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  Hundred Years' War: Sir Henry Percy, called Hotspur (1364-1403) [Harry Hotspur; Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part I"]
Hotspur was released on the payment of a heavy ransom, to which Richard II contributed £3000, and in the autumn his term as warden of Carlisle and the West March was extended to five years.
This was late in 1402, and in 1403 Hotspur issued a proclamation in Cheshire stating that Richard II was alive, and summoning the inhabitants to his standard.
Hotspur was killed, the earls of Douglas and Worcester, Sir Richard Venables of Kinderton, and Sir Richard Vernon were captured, and the rebel army dispersed.
www.luminarium.org /encyclopedia/hotspur.htm   (1109 words)

  
 Henry Percy (AKA Harry Hotspur) was born on the 20th of May 1366 at Alnwick Castle
Henry Percy (AKA Harry Hotspur) was born on the 20
Hotspur had already received the cheering news from Alnwick of his fathers advance Meanwhile Douglas waited at Otterbourne for Hotspur’s arrival not knowing that Earl Percy was also on the march with his army.
Hotspur was granted the Wardenship of the Eastern Marches and the Justiciaryship of North Wales while he was also named Governor or Constable of Berwick, Roxburgh, Bamburgh, Chester, Carnarvon and Flint.
www.geocities.com /percyfamilyhistory/hotspur2.html   (5012 words)

  
  Henry Percy
Henry Percy (1342 - 1408), 1st earl of Northumberland, was the son of Henry, 3rd baron Percy, and the father of Henry " Harry Hotspur" Percy.
In 1408 Percy invaded England and was killed at the Battle of Branham Moor[?].
Harry aquired a great reputation as a warrior, fighting against the Scots and the French.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Henry_Percy.html   (824 words)

  
 GradeSaver: Henry IV Part 1 - Study Guide - Full Summary and Analysis
Hotspur, in his defense, says that he previously refused to hand over the prisoners because he was still on the battlefield, and disliked the young man who demanded them in the king's name.
Hotspur is reading a letter telling him that his rebellion against King Henry is too dangerous, and that the author of the letter will therefore not join him.
Hotspur's cousin Vernon arrives with news that the king and young Hal are leading armies against the gathered forces.
www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/henryiv/fullsumm.html   (6142 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Henry IV, Part 1: Act IV, scenes i–ii
Hotspur’s father, Northumberland, is very sick and has decided not to lead his troops to Hotspur—or to send them at all.
Harry warns Falstaff that he must hurry, for Hotspur and the Percy allies are already preparing to fight, and Henry has already made camp at Bridgnorth.
Hotspur even begins to sound a bit absurd, as, in response to the news that his father will not be bringing his troops, he declares that Northumberland’s absence is “[a] perilous gash, a very limb lopped off.
www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/henry4pt1/section10.rhtml   (1252 words)

  
 SOUTH AFRICAN HORSE RACING - SAHorseracing.COM - A leading racing & breeding site
Harry Hotspur’s dam, Saturna was a daughter of Silver Tor who won one of Britain’s premier sprints, the King Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Harry Hotspur was only destined to race once more: in the first month of his 5-year-old career, he scored his biggest win, touching off another Gilbeys winner, Brer Rabbit, whose other victories included the Gr1 Somerset Plate and Woolavngton Cup and lesser features such as the Drill Hall Stakes and Chairmans Stakes.
Considering that Harry Hotspur was very much a specialist producer of sprinters, it is strange to reflect that Agitator was second in the SA Derby (promoted to first) and won or was placed up to 3000m.
www.sahorseracing.com /view.asp?id=30&col=31   (1817 words)

  
 [No title]
Hotspur speaks a basilect of Eurolac, not the acrolect of Eurolac that is steadily increasing in prominence in the Eurasian Union.] MORNING, JANUARY 5th, 2024 Claire Auger wanted to run, far away from the cemetery where Lieutenant Pol Ierulli-Kiris, agent of EUROPA, was being buried.
Hotspur had a knack of convincing people to do things for him on the sly; Castor always thought it was because Harry's Eurolac disoriented people enough to slip in subliminal suggestions.
Hotspur must learn to control his temper when disaster strikes, and Arc comes face to face with Rebus, who enlightens her about a riddle whose answer may mean life or death.
www.eyrie.org /~dvandom/ASH/EUROPA1   (3177 words)

  
 Aisle Say (Boston): Henry IV
Hotspur is the only man whose wife is present and attempts to talk sense to him, (Mortimer's wife can't talk to him all, she speaks only Welsh and he only English.
Parental destruction is Harry Percy's reward for being an exemplary son, and his destruction comes at the hands of a Harry who has established a perspective from which to evaluate his father's words and deeds, and whose loyalty has become a matter of principle, informed rather than blind.
Hotspur expects to win because the king has flunked honor 101, and naturally has got the son a greedy lying hypocrite deserves: "Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse/ Meet, and ne're part till one drop down a corse".
www.stagepage.info /reviews/henry.html   (1627 words)

  
 GradeSaver: Henry IV Part 1 - Study Guide
Vernon further informs Hotspur that Hal was very gracious and that he complimented Hotspur on his previous valor and success.
Hotspur then delivers his speech to the troops as a way of rallying them, but comments that he is not gifted at making speeches.
Prince Harry is given the right to deal with Douglas as he sees fit, at which point he pardons Douglas and gives him to his brother John of Lancaster's keeping.
www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/henryiv/section7.html   (1654 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Henry IV, Part 1: Act III, scene ii
For, although Harry has the claim of blood inheritance, Hotspur is the one who demonstrates his courage in warfare, winning honor in his battles and daring to take on even the king himself.
Harry’s belief that Hotspur is merely his “factor,” or stand-in, and that Hotspur’s defeat will prove Harry’s nobility contributes to the sense that a final confrontation between the two young Harrys is inevitable (III.ii.
Harry and Hotspur form a symmetrical pair, as do Falstaff and Henry—both are father figures to Harry, but Harry can accept them only alternatingly, one at a time.
www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/henry4pt1/section8.rhtml   (1099 words)

  
 HONORS LITERATURE: THE GOOD LIFE II
Also, Hotspur (Harry Percy, Mortimer’s brother-in-law), son of Northumberland, a key noble who helped depose Richard and enthrone Henry, has just defeated the Scots, but he is refusing to turn over his prisoners.
Hotspur reads a letter from a noble who is backing out from the rebellion, then takes leave of his wife, Kate.
Hotspur complains that his share is less than Glendower’s, and they almost come to blows, but Glendower backs down, at which point Hotspur gives up his claim.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~sschuman/102sq1h4.html   (999 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Harry Potter: A Wizard's Return
Harry, a Harry Hotspur for the younger set, is decidedly not normal.
Harry's house at Hogwarts is Griffindor, Goyle's is Slytherin.
Harry, who is a year older in each volume, will be 17 when the projected series is completed.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A43112-2000Jul3?language=printer   (726 words)

  
 Deconstructing Rowling
Harry's father James was nicknamed "prongs," for his ability to turn himself into a stag.
In Prisoner of Azkeban, when Harry conjures a magical patronus to drive away the soul-stealing Dementors (Latin for mind-removers), the patronus appears as a stag, shining "as bright as a unicorn." The stag is also a medieval symbol of Jesus.
Harry Potter fans are used to scouring the Internet for the morsels of hints Rowling has offered about the rest of the series.
davekopel.org /NRO/2003/Deconstructing-Rowling.htm   (1222 words)

  
 Henry Percy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Henry Percy, also called Harry Hotspur (May 20, 1364/1366 – July 21, 1403) was the eldest son of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, 4th Lord Percy of Alnwick.
Harry acquired a great reputation as a warrior, fighting against the Scots and the French.
Before they could join forces, Hotspur was defeated and killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury when he raised his visor to get some air (as he was wearing plate armour which restricted air circulation) and was immediately hit in the mouth with an arrow and killed instantly.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Hotspur   (493 words)

  
 Trollope -The Books
Sir Harry plans to leave his fortune and ancestral home to his daughter Emily, with the expressed hope that any suitable husband might be persuaded to adopt the family name.
Harry Gilmore, sensing that he may have another chance, renews his suit in earnest, and eventually persuades an indifferent Mary to accept his hand, despite her withering assertion that, were her cousin to ask for her hand again, she would drop the besotted Harry without a moment's thought.
Harry fails to help the police with their inquiries: a situation Augustus exploits, making it known that Harry has lied, and was the last person to see Mountjoy before he vanished.
www.trollopesociety.org /drama.htm   (4318 words)

  
 BBC - Legacies - Architectural Heritage - England - Tyne - Harry Hotspur - Home grown hero of Alnwick - Article Page 3
Hotspur, along with his father, the Earl of Northumberland, had more than a hand in disposing of King Richard II and bringing Henry the IV to the throne.
Harry Hotspur lived and died a hero, and, like all good heroes, he gave his life and name to British history.
Harry Hotspur has even given his name to the world famous Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, due to the fact the Percy family owned a family seat on Tottenham Marshes.
www.bbc.co.uk /legacies/heritage/england/tyne/article_3.shtml   (269 words)

  
 Theile: Henry 4
Hotspur displaces Harry in his father’s eyes, for instance, and Harry must win back the place he has lost (by killing Hotspur).
Pay particular attention to: Hotspur's reactions in 1.3, and throughout Act 4; to Falstaff's speeches on honor in Act 5; and to Prince Hal's discussion of the drawers in 2.4 and his promises to King Henry in 3.2.
Hotspur and Falstaff represent opposite extremes in the code and conduct of life.
www.wsu.edu /~vtheile/jqh4.html   (2600 words)

  
 Harry Potter and the Magical Kingdom
According to The Harry Potter Lexicon (www.hp-lexicon.org), Rowling, who was living in Manchester when she wrote the scene, said that she actually was picturing Euston Station when she described Platform 9¾, hence the bit of confusion.
Bede also wrote a biography of St. Cuthbert, a monk from Lindesfarne Island, and Durham’s patron saint, whose remains were reported to be uncorrupted when his casket was opened in 1104, before being reburied behind the high altar at the south end of the cathedral –with the head of the martyred King, St. Oswald.
Harry Potter’s Hogwarts is magical site, but the actual sites used in filming are filled with England’s past and a curious linkage of one to the next.
www.travellady.com /Issues/May04/698HarryPotter.htm   (2043 words)

  
 Dave Kopel on Harry Potter on National Review Online
In Prisoner of Azkeban, when Harry conjures a magical patronus to drive away the soul-stealing Dementors (Latin for mind-removers), the patronus appears as a stag, shining "as bright as a unicorn." The stag is also a medieval symbol of Jesus.
Harry leaves the temporal world of London by entering Diagon Alley — that is, by moving diagonally, not in the lines of the ordinary material world.
Like King Arthur, Harry was hidden as a baby, raised without knowledge of his true identify, watched over from afar by a great wizard, and proves that he is the true heir by pulling out a sword — in Harry's case, by pulling Godric Gryffindor's sword from Godric Gryffindor's sorting ("sword-in") hat.
www.nationalreview.com /kopel/kopel062003.asp   (1184 words)

  
 BBC - Shropshire - History - Battle of Shrewsbury - Who was who - Hotspur
Harry Hotspur was straight out of this mould - he earned his nickname through his bravery in battle, but mostly because of his tendency to act first and think about it later - if at all.
Hotspur was immortalised by Shakespeare in Henry IV Part One as a charismatic warrior and the hero of the piece - as well as a young contemporary of the 15 year-old Prince Harry.
Hotspur and his Scottish earls marched south with their armies to meet with Glyndwr to form an alliance that would topple Henry IV from the throne.
www.bbc.co.uk /shropshire/history/2003/02/battle_of_shrewsbury/who_was_who.shtml   (917 words)

  
 King Henry the Fourth Summary guide at Absolute Shakespeare
Hotspur and his father offer the prisoners gladly, arguing their refusal to do so was all a misunderstanding.
Hotspur reads a letter confirming that a nobleman they have approached will not join their cause against King Henry IV angering Hotspur.
Hotspur's wife Kate is not so blindly loving of her husband as is Mortimer's wife, Lady Mortimer...
absoluteshakespeare.com /guides/summaries/king_henry_iv/king_henry_iv_summary.htm   (1684 words)

  
 frequently asked questions
The club was formed by a group of cricketers in 1882 as Hotspur FC and the prefix Tottenham was adopted three years later to avoid confusion with a team called London Hotspur.
The name Hotspur was chosen because of the fiery reputation of Shakespeare's Harry Hotspur, a character in his play "Henry IV Part 1".
Harry was based on a 14th century ancestor called Sir Henry Percy of the aristocratic Northumberland family who owned large tracts of land in the Tottenham area in the 1880s and after whom the nearby Northumberland Avenue is named.
www.mehstg.com /faqs.htm   (1560 words)

  
 Chickspeare presents HENRY IV - who's who in the play
HOTSPUR - The real name of the son and heir of the Earl of Northumberland is Henry Percy, but he's earned the name Hotspur because of his fierceness in battle and his hastiness of action.
Hotspur is a member of the powerful Percy family of the north, a family that brought King Henry IV to power but now feels that the king has forgotten his debt to them.
Hotspur's uncle is the Earl of Worcester; he is married to Lady Percy, a.k.a.
www.chickspeare.org /webofyore/whois01.html   (1162 words)

  
 Welcome to the Hotspur School of Defense!
Lord Henry "Harry" Percy was born on the May 20th, 1366 at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, on the battle-ravaged Anglo-Scottish border.
As part of a series of passages of arms and skirmishes beneath the city walls, the two finally met in single combat"… mounted on two greete coursers, with sharpe grounde speares at the utterance." Douglas the veteran unhorsed the younger man, leaving him concussed on the ground, before Percy was hoisted away by his kinsmen.
Hotspur was eventually forced to yield to Lord Montgomery, who had taken over the command from Douglas, who was by this time dead, his body concealed by his men beneath a bush.
www.historicalfencing.org /Hotspur/hotspur.htm   (1728 words)

  
 Guardian | The turbulent history of Harry Hotspur's power-broking descendants   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Percy family, who became earls of Northumberland in the 14th century and dukes in the 18th, arrived in Britain in the wake of William the Conqueror and have been immortalised in Shakespeare.
The first earl, Henry de Percy, who had distinguished himself in fighting against the French, was granted the title at the coronation of Richard II in 1377.
Both Harry Hotspur and his father were subsequently killed in battle.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4720580-103690,00.html   (447 words)

  
 Drama: Henry IV, Part 1
Of prisoners, Hotspur took Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol, Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith: And is not this an honourable spoil?
HOTSPUR All studies here I solemnly defy, Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke: And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales, But that I think his father loves him not And would be glad he met with some mischance, I would have him poison'd with a pot of ale.
Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied: for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
drama.eserver.org /plays/renaissance/shakespeare/histories/henry-iv-1.txt   (13048 words)

  
 Chris Lauzen State Senator
The display of executive leadership in the plays divides with naturally pleasing symmetry...on the battlefield, virtues are fortitude and temperance, while in the king's court, competence is shown by justice and wisdom.
Both young lords are surpassingly courageous leaders in the face of danger as I imagine Oberweis and Brady are; however, the essential difference between Hotspur and Prince Hal is that Hotspur is brave without temperance while Prince Harry exhibits the virtue of decorum, an appreciation of what is fit and appropriate.
In contrast to Hotspur's horse that bears him "like a thunderbolt" to his death suggesting an unbridled and irrational energy that must at last destroy itself, Harry's "noble horsemanship" which bridles even a "fiery Pegasus" allows the Prince to "turn and wind", impressive dressage cavalry skills of control and maneuver.
www.lauzen.com /mediacenter/view_voice.cfm?id=137   (800 words)

  
 The story of a 'Bloody Field by Shrewsbury': The 600th anniv. of the Battle Of Shewsbury
This battle was between the Lancastrian Henry IV and rebels led by Henry Percy, who is perhaps better known as Harry Hotspur.
Hotspur was put in charge of north Wales and Cheshire, although by 1402 he'd had enough and gone back home.
Hotspur was related by marriage to the Mortimers, who arguably had a better claim to the throne than Henry.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/867040/posts   (1011 words)

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