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	Earls of Westmorland - LoveToKnow 1911
		The earl died on the 21st of October 1425, and a fine alabaster tomb was erected to his memory in Staindrop church close by Raby Castle.
		Charles, 6th earl (1543-1601), eldest son of the 5th earl by his first wife Jane, daughter of Thomas Manners, ist earl of Rutland, was brought up a Roman Catholic, and was further attached to the Catholic party by his marriage with Jane, daughter of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey.
		He was a member of the council of the north in 1569 when he joined Thomas Percy, 7th earl of Northumberland, and his uncle Christopher Neville, in the Catholic rising of the north, which had as its object the liberation of Mary, queen of Scots.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Earls_of_Westmorland (1310 words)

	Thomas PERCY (7° E. Northumberland)
		Henry Algernon Percy, the fifth Earl of Northumberland, maintained at his castles of Leconfield and Wressil a splendour and hospitality scarcely inferior to that of the royal court.
		His second son, Sir Thomas Percy, was beheaded at Tyburn, 2 Jun, 1537, for his participation in the Pilgrimage of Grace, and subsequently, in consequence of this attainder, part of the estates were conferred upon John Dudley, who was created Duke of Northumberland, and succeeded to the castle and estate of Leconfield, in 1551.
		He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Percy, brother of the childless Henry Percy, sixth Earl of Northumberland, and Eleanor, daughter of Sir Guiscard Harbottle.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/ThomasPercy(7ENorthumberland).htm (1215 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Northumberland,
		Created earl of Northumberland by Richard II in 1377, he and his son Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur) were engaged in constant warfare with the Scots.
		Northumberland: Mark Rathbone examines the varied reputation of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.
		Proposals for Parliamentary Constituency boundaries in the county of Northumberland.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Northumberland, (694 words)

	Northumberland, Thomas Percy, 7th earl of - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NORTHUMBERLAND, THOMAS PERCY, 7TH EARL OF [Northumberland, Thomas Percy, 7th earl of] 1528-72, English nobleman.
		He was the nephew and heir of the childless 6th earl but did not succeed on the latter's death (1537) because his father had been attainted for participation in the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536).
		Northumberland was captured by the Scots, ransomed (1572) to the English, and beheaded.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-northmbtp.html (252 words)

	What Happened to the Percys? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All that was left it seemed was one Daughter the Lady Elizabeth Percy, who became the loneliest and richest heiress in the country when her father died while in Italy in 1670 at the age of twenty five.
		The fate of the Seymours, the Percys and the Smithsons was settled in a kaleidoscope of events between 1748 and 1750.
		Northumberland demanded some sort of advancement by way of compensation, and when a Marquessate was suggested, he insisted that he have a Dukedom.
	www.geocities.com /percyfamilyhistory/whathap.html (1469 words)

	THE PERCY’S OF ALNWICK 1309 TO 1670 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry de Percy was keeper of Bamburgh castle in 1330 and overseer of an array in the Northern counties.
		Henry Percy died and was buried at Alnwick in 1353.
		The Earl of Northumberland now ceased to reside in Northumberland, (leaving relatives in Alnwick) and from this time onwards the influence of the family in the north waned until its revival in the eighteenth century.
	www.geocities.com /percyfamilyhistory/thepercy.html (4647 words)

	More info about the poet: Thomas Percy - references bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Earl of Northumberland, martyr, born in 1528; died at York, 22 August, 1572.
		Thomas Percy, clergyman, scholar, poet, was born on 24 April 1729, the son of Arthur Lowe...
		Thomas Percy (1729-1811) served as the parson of Easton Maudit,...
	www.poemhunter.com /thomas-percy/resources/poet-6931/page-1 (696 words)

	Thomas Percy — FactMonster.com
		Northumberland, Thomas Percy, 7th earl of - Northumberland, Thomas Percy, 7th earl of, 1528–72, English nobleman.
		Worcester, Thomas Percy, earl of - Worcester, Thomas Percy, earl of, c.1344–1403, English nobleman; brother of Henry Percy, 1st...
		Northumberland, Henry Percy, 1st earl of - Northumberland, Henry Percy, 1st earl of, 1342–1408, English nobleman.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0838266.html (172 words)

	Henry PERCY (8° E. Northumberland)
		Younger son of Sir Thomas Percy, brother of the childless Henry Percy, sixth Earl of Northumberland, by his wife Eleanor, daughter of Sir Guiscard Harbottle.
		The Queen wrote him that she approved of his constancy and forwardness, "although the same be against your brother of Northumberland"; and assured him, that she "will have regard to have the continuance of such a house, in the parson and blood of so faithfull a servant, as we trust to find you".
		The 7th Earl was executed on 22 Aug 1572 and immediately the brother, Henry Percy, was recognised as the next Earl.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/HenryPercy(8ENorthumberland).htm (777 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot
		Thomas Percy was a second cousin of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland and worked for him collecting rents from the Earl's northern estates.
		Thomas Winter was born in Worcestershire; his maternal uncle (Francis Ingleby) had been executed as a seminary priest in 1586.
		Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland was found guilty of complicity in the Plot, fined a massive £30,000 and imprisoned until 1621.
	history.wisc.edu /sommerville/123/Gunpowder.htm (1229 words)

	Loch Leven - LoveToKnow 1911
		It became the prison at various periods of Robert II.; of Alexander Stuart, earl of Buchan, "the Wolf of Badenoch"; Archibald, earl of Douglas (1429); Patrick Graham, archbishop of St Andrews (who died, still in bondage, on St Serf's Island in 1478), and of Mary, queen of Scots.
		Support of Mary's cause had involved Thomas Percy, 7th earl of Northumberland (b.
		He too was lodged in the castle in 1569, and after three years' imprisonment was handed over to the English, by whom he was beheaded at York in 1572.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Loch_Leven (558 words)

	EARLS OF WESTMORLAND - Online Information article about EARLS OF WESTMORLAND
		Clifford, daughter of Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur), thus forming further bonds with the Percies.
		Burghersh and earl of Westmorland in 1624, and became Lord le Despenser on his mother's death in 1626.
		John Fane, 11th or 17th earl (1784-1859), only son of John, loth earl, was known as Lord Burghersh until he succeeded to the earldom in 1841.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /WAT_WIL/WESTMORLAND_EARLS_OF.html (1753 words)

	Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blessed Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (1528-22 August 1572) was the nephew of Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, Anne Boleyn's lover before King Henry VIII.
		He was granted the title of Earl of Northumberland in 1557.
		This biography of an earl in the peerage of England is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Percy,_7th_Earl_of_Northumberland (214 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot Society
		The problems and obstacles were numerous: Mary's abdication, adultery, complicity in murder, and her current marriage to the earl of Bothwell; the attitude of the Scots to her restoration; and Cecil's implacable hostility.
		They looked to Norfolk for their lead and when he was placed under virtual house arrest Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland and Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland led an uprising to restore the Roman religion and free both Mary, Queen of Scots and Norfolk.
		Percy and Dacre were crushed and the rebellion was ended.
	www.gunpowder-plot.org /northern.asp (802 words)

	NICHOLSON (Percy)
		Elizabeth Percy, daughter of the Earl of Northumberland, was first married to Richard Woodruffe of Wooley, Yorkshire.
		Thomas Percy (1528-72) was the seventh earl of Northumberland.
		He was entrusted with protection of the Scottish borders (Northumberland County is the northernmost of the English counties, it is separated from Scotland by the Cheviot Hills and the Tweed river, and borders on the North Sea.) but lost his position after the accession of Protestant Queen Elizabeth.
	www.cstone.net /~baustin/FamilyHistory/Blevins/Nicholson.html (1075 words)

	Elizabeth I of England - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In 1569, Elizabeth faced a major uprising, known as the Northern Rebellion, instigated by Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland and Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland.
		The chief executor of Crown authority in the North of Ireland, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, was declared a traitor in 1595.
		In 1599, one of the leading members of the navy, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and given command of the largest army ever sent to Ireland, in an attempt to defeat the rebels.
	arikah.com /encyclopedia/Elizabeth_I_of_England (6957 words)

	Alnwick Castle
		An army 26,000 men led by the Earl of Surrey joined by his son Thomas and his reinforcements left from Alnwick Castle to fight the Scottish King and won the Battle of Flodden on September 9, 1513, although Henry was in France, his brothers, William and Lionel fought in the battle.
		Thomas was involved in a plot to place Mary Queen of Scots on the throne.
		She then was married to Thomas Thynne of Longleat, "a man of the worst character, from whom she fled to Holland, shortly after the marriage." Thomas was murdered by Count Konigsmark a Swede, in 1681.
	www.hauntedcastlesandhotels.com /England/Alnwick.htm (6535 words)

	1572 \| Political Events: The People's Chronology
		Thomas Howard, 36, 4th duke of Norfolk, is beheaded at York August 22 for having conspired with John Leslie, Roberto Ridolfi, and the Spanish to invade England and free Mary, Queen of Scots.
		Also beheaded is Thomas Percy, 44, 7th earl of Northumberland.
		France's 14-year-old Princess Margot (Marguerite) is married August 18 to the Huguenot leader Henri de Navarre in a political match arranged by her mother, Catherine de' Medici, supposedly with the idea of healing the nation's Catholic-Huguenot animosities.
	history.enotes.com /peoples-chronology/year-1572 (514 words)

	Excursiones
		Historians suppose this "late earl" to be Henry Percy, 8th earl of Northumberland, who in June 1585 was found dead in the Tower, where he had been imprisoned upon suspicion of complicity in a Catholic plot, the Throckmorton conspiracy.
		The creation of Earl of Northumberland on 1 May 1557 was "with remainder, failing heirs male of his body, to his brother, Henry Percy." The 7th Earl was executed on 22 August 1572 and immediately the brother, Henry Percy, was recognised as the next Earl.
		Apart from their eldest son, Thomas, who died as a baby in 1560, there were four daughters (Elizabeth, Mary, Lucy, Jane) born before the 1569 rebellion of the earl, and a sixth child born in Aberdeen on 11 June 1570.
	www.kareldegrote.nl /Excursiones.htm (10163 words)

	Percy page
		Thomas Percy (1729-1811), English poet, Bishop of Dromore, editor of the Tatler, the Guardian, and the Spectator
		The House of Percy (also Perci), who were the most powerful noble family in Northern England for much of the Middle Ages, many of whom have held the titles of Earl of Northumberland or Duke of Northumberland to this day.
		Hugh Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1714-1786) (became Duke of Northumberland in 1766)
	www.potpurpedia.com /P/Percy.php (589 words)

	percy02
		Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Marshal and Constable of England (b 1342, d 29.02.1408)
		(27.03.1679) Henry Cavendish, Earl of Ogle (heir of Duke of Newcastle, dsp 01.11.1680)
		Her husband Sir Hugh Smithson assumed the name and arms of Percy and was created 1st Duke of Northumberland.
	www.stirnet.com /html/genie/british/pp/percy02.htm (677 words)

	Ghosts of York: The Headless Earl
		Thomas Percy, the 7th Earl of Northumberland, was one of the most powerful men in 16th century England.
		Betrayed and captured, Northumberland was eventually dragged in chains back to York to be executed for treason.
		Thomas was beheaded on 22nd August 1572 and his head stuck on a large spike on Micklegate Bar as a warning to would be traitors.
	www.britannia.com /history/legend/yorkghosts/yorkgt04.html (180 words)

	Ghost stories in Great Britain
		Less fortunate was Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, who made the catastrophic mistake of getting on the wrong side of Queen Elizabeth I. He compounded the error by being on good terms with Mary Queen of Scots the chief rival for Elizabeth's throne.
		This area is where the Earl of Stafford was engaged in an affair of honour one misty dawn on the riverside.
		Murder, indeed, was done that day for the Earl was out of his league and in seconds his opponent's sword had pierced his chest slicing through a main artery.
	html.rincondelvago.com /ghost-stories-in-great-britain.html (7802 words)

	Percy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hugh Earl Percy, (1742–1817), Duke of Northumberland, Amerikanischer Revolutionskrieg
		Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421–1461) (forfeit 1461)
		Hugh Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1714–1786) (became Duke of Northumberland in 1766)
	www.tocatch.info /de/Percy.htm (234 words)

	Haunted York. The City of 140 known ghosts.
		One of the ghosts associated with Micklegate Bar is the young Sarah Brocklebank, daughter of Thomas, a gate keeper of Micklegate Bar.
		Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, who made the catastrophic mistake of getting on the wrong side of Queen Elizabeth I. He compounded the error by being on good terms with Mary Queen of Scots the chief rival for Elizabeth's throne.
		On 22nd August 1572, the Earl was marched to Parliament Street and beheaded in full view of the citizens ot York.
	members.fortunecity.com /thistledown98/yorkghosts3.html (485 words)

	thePeerage.com - Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland and others
		She married Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland, son of George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland and Louisa Harcourt Wortley, on 26 May 1845.
		She married Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, son of Henry de Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland and Lady Eleanor de Neville, circa 1446.
		She married Sir Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, son of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Eleanor de Poynings, after 1475.
	www.thepeerage.com /p1045.htm (990 words)

	Elizabeth I of England - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		Elizabeth had suggested that if she married the Protestant Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, then Elizabeth would "proceed to the inquisition of her right and title to be our next cousin and heir." Mary Stuart refused, and in 1565 married a Catholic, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
		Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone had proclaimed himself King, and was declared a traitor in 1595.
		One of the leading members of the navy, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and put in charge of the attempt to crush the Irish rebellion in 1599.
	www.egnu.org /thelemapedia/index.php/Queen_Elizabeth_the_First (3985 words)

	Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles Neville was born 1543 and died 1601.
		A Roman Catholic by birth and connected with the powerful Howard family by marriage, he and Simon Digby of Bedale joined the Northern rebellion (1569) led by Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland against Queen Elizabeth I.
		The rebels captured Durham and held a Catholic mass.
	advantacell.com /wiki/Charles_Neville,_6th_Earl_of_Westmorland (109 words)

	Percy
		Percy Baker, the Director of Peoria's Carver Center, spent all day outside the Wal-Mart on University Street.
		University of Florida wide receiver Percy Harvin was selected to the publication's second team with kick returner Brandon James, quarterback Tim Tebow and offensive lineman Ronnie Wilson making it to the honorable mention list.
		GAINESVILLE - Receiver Percy Harvin and safety Tony Joiner did not practice for Florida on Thursday because of injuries, but coach Urban Meyer said both are expected to play in the national championship game.
	www.paleorama.com /Disney-P/Percy.php (890 words)

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