Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland
Henry Algernon Percy | |
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Percy | |
Spouse(s) | Catherine Spencer |
Issue | Margaret Percy, Countess of Cumberland Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland Sir Thomas Percy Ingleram Percy William Percy |
Father | Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland |
Mother | Maud Herbert |
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Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland,
Origins
Percy was son of
Career
Henry Algernon Percy was well looked after and brought up at the court of King Henry VII, while his sisters' marriages were the object of careful negotiation. He was made KB 21 November 1489, at the time when Prince Arthur was created Prince of Wales.[3][4]
On 28 April 1489 Henry Algernon Percy succeeded his father, Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, as 5th Earl of Northumberland.[4]
Northumberland attended King
How important Northumberland's position was can be seen from The Northumberland Household Book, compiled in 1770 from a manuscript (commenced circa 1512) in possession of the Duke of Northumberland by Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore. His income was about £2,300 per annum, which probably does not include what he received in gifts. On his various retinues of servants and followers he spent no less than £1,500 a year, and as the remainder had to meet all such expenses as his journeys to the court, and as his lifestyle was extraordinarily magnificent, he was soon in debt.[7]
In 1500 Northumberland was at the meeting of King Henry VII and the
Northumberland seems to have irritated King Henry VII just before the latter's death. Without royal licence he had disposed of the
Northumberland was friendly with George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, and they arranged to go together on a pilgrimage in 1516. Shrewsbury had been anxious to marry-off his daughter to a son of Buckingham's, but having disputed about money matters, the parents broke off the match. It was then arranged, most unfortunately as it turned out, that the lady should marry Northumberland's son, Lord Percy. In June 1517 Northumberland met Queen Margaret of Scotland at York to conduct her on her way home, which duty he had undertaken with reluctance, doubtless from want of money, and his wife was excused attendance. In 1518 he was one of those who held lands in Calais. Wolsey in 1519, in a letter to the king, expressed suspicions of his loyalty,[10] but he escaped the fate of the Duke of Buckingham, and was at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, where he was a judge of the lists.[7]
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In 1517 Northumberland had a grant of the
Marriage and children
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Northumberland married Catherine Spencer (d. 1542), a daughter of Sir
- Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (1502–1537), eldest son and heir.
- Sir Arthur Pole, without issue.[14] His progeny included Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland and Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland. His daughter, Joan Percy, married Arthur Harris of Prittlewell, Essex and had issue.[15]
- Sir Ingelram Percy (c. 1506–1538), who was a participant in the Pilgrimage of Grace. He died imprisoned in the Tower of London.[citation needed] He had an illegitimate daughter, Isabel, who married Henry Tempest.[16]
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- Lady Margaret Percy (c. 1500/1502–1540), who married (as his second wife) Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland (1493–1542), KG.[17] Her monumental brass survives in Skipton Parish Church, Cumbria.
- Maud Percy, who may have married William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers, although no such marriage is recorded in the Conyers pedigree).[3]
Death and burial
He died at Wressell Castle in East Yorkshire on 19 May 1527, and was buried at Beverley Minster in the Percy Chapel, where there was a splendid tomb monument next to that of his father the 4th Earl who died in 1489. The chapel was erected at about the time of his father's death. In the north window there was a stained glass depiction of the 4th Earl with his wife, Maud Herbert (also buried at Beverley,) and eight children. This was drawn by Sir William Dugdale for his 'Book of Monuments' in 1640-1641 and the drawing, with others of Beverley, is preserved in the British Library (MS Lansdowne 896, ff35-39.) The 5th Earl's monument was drawn for the Wriothesley Heraldic Collections, 'Collections Relating to Funerals', which are also preserved in the British Library, London. [Drawing of the tomb of Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland and his wife Catherine (Spencer) Image: Add. MS. 45131, f.89v] [This drawing is illustrated in 'Of a Fair Uniforme Making, the Building History of Beverley Minster 1188-1736'. page 242, by J. Phillips,
Assessment
Northumberland displayed magnificence in his tastes, and being one of the richest magnates of his day,[3] kept a very large household establishment, and was fond of building. Leland praised the devices for the library at Wressell, presumably arranged by him.[18] He encouraged the poet John Skelton, who wrote the elegy on his father.[19] A manuscript formerly in his possession (British Museum Reg. Bib. 18 D ii.) consists of poems, chiefly by Lydgate.[13]
Notes
- ^ Archbold 1895.
- ^ This article uses the Julian calendar with the start of the year as 1 January (see Old Style and New Style dates)
- ^ a b c Hoyle 2004.
- ^ a b Archbold 1895, p. 414.
- ^ Archbold 1895, p. 414 cites Letters, &c., of Richard III and Henry VII, i. 390, &c.
- ^ Archbold 1895, pp. 414, 415.
- ^ a b c d e Archbold 1895, p. 415.
- ^ Archbold states that an account of this progress was written by the Somerset Herald and printed in Leland's Collectanea, vol. iv (Archbold 1895, p. 415).
- ^ Musson, Jeremy (2009) Up and Down Stairs. London: John Murray; pp. 34-39
- ^ Archbold 1895, p. 415 cites Letters and Papers Henry VIII, III. i. 1, cf. 1266 and 1293.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.438, Viscount Falkland; The arms of Spencer of Spencer Combe are however given differently by William Pole, Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon (London, 1791), p. 502 as Argent, on a bend sable two pairs of keys or
- ^ Tristram Risdon, Survey of Devon (London, 1811), p. 100 [1]
- ^ a b Archbold 1895, p. 416.
- ^ Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland, 1999), volume 1, page 16.
- ^ Bernard Burke Genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, vol. 2 (Harrison, 1871), p. 1153.
- ^ Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, vol. 2 (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A., 2003), p. 2386.
- ^ Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, vol. 1 (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A., 2003), p. 1064.
- ^ Archbold 1895, p. 415 cites cf. Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, III. ii. 3475, iv. ii. 3134, 3379.
- ^ Archbold 1895, p. 416 cites Skelton, Works, ed. Dyce, i. 12, 36, ii. 91, 358.
References
- Hoyle, R. W. (2004). "Percy, Henry Algernon, fifth earl of Northumberland (1478–1527)". .
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Archbold, William Arthur Jobson (1895). "Percy, Henry Algernon (1478-1527)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 414–416. Endnotes for the DNB article are:
- De Fonhlanque's Annals of the House of Percy;
- Introduction to Percy's edition of the Northumberland Household Book
- Letters and Papers, Henry VIII
- State Papers, Henry VIII, i. 146, iv. 45
- Chron. of Calais (Camden Society)
- Hall's Chronicle, ed. 1809, p. 498
- Drake's Eboracum, App. xviii. &c.
- Leland's Itinerary, i. 47, 54, vii. 50,51
- Percy's Reliques, ed. Wheatley, i. 124;
- Casley's Cat. of Royal MSS. p. 283
- Doyle's Official Baronage, ii. 653
- Collins's Peerage, ed. Brydges, ii. 304, &c.