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Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland KG (c. 1449 – 28 April 1489) was an English aristocrat during the Wars of the Roses. After losing his title when his father was killed fighting the Yorkists, he later regained his position. He led the rearguard of Richard III's army at the Battle of Bosworth, but failed to commit his troops.
The title was created for the third time in 1766 for Hugh Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (formerly Sir Hugh Smithson, 4th Baronet), who had assumed by Act of Parliament in 1750 for himself and his descendants the surname Percy, due to his having married in 1740 the daughter of Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset (1684–1750), whose ...
1st Duke of Northumberland, 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Baron Warkworth, 1st Baron Lovaine, 4th Baronet Smithson: Elizabeth Seymour 1716–1776 2nd Baroness Percy suo jure: Earl of Beverley, 1790: Hugh Percy 1742–1817 2nd Duke of Northumberland, 3rd Earl of Northumberland and Baron Warkworth, 3rd Baron Percy: Algernon Percy 1750–1830
The title of Earl of Northumberland has been created several times in the Peerage of England and of Great Britain, succeeding the title Earl of Northumbria.Its most famous holders are the House of Percy (alias Perci), who were the most powerful noble family in Northern England for much of the Middle Ages.
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
By Northumberland she had two children: Henry Percy, Lord Percy (1668–1669), who predeceased his father and died an infant. Lady Elizabeth Percy (1667–1722), who became following her brother's death the heiress of the great Percy estates and who at the age of 15 married (as her third husband) Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662-1748).
After her first husband's early death without issue, Eleanor married secondly Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland. [1] He was killed at the First Battle of St Albans in 1455. [4] Eleanor and Henry had ten children: John Percy (b. 8 July 1418). Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland [1] (25 July 1421 – 29 March 1461, Battle of Towton). [5]
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, KG (27 April 1564 – 5 November 1632) was an English nobleman. He was a grandee and one of the wealthiest peers of the court of Elizabeth I . Under James I , Northumberland was a long-term prisoner in the Tower of London , due to the suspicion that he was complicit in the Gunpowder Plot .