Elizabeth Mortimer
Elizabeth Mortimer | |
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| Lady Percy Baroness Camoys | |
Philippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster |
Elizabeth Mortimer, Lady Percy and Baroness Camoys (12 February 1371 – 20 April 1417), was a medieval English noblewoman, the granddaughter of
Family, marriages, and issue
Elizabeth Mortimer was born at
It is unknown when Elizabeth was married to her first husband, Henry Percy, nicknamed 'Hotspur' (1364–1403), eldest son of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, who was already acquiring a reputation as a great soldier and warrior and responsible administrator in the early 1390s, when they were first together. They had two children:
- Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (3 February 1393 – 22 May 1455), who married Eleanor Neville, by whom he had issue. He was slain at the First Battle of St Albans.[2]
- John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford, slain at the Siege of Meaux on 13 March 1422, by whom she had issue, and secondly Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (d. 3 November 1484), by whom she had a son, Sir John Neville.[3]
On 21 July 1403, Elizabeth's husband was slain at the Battle of Shrewsbury[4] while commanding a rebel army that fought against the superior forces of King Henry IV. He was buried in Whitchurch, Shropshire; however, when rumours circulated that he was still alive, 'Henry IV had the corpse exhumed and displayed it, propped upright between two millstones, in the market place at Shrewsbury'.[5] This done, the king dispatched Percy's head to York, where it was impaled on one of the city's gates; his four-quarters were first sent to London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Bristol, and Chester before they were finally delivered to Elizabeth. She had him buried in York Minster in November of that year.[6] In January 1404, Percy was posthumously declared a traitor and his lands were forfeited to the Crown.[citation needed] The king ordered Elizabeth herself arrested on 8 October 1403.[4]
Sometime after 3 June 1406, Elizabeth Mortimer was married to her second husband,
Death
Elizabeth died on 20 April 1417 at the age of 46 years. She was buried in
In fiction
Lady Elizabeth is represented as Kate, Lady Percy, in William Shakespeare's plays Henry IV, Part 1[10] and Henry IV, Part 2. She is also the main character in Anne O’Brien's novel Queen of the North published in 2018.
Ancestry
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Notes
- ^ a b c d e Cokayne 1932, p. 448; Richardson II 2011, pp. 190–1; Richardson III 2011, pp. 193–5, 307, 335, 341; Holmes 2004; Tout 2004.
- ^ Richardson III 2011, pp. 343–4.
- ^ Richardson I 2011, p. 507; Richardson III 2011, p. 250.
- ^ a b Richardson III 2011, p. 341.
- ^ Walker 2004.
- ^ Cokayne 1936, p. 714.
- ^ Cokayne 1912, p. 508; Richardson I 2011, pp. 398–9.
- ^ Leland 2004.
- ^ Richardson III 2011, p. 342.
- ^ "Lady Kate Percy character analysis". Shmoop.
References
- Cokayne, George Edward (1912). The Complete Peerage, edited by H.A. Doubleday. Vol. II. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 506–10.
- Cokayne, George Edward (1932). The Complete Peerage, edited by H.A. Doubleday. Vol. VIII. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 445–53.
- Cokayne, George Edward (1936). The Complete Peerage, edited by H.A. Doubleday. Vol. IX. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 713–14.
- Davies, R.R. (2004). "Mortimer, Roger (VII), fourth earl of March and sixth earl of Ulster (1374–1398)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19356. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Holmes, George (2004). "Mortimer, Edmund (III), third earl of March and earl of Ulster (1352–1381)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19342. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Leland, John L. (2004). "Camoys, Thomas, Baron Camoys (c.1350-1420/21)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4461. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 978-1449966379.)
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{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (Subscription or UK public library membership - Walker, Simon (2004). "Percy, Sir Henry (1364–1403)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21931. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)