Ancestral Trails 2016 » Henry PERCY (1421-1461)

Personal data Henry PERCY 

• He was born on July 25, 1421 in Warkworth Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland.

  Attention: Age at marriage (June 25, 1435) below 16 years (13).

• Title: 3rd Earl of Northumberland
• (Event) between 1470 and 1489 in Earl &, Duke of Northumberland.
• He died on March 29, 1461 in Towton, West Riding, Yorkshire, he was 39 years old.

  Killed in the Battle of Towton

• He is buried March 1461 in St Denys, York, Yorkshire.
• A child of HENRY PERCY and ELEANOR NEVILLE

Household of Henry PERCY

He is married to Eleanor POYNINGS.

They got married on June 25, 1435 at Kyme, Lincolnshire, he was 13 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Eleanor PERCY  1454-1479
2. Elizabeth PERCY  1459-> 1512 
3. Margaret PERCY  1447-1487 
4. Anne PERCY  1446-1522 
5. Henry PERCY  1448-1489 

Notes about Henry PERCY

Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, (25 July 1421 - 29 March 1461) was an English magnate.

The Earldom of Northumberland was one of the greatest fifteenth-century landholdings in northern England; Percy also became Lord Poynings on his marriage. This title would bring him into direct conflict with the Poynings family themselves, and indeed, feuds with neighbouring nobles, both lay and ecclesiastical, would be a key occupancy of his youth.

Percy married Eleanor Poynings, who outlived him; together they had four children. He was a leading Lancastrian during the Wars of the Roses, from which he managed to personally benefit, although his father died early in the war. He was not, however, to live to enjoy these gains, being killed at the Battle of Towton in 1461 on the defeated Lancastrian side.

Percy was the son of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, and Lady Eleanor Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and his second wife, Joan Beaufort.

Percy was knighted in 1426 together with Henry VI. He was appointed Warden of the Eastern March on the Scottish border on 1 April 1440, originally for four years, and subsequent extensions in 1444, and 1445, for the next seven years. This came as well with the custody of Berwick Castle and responsibility for its defence He was to hold this post until March 1461. In May 1448, Percy, with his father and Sir Robert Ogle, invaded Scotland in a pre-emptive defence of the border, and burnt Dunbar and Dumfries, for which, in revenge, the Scots attacked his father's castles of Alnwick and Warkworth. King Henry made his way north, and whilst at Durham sent Percy - now Lord Poynings - to raid Dumfrieshire; the sortie - "only to return with some 500 cattle" - of around 5,000 men failed, and he was captured whilst caught in a marsh following his father's defeat at the River Sark on 23 October. Sir Robert Ogle was now outlawed and the king used half of his estates to compensate Poynings for the ransom he had expended arranging his release from captivity. Tensions with Scotland remained, to the extent that Poynings, his father, and other nobles were requested to stay and guard the border rather than attend Parliament, for which they were excused. In summer 1451, with an Anglo-Scottish truce pending, Poynings was commissioned to treat with Scottish embassies. In July 1455, he successfully prevented an assault on Berwick by the Scottish King, James II, and was congratulated by the English King as a result.

At the arrangement of his father and Cardinal Beaufort in 1434, he married on or before 25 June 1435, Eleanor Poynings (c.1422 - 11 February 1484), de jure suo jure Lady Poynings, daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Poynings of Poynings in Sussex, by his second wife, Eleanor Berkeley, daughter of Sir John Berkeley of Beverston Castle in Gloucestershire. She was heir general in 1446 to her grandfather, Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings, to the Lordship of Poynings, with lands across the south of England. He was summoned to Parliament from 14 December 1446 to 26 May 1455, by writs directed Henrico de Percy, chivaler, domino de Ponynges. His wife was a legatee in the 1455 will of her mother, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel (widow of the thirteenth Earl of Arundel). They had one son and three daughters:

Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (c.1449 - 28 April 1489), who married Maud Herbert, daughter of the first Earl of Pembroke.
Margaret Percy (b. c. 1447), who married Sir William Gascoigne
Elizabeth Percy (1460-1512), who married Henry Scrope, 6th Baron Scrope of Bolton.
Anne Percy (1444-1522), who married Sir Thomas Hungerford in 1460.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Percy,_3rd_Earl_of_Northumberland

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