Ingelram Percy (abt. 1506 - 1538)

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Died 1538 at about age 32 in Tower of London, London, England

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Biography

Ingelram was born about 1506. He is the son of Henry Algernon Percy and Catherine Spencer. He passed away in 1538. ^[1]

Illegitimate daughter

He died unmarried, but had an illegitimate daughter, Isabell Percy. She is mentioned in his will dated 6 June 1538, which states:

Item I bequeth to my Doughter twenty pounds the whiche twenty pounds I will that my Lady my Mother shal haue the vse thereof wt the Childe vntill she be of laufull age Item I bequeth to the moder of the said Childe twenty nobles^[2]

His daughter is also mentioned in the will of his mother Katharine, Countess of Northumberland, dated 14 October 1542, which states:

the saide testatrix disposeth that Stephan Temposte of Broughton, esquier, sbulde have the order and governance of the saide Isabell Percie, with all her parte and porcon, to the entent that Henrie Tempeste, sone and here of the saide Steven, shall marie and take to wif the said Isabell, accordinge to the gret confidence and truste that shoe doo putt in the saide Stephane and Anne his wif.^[3]

False claims of descent

On the death of Josceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, in 1670, the earldom became extinct. Shortly after his death, James Percy, a trunkmaker in Dublin, claimed to be the rightful Earl of Northumberland. He made two different claims of descent from the Earls of Northumberland, one of which was that:

his grandfather Henry was the eldest of four children of Sir Ingram or Ingelram Percy, third son of Henry the fifth Earl, and that the said four children were sent out of the north into the south, about the year 1599, in hampers, to old Dame Vaux of Harrowden, in Northamptonshire.^[4]

He failed to provide any proof and his claims were dismissed by the House of Lords. He persisted with his claims for almost 20 years until the House of Lords ordered that he be brought before the four Courts of Westminster wearing a piece of paper on his breast that read; "The false and impudent pretender to the Earldom of Northumberland."^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Allen Minix, Jun 20, 2012
2. ↑ Collectanea topographica et genealogica, volume 6, London, 1840, pages 273-4 (accessed 21 Feb 2020).
3. ↑ Testamenta Eboracensia: A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York, volume 6, 1902, pages 166-8 (accessed 21 Feb 2020).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Collectanea topographica et genealogica, volume 6, London, 1840, pages 266-83 (accessed 21 Feb 2020).

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