Whittington families » Dorothy (Lady)(Countess of Northumberland) DEVEREAUX(PERROTT)(PERCY) (1564-1619)

Personal data Dorothy (Lady)(Countess of Northumberland) DEVEREAUX(PERROTT)(PERCY) 

• She was born in the year 1564 in Chartley Hall, Staffordshire, England.
• Profession: Countess of Northumberland.
• She died on August 3, 1619 in Petworth, Sussex, England, she was 55 years old.

  Age:About 54-55

• She is buried in pentworth.
• A child of Walter (Sir)(1St Earl Of Essex)(KG) DEVEREAUX and Lettice KNOLLYS (DEVEREAUX)
• This information was last updated on October 17, 2015.

Household of Dorothy (Lady)(Countess of Northumberland) DEVEREAUX(PERROTT)(PERCY)

(1) She is married to Thomas (Sir)(1St Baronet Of Haroldston) PERROTT.

They got married in the year 1583, she was 19 years old.

Spouse: Lady Dorothy Perrot (born Devereaux), Countess of Northumberland

Child(ren):

1. Penelope PERROTT (NAUNTON)(LOWEY)  1590-1647
2. Henry PERCY  < 1597-± 1659
3. Lady Lucy HAY  1599-1660
4. Henry PERCY  ????-1659
5. Henry PERCY  
6. Rowland PERROTT  

(2) She is married to Henry (Sir)(9Th Earl Of Northumberland)(KG) PERCY.

They got married in the year 1594 at England, she was 30 years old.

Spouse: Lady Dorothy Perrot (born Devereaux), Countess of Northumberland

Child(ren):

1. Dorothy (Lady) PERCY (SYDNEY)  < 1598-1659 
2. Algernon (Sir) (10Th Earl Of Northumberland)(KG)(KB) PERCY  1602-1668 

Notes about Dorothy (Lady)(Countess of Northumberland) DEVEREAUX(PERROTT)(PERCY)

DOROTHY DEVEREUX (1564-August 3, 1619)

cember 25, 1634). After her father died, she became the ward of the earl of Huntingdon. He hoped to marry her to his wife's nephew, Philip Sidney, even offering to provide an additional dowry if the match were made, but Dorothy's stepfather, Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, (Lady Huntingdon's brother and therefore also Sidney's uncle), proposed a match with the king of Scotland instead. In March1583, the Spanish ambassador, Inigo de Mendoza, reported that Leicester had assured James VI that the English crown would be his after Elizabeth Tudor's death if he married Dorothy Devereux and promised to remain a protestant. When the queen heard of the proposed match, however, she forbade it. Leicester then claimed he'd planned to marry Dorothy to a private gentleman. In July, Dorothy took matters into her own hands by eloping with Sir Thomas Perrott (September 1553-February 1594). The groom was imprisoned in the Fleet for a month and Dorothy's dowry of £2000 was not paid. In 1587, when she was at North Hall, country seat of the earl of Warwick, during a royal visit, she was ordered to keep to her room. This decree so angered Dorothy's brother, Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, thathe quarreled with the queen, then sent his servants to pack Dorothy's things and rode off with her. They were ordered to return by a royal messenger. After Perrott's death, Dorothy married Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland (April 1564-November 5, 1632). They were often at odds and separated in October 1599, when Dorothy wrote to her brother that "It was his lordship's pleasure upon no cause given by me to have me keep house by myself." She did so in a house in Putney, leaving two young daughters behind. Several months later, the girls were sent to her, but with no increase in the allowance Northumberland was giving his wife. In December 1601, after her brother's failed rebellion, Dorothy and her husband again began living together, primarily at Syon. She had inherited the lease on it from her first husband and, in 1604, King James granted it to Northumberland. In London, they stayed at Essex House, which belonged to Dorothy's mother, Lettice. Dorothy had six children, Penelope (b.1588) and Robert (1592-d.yng.) Perrott and Dorothy (1598-1659), Lucy (1599-November 5, 1660), Algernon (September 29,1602-October 18, 1668), and Henry (1604-March 11, 1705) Percy. Lita-Rose Betcherman'sbiography of Dorothy's two younger daughters, Court Lady and Country Wife, contains many details of their mother's life, especially after their father's arrest in 1606 for complicity in the GunpowderPlot. According to Betcherman, Dorothy suffered from depression even before Northumberland's imprisonment. On July 16, 1606, she waylaid King James on his way to chapel to plead for her husband's release from the Tower of London. She was not successful in freeing him, but she continued to be welcome at court herself, since Queen Anne was fond of her. In the summer of 1607, the queen visited Dorothy at Syon. Dorothy saw her husband regularly during the first ten years of his imprisonment, stopping her visits only after she learned of his infatuation with the newly incarcerated Countess of Somerset, Frances Howard. She did not, however, pay much attention to his wishes. She resumed marriage negotiations for his eldest daughter after Northumberland had rejected the match. The wedding, in early 1616, was kept secret from the earl until the following year. Dorothy also supported their younger daughter's betrothal to a man Northumberland refused to consider as a son-in-law. He went so far as to force the girl to stay with him in the Tower when she came for a visit. He sent her away again, infuriated to discover that she'd been meeting her future husband in the Tower through the connivance of the Countess of Somerset. Intimidated by her husband's reaction, Dorothy refused to take young Lucy in at Essex House and the girl had to go to her sister instead. That summer (of 1617), mother and daughter were reconciled and stayed at Syon together. In late August, Lucy's sister joined them and gave birth to her first child there in September. On November 6, 1617, Lucy Percy married her choice, Sir James Hay. Dorothy, out of deference to her imprisoned husband, did not attend the wedding. In August 1619, while staying at Syon with Lucy for company, Dorothy died quite suddenly of a fever. In spite of their many differences, Northumberland was deeply upset by the news of his wife's death. He remembered only that she'd never given up her efforts to win his freedom and had to be reminded by friends of how bitterly they had always quarreled. He insisted upon giving her an elaborate funeral. Her body was carried by barge from Syon to Petworth House in Sussex, where she was buried in the family crypt. Portraits: a double portrait of Dorothy and Penelope Devereux painted in 1581 is at Longleat; portrait mislabeled "Lettice Knollys" at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland.

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