour, at Battle-field, near Shrewsbury, 21 July, 1403, and Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, was beheaded after the battle at Shrewsbury. The Earl of Northumberland fell subsequently (29 February, 1407-8), in arms against the king, at Bramham Moor, nearl Haslewood, when his honour became forfeited under an attainder, but were restored, in 1414, to his grandson (Hotspur's only son), Henry de Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 423-4, Percy, Barons Percy, Earls of Northumberland, &c.]

  
  

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