Henry (Percy) de Percy (abt. 1320 - abt. 1368)

Born about 1320 in Seamer, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Plantagenet) de Percy — married about 4 Sep 1334 in Tutbury Castle, Tutbury, Staffordshire, England

Descendants

Died about 18 May 1368 at about age 48 in Warkworth, Northumberland, England

Biography

Henry Percy the Short^[1] (d. 18 May^[1] or 16 June Warkworth^[2] or 17 Jun 1368;^[3] bur. Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland).

Marriage

m.1 (abt 04 Sep 1334 Tutbury Castle) Mary (Plantagenet) of Lancaster (p. Henry of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth).^[4] Issue:

• Sir Henry, heir, 4th Baron Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland^[3]

m.1 Margaret Nevill (Father: Ralph, Lord Nevill of Raby)^[3]

m.2 Maud (Bros: Anthony, Lord Lucy)^[3]

• Sir Thomas, Earl of Worcester^[3]

m.2 Joan de Orreby (Father: Baron John de Orbey of Lincolnshire). Issue: 1^[3]

• Mary m. John de Ros, 5th Baron Ros of Hamlake (d.s.p 1395)^[3]

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Military

Battle of Cressy^[3]

Research Notes

Alexander de Percy

Nichols' The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester (Vol. IV Part I, 1810) shows Henry de Percy and Mary Plantagenet as parents of Alexander de Percy who was father of Eleanor Clervaux.^[5] No source is given.

The 1563 and 1564 Visitation of Yorkshire does not list Alexander as a son among the children of Henry de Percy and Mary Plantagenet, and does not name the parents of this Alexander de Percy.^[6] Douglas Richardson does not include Alexander among the children of Henry de Percy and Mary Plantagenet.^[7][8] Nor do:

• Henry de Percy's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (it just names Thomas and another Henry as children).^[9]
• the entry for Henry de Percy's father in the original Dictionary of National Biography, which names three children for Henry - the other Henry, Thomas and (by his second marriage) Mary^[10]
• Alison Weir in her book Britain's Royal Families^[11]
• Marlyn Lewis (admittedly not reliable)^[12]
• The Peerage.com (again, not reliable)^[13]
• Henry de Percy's Wikipedia entry^[14]

In these circumstances the parentage suggested by Nichols for Alexander de Percy must be regarded as dubious unless and until better evidence emerges.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Rose, 2002
2. ↑ age 30 in 1352, 40+ in 1365 (Lewis, n.d.); d. possibly plague. bur. Alnwick, NBL^{[citation needed]}
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7} Burke, 1852
4. ↑ Mary was 14 when she got married (Burke, 1852)
5. ↑ John Nichols, The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester, Volume 4, Part 1, John Nichols (London), 1810, p. 174, Hathi Trust
6. ↑ William Flower. The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564, Harleian Society, 1881, pp. 242, Percy pedigree, Internet Archive, and 58, Clervaux pedigree, Internet Archive
7. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. IV, pp. 353-355, PERCY 11
8. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. III, pp. 337-339, partially viewable on Google Books
9. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry by J M W Bean for 'Percy, Henry, third Lord Percy', print and online 2004
10. ↑ Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol. 44, pp. 393-395, entry for 'PERCY, HENRY, second Baron Percy of Alnwick', Wikisource
11. ↑ Alison Weir. Britain's Royal Families, new Pimlico edition, Vintage Books, 2008, p. 80
12. ↑ Marlyn Lewis. 'Our Royal, Titled, Noble and Commoner Ancestors', entry for Sir Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy of Alnwick
13. ↑ The Peerage.com, entry for Henry de Percy, 3rd Lord Percy
14. ↑ Wikipedia: Henry Percy, 3rd Baron Percy

• Royal Ancestry by D. Richardson Vol. III p. 486
• Royal Ancestry 2013 Vol. IV p. 351-353
• Burke, J.B. (1852). "Henry de Percy, 3rd Lord Percy of Alnwick." A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, (14th ed, pp.746). London: Colburn & Co. Google Books.
• Brydges, E. (1812). "Percy, Duke of Northumberland." Collins's Peerage of England Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical, (Vol. II, pp.217-366). London: F.C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son. Print.
• Lewis, M., (n.d.) "Sir Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy of Alnwick, Sheriff of Roxburghshire." our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com.
• "Patent roll 2 Edward III part 1." sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu. PDF. (see 01 Mar 1328).
• Richardson, D. (2005). Magna Carta Ancestry, (pp. 652-8).
• Rose, A. (2002). Kings in the North: The House of Percy in British History, (pp.142). archive.org.

See also:

• Clifford Pedigree: Descent of the Barony of Clifford