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Henry Percy

Male 1393 - 1455  (62 years)


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  • Name Henry Percy 
    Birth 3 Feb 1393  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 22 May 1455  St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Burial St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Siblings 1 sibling 
    Person ID I18007  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LMW
    Last Modified 30 Oct 2017 

    Father Henry "Hotspur" Percy,   b. 20 May 1364   d. 21 Jul 1403, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Mortimer,   b. 12 Feb 1371, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Apr 1417 (Age 46 years) 
    Marriage Bef 10 Dec 1379  [1, 2
    Family ID F11196  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Eleanor Neville   d. Abt 1473 
    Children 
    +1. Henry Percy,   b. 25 Jul 1421   d. 29 Mar 1461, near Towton, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years)
    +2. Katherine Percy,   b. 28 May 1423, Leconfield, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 2 May 1493 and 17 Oct 1493 (Age 69 years)
    Family ID F11182  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Mar 2021 

  • Notes 
    • He was restored as Earl of Northumberland in 1416 and regranted his father's entailed estates. He was knighted by the king, to whom he remained faithful all his life. He was slain fighting for the Lancastrian cause at the First Battle of St. Albans.

  • Sources 
    1. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    2. [S4124] James L. Hansen, "The Ancestry of Joan Legard, Grandmother of the Rev. William1 Skepper/Skipper of Boston, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 69:129, Jul 1994.