Henry PERCY^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]}

1449 - 1489  (~ 40 years)

• Name	Henry PERCY
  Birth	Apr 1449	Leconfield, Yorkshire, England   [10]
  Gender	Male
  AFN	8HR3-03
  FamilySearch ID	LTN8-4ZC
  MilitaryService	29 Mar 1461	Towton, Yorkshire, England   [10]
  	Yorkist
  Title of Nobility	1470  [10]
  	4th Earl of Northumberland
  Occupation	1470  [10]
  	He held the office of Warden of the Eastern and Middle Marches.
  TitleOfNobility	18 Aug 1474  [10]
  	Knight of the Garter (K.G.).
  Military Service	22 Aug 1485	Ambion Hill, Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England   [10]
  MilitaryService	[10]
  	He led a major portion of King Richard III's army at the Battle of Bosworth, but failed to commit his troops.
  MilitaryService	22 Aug 1485	Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England   [10]
  	Battle of Bosworth
  _UID	2FD81CE371F74A8BB13BCAAEBE9454A0ED9A
  Death	28 Apr 1489	Cock Lodge, Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England
  Burial	Beverly Minister, Beverly, Yorkshire, England
  Person ID	I5038	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	Henry PERCY,   b. 25 Jul 1421, Leckonfield, Yorkshire, England d. 29 Mar 1461, Battle Of Towton (Age 39 years)
  Mother	Eleanor POYNINGS,   b. 25 Jul 1421, Poynings, Suffolk, Gloucestershire, England d. Feb 1484, Raby Castle, Durham, England (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	25 Jun 1435	Yorkshire, England
  Family ID	F2525	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maud HERBERT,   b. 1448, Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 27 Jul 1485, Beverley Minster, Beverley, Yorkshire, England (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	1473	Windsor, Berkshire, England
  	, , , Eng
  Children	1. Johanna "Joan" PERCY,   b. 2 May 1475, Petworth, Sussex, England d. 10 Jul 1547, Southminster, Essex, England (Age 72 years)   2. Henry Algernon PERCY,   b. 13 Jan 1477, Alnwick, Northumberland, England d. 19 May 1527, Wressell, East Riding, Yorkshire, England (Age 50 years)   3. Eleanor PERCY,   b. 1480, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, England d. 13 Feb 1530 (Age 50 years)   4. William PERCY,   b. Abt 1480, , Leconfield, Yorkshire, England d. Aft 1536 (Age ~ 57 years)   5. Allan PERCY,   b. Abt 1481, , Leconfield, Yorkshire, England d. Aft 1536 (Age ~ 56 years)   6. Josceline PERCY,   b. Abt 1483, , Leconfield, Yorkshire, England d. 8 Sep 1532, Great Sandall, Berkshire, England (Age ~ 49 years)   7. Anne PERCY,   b. 1485   d. 1552 (Age 67 years)   8. Arundel PERCY,   b. Abt 1485, , Leconfield, Yorkshire, England d. 1544 (Age ~ 59 years)
  Family ID	F2547	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Henry Percy, Fourth Earl of Northumberland (1446-1489) HENRY PERCY, fourth Earl of Northumberland (1446-1489), was the only son of Henry Percy, third earl. On his father's attainder, Edward IV committed him to safe keeping, and three years later conferred the forfeited earldom of Northumberland on John Neville, lord Montagu. Percy's imprisonment cannot have been very strict, for in 1465 he was confined in the Fleet, where he made the acquaintance of John Paston (1421-1466), a fellow-prisoner (Paston Letters, ii. 237,243). His subsequent transference to the Tower may be attributed to the Nevilles when they held the king in durance after the battle of Edgecott in 1469. One of Edward's first steps on shaking off this constraint was to release Percy (27 Oct.), merely exacting an oath of fealty. When the final breach with the Nevilles came in the following spring, and the king drove the Earl of Warwick out of the realm, he took the earldom of Northumberland from Lord Montagu, and restored it (25 March at York) to Percy, who had accompanied him throughout the campaign. The new earl also superseded his disgraced rival in the wardenship of the east march towards Scotland, which had usually been held by the head of his house. This he lost again in the autumn, when the Nevilles restored Henry VI, and though Northumberland made no open resistance to the change of government, and could not very well be deprived of his newly recovered title, the Lancastrian traditions of his family did not blind him to the fact that for him it was a change for the worse. On landing in Yorkshire in the following spring, Edward is said to have exhibited letters, under Northumberland's seal, inviting him to return; and though he 'sat still' and did not join Edward, his neutrality was afterwards excused, as due to the difficulty of getting his Lancastrian followers to fight for York, and was held to have rendered 'notable good service' to the cause by preventing Montagu from rousing Yorkshire against the small Yorkist force. Twelve days after the battle of Barnet, Northumberland was created chief justice of the royal forests north of Trent by the triumphant Edward, and, after Tewkesbury, he was made constable of Bamborough Castle (5 June) and warden of the east and middle marches (24 June). In the parliament of August 1472, the first held by Edward since his restoration of the earldom to Percy, the attainder of 1461 was formally abrogated. Shortly after the opening of the session Northumberland was appointed chief commissioner to treat with the Scots. Two years later he entered the order of the Garter, and was made sheriff of Northumberland for life. In 1475 he was given a colleague in his wardenship, in order that he might accompany the king in his expedition to France, and his presence is noted by Commines at the interview between Louis XI and Edward at Pecquigny. He led the van in the Duke of Gloucester's invasion of Scotland in June 1482, and Berwick, then recovered, was entrusted to his keeping. Richard of Gloucester, when he assumed the protectorship, was careful to conciliate Northumberland by renewing his command as warden of the marches and captain of Berwick. A few weeks later the earl had no scruples in recognising Richard as king, and bore the pointless sword, curtana, the emblem of royal mercy, before him in the coronation procession. The office of great chamberlain of England, which the Duke of Buckingham forfeited by rebellion in October, was bestowed upon Northumberland (30 Nov. 1483), together with the lordship of Holderness, which had long belonged to the Staffords, and formed a desirable addition to the Percy possessions in Yorkshire. Richard gave him many offices of profit, and lands valued at nearly a thousand a year. Parliament restored to him all the lands forfeited by the Percy rebellions under Henry IV and not yet recovered. Next to the Duke of Norfolk's, Richard bid highest for Northumberland's loyalty. But he was not more ready to sink or swim with Richard than he had been with Edward. Some months before he landed in England, Henry of Richmond had entertained a suggestion that he should marry a sister-in-law of Northumberland. When the crisis arrived the earl obeyed Richard's summons, and was at Bosworth, apparently in command of the right wing, but his troops never came into action; and, if Polydore [Vergil] may be believed, he would have gone over early in the battle had Richard not placed a close watch upon him. Northumberland was taken prisoner by the victor, but at once received into favour and soon restored to all his offices in the north, and employed in negotiations with Scotland. In the spring of 1489 he was called upon to deal with the resistance of the Yorkshiremen to the tenth of incomes demanded for the Breton war. On 10 April he was appointed commissioner, with the archbishop of York and others, to investigate and punish the disturbances in York at the election of mayor in the previous February. Towards the end of the month he was alarmed by the attitude of the people in the vicinity of his manor of Topcliffe, near Thirsk, and on Saturday, 24 April, wrote to Sir Robert Plumpton from Seamer, close to Scarborough, ordering him to secretly bring as many armed men as he could to Thirsk by the following Monday. On Wednesday, 28 April, having gathered a force estimated at eight hundred men, he came into conflict with the commons, whose ringleader was one John a Chamber, near Thirsk, at a place variously called Cockledge or Blackmoor Edge, and was slain at the first onset. It was at first reported that he had gone out unarmed to appease the rebels. Some affirmed that over and above the immediate cause of collision the commons had not forgiven him for his conduct to Richard, who had been very popular in Yorkshire. Bernard Andreas wrote a Latin ode of twelve stanzas on his death, and Skelton wrote an elegy in English. He was buried in the Percy chantry, on the north side of the lady-chapel of Beverley Minster, where his tomb, from which the effigy has disappeared, may still be seen. By his wife, Maud Herbert, daughter of William Herbert, first earl of Pembroke of the second creation, whom he married about 1476, he left four sons — Henry Algernon (1478-1527), his successor in the earldom; Sir William Percy; Alan; and Josceline, founder of the family of Percy of Beverley — and three daughters: Eleanor, wife of Edward Stafford, duke of Buckingham (beheaded in 1521); Anne, married (1511) to William Fitzalan, earl of Arundel (1483-1544); and Elizabeth, who died young. Source: Tait, James. "Henry Percy, Fourth Earl of Northumberland." The Dictionary of National Biography. Vol XLIV. Sidney Lee, Ed. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895. 408-409. http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/henrypercy4.htm

  
  

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