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ALGERNON PERCY, tenth Earl of Northumberland (1602-1668), son of Henry, ninth earl of Northumberland, 
was born in London, and baptised 13 Oct. 1602.1 Percy was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, as family papers prove, and not 
at Christ Church, Oxford, as stated by Collins and Doyle.2 His father then sent him to travel abroad, providing him with detailed 
instructions what to observe and how to behave.3 On 4 Nov. 1616 he was created a knight of the Bath.4 In the Parliament 
of 1624 he represented the county of Sussex, and in those called in 1625 and 1626 the city of Chichester. He was summoned to the House of Lords 
as Baron Percy on 28 March 1627, and succeeded his father as tenth Earl of Northumberland on 5 Nov. 1632.
  
Charles I was anxious to secure the support of Northumberland, and conferred upon him, on 16 May 1635, the order 
of the Garter.5 For the next few years he was continually trusted with the highest naval or military posts. On 23 March 1636 he was 
appointed admiral of the fleet raised by means of ship-money in order to assert the sovereignty of the seas. It effected nothing beyond obliging 
a certain number of Dutch fishermen to accept licenses to fish from Northumberland's master. But its ineffectiveness was due rather to the policy 
of Charles than to his admiral's fault.6 Northumberland was full of zeal for the king's service, and presented to him in December 1636 
a statement of the abuses existing in the management of the navy, with proposals for their reform; but, though supported by ample proof of the 
evils alleged, the commissioners of the admiralty took no steps to remedy them. 'This proceeding,' wrote Northumberland to Strafford, 
'hath brought me to a resolution not to trouble myself any more with endeavouring a reformation, unless I be commanded to it.'7 Strafford, 
who had supported Northumberland with all his might, urged him to be patient and constant in his endeavours, and pressed, through Laud, 
for his appointment as one of the commissioners of the admiralty, or as lord high admiral.8 
  
In April 1637 Northumberland was a second time appointed admiral, but again found himself able to achieve nothing. His disgust was very great. 
He wrote to Strafford from his anchorage in the Downs complaining bitterly. 'To ride in this place at anchor a whole summer together without hope 
of action, to see daily disorders in the fleet and not to have means to remedy them, and to be in an employment where a man can neither do service 
to the state, gain honour to himself, nor do courtesies for his friends, is a condition that I think nobody will be ambitious of.9 On 30 
March 1638 Northumberland was raised to the dignity of lord high admiral of England, which was granted him, however, only during pleasure, and not, 
as in the cases of Nottingham and Buckingham, for life.10 It was intended that he should retain his post until the 
Duke of York was of age to succeed him.11
  
The troubles in Scotland brought Northumberland military office also. In July 1638 the king appointed a committee of eight privy councillors for 
Scottish affairs, of which Northumberland was one. The consideration of the discontent of the people and of the king's unpreparedness for war made 
him think it safer for the king to grant the Scots the conditions they asked than rashly to enter into a war. 'God send us a good end of this 
troublesome business,' he wrote to Strafford,' for, to my apprehension, no foreign enemies could threaten so much danger to this kingdom as doth 
now this beggarly nation.'12 On 26 March 1639, when the king prepared to proceed to the north to take command of the army, Northumberland 
was appointed general of all the forces south of the Trent and a member of the council of regency.13 His private letters to his brother-in-law, 
the Earl of Leicester, show that Northumberland was dissatisfied with the king's policy, and had no confidence in 
most of his fellow-ministers. Secretary Coke he held incapable, and endeavoured to get his place for Leicester. Secretary Windebanke he regarded not 
only as incapable, but as treacherous, and was enraged by his interference with the command of the fleet, which allowed Tromp to destroy Oquendo's 
ships in an English harbour. 
  
Northumberland's own views inclined him to an alliance with France rather than Spain, and he was opposed to Hamilton, Cottington, and the Spanish 
faction in the council. Strafford was his friend, but he thought him too much inclined to Spain, and Laud's 
religious policy he disliked. The discontent which existed in England and the emptiness of the king's treasury seemed to him to render the success of 
the war against the Scots almost impossible14 For these reasons Northumberland hailed with joy the summoning of the Short Parliament, and 
regretted the vehemence with which the Commons pressed for the redress of their grievances. 'Had they been well advised,' he wrote to Lord Conway, 
'I am persuaded they might in time have gained their desires.'15 Backed only by Lord Holland, he opposed the dissolution of the parliament 
in the committee of eight, and spoke against Strafford's proposal for a vigorous invasion of Scotland. Vane's notes of his speech are: 'If no more 
money than proposed, how then to make an offensive war? a difficulty whether to do nothing or to let them alone, or go on with a vigorous war.'16 
'What will the world judge of us abroad,'he complained to Leicester, ' to see us enter into such an action as this is, not knowing how to maintain it 
for one month? It grieves my soul to be involved in these counsels, and the sense I have of the miseries that are like to ensue is held by some a 
disaffection in me. . . . The condition that the king is in is extremely unhappy; I could not believe that wise men would ever have brought us into 
such a strait as now we are in without being certain of a remedy.'17
  
As early as the previous December Charles had announced to Northumberland that he meant to make him general of the forces raised for the second Scottish 
war.18 According to Clarendon, Strafford was originally designed for the post, but he chose rather to serve as lieutenant-general under the 
Earl of Northumberland, believing that the conferring of that precedence upon him would more firmly fasten him to the king's interest, and that his power 
in the northern parts would bring great advantage to the king's services.19 His commission is dated 14 Feb. 1640.20 Northumberland, 
in spite of his doubts and despondency, vigorously exerted himself to organise the army, and contributed £5,00021 to the loan raised for 
the king's service in 1639.22 But in August 1640 he fell ill, and Strafford took command of the army in his place.23
  
In the Long Parliament Northumberland gradually drew to the side of the opposition. He was one of the witnesses against 
Strafford on the twenty-third article of the impeachment; and, though denying that Strafford had intended to use the Irish 
army against England, his evidence to the lord deputy's recommendation of arbitrary measures was extremely damaging. The king, 
wrote Northumberland to Leicester, was angry with him because he would not perjure himself for Strafford.24
  
 
Northumberland himself was vexed because the king declined to promote Leicester.25 Clarendon represents Northumberland sending to the House of 
Commons Henry Percy's letter about the army plot as the first visible sign of his defection.26 It was followed in the second session by an open 
alliance with the opposition party in the House of Lords. Northumberland signed the protests against the appointment of Lunsford to the command of the Tower, 
against the refusal of the House of Lords to join the commons in demanding the militia, and against their similar refusal to punish the Duke of Richmond's 
dangerous words. The popular party showed their confidence in Northumberland by nominating him Lord Lieutenant of the four counties of Sussex, Northumberland, 
Pembroke, and Anglesey (28 Feb. 1642). His possession of the post of Lord High Admiral secured the parliamentary lenders the control of the navy. When the 
king refused to appoint the Earl of Warwick to command the fleet, the two houses ordered Northumberland to make him Vice-Admiral, and Northumberland obeyed. 
On 28 June 1642 the king dismissed Northumberland from his office, but too late to prevent the sailors from accepting Warwick as their commander.27
  
Charles felt Northumberland's defection very severely. He had raised him to office after office, and, as he complained, 'courted him as his mistress, and 
conversed with him as his friend, without the least interruption or intermission of all possible favour and kindness.'28 In three letters to Sir 
John Bankes, Northumberland explained his position. 'We believe that those persons who are most powerful with the king do endeavour to bring parliaments to 
such a condition that they shall only be made instruments to execute the commands of the king, who were established for his greatest and most supreme council 
. . . . It is far from our thoughts to change the form of government, to invade upon the king's just prerogative, or to leave him unprovided of as plentiful 
a revenue as either he or any of his predecessors ever enjoyed.' He protested that the armaments of the parliament were purely defensive in their aim. 'Let 
us but have our laws, liberties, and privileges secured unto us, and let him perish that seeks to deprive the king of any part of his prerogative, or that 
authority which is due unto him. If our fortunes be to fall into troubles, I am sure few (excepting the king himself) will suffer more than I shall do: 
therefore for my own private considerations, as well as for the public good, no man shall more earnestly endeavour an agreement between the king and his 
people.'29
  
 
True to these professions, Northumberland, though he accepted a place in the parliamentary committee of safety (4 July 1642), was throughout counted among 
the heads of the peace party.30 On 10 Nov. 1642 he was sent to present a message of peace to the king at Colebrook, and in the following March 
he was at the head of the parliamentary commissioners sent to treat with the king at Oxford. Whitelocke praises his 'sober and stout carriage to the king,' 
his civility to his brother commissioners, and the 'state and nobleness' with which he lived while at Oxford.31 His zeal for peace made him 
suspected by the violent party. Harry Marten took upon himself to open one of Northumberland's letters to his wife, and, as he refused to apologise, 
Northumberland struck him with his cane. This took place on 18 April 1643 in the Painted Chamber, as Marten was returning from a conference between the two 
Houses, and was complained of by the Commons as a breach of privilege.32 In June Northumberland was accused of complicity in Waller's plot, but 
indignantly repudiated the charge, and Waller's statements against him are too vague to be credited33 He was one of the originators of the peace 
propositions agreed to by the House of Lords on 4 Aug. 1643, and appealed to Essex for support against the mob violence which 
procured their rejection by the Commons.34 Finding Essex disinclined to support the peace movement, Northumberland retired to Petworth, and for 
a time absented himself altogether from the parliamentary councils. Clarendon, who held that the king might have won back Northumberland by returning him 
to his office of Lord Admiral, asserts that if the other peers who deserted the Parliament at the same time had been well received by the king, Northumberland 
would have followed their example.35
  
A few months later Northumberland returned to his place in Parliament, and the two Houses showed their confidence by appointing him one of the committee of 
both kingdoms (16 Feb. 1644). In the treaty at Uxbridge in January 1645 Northumberland again acted as one of the parliamentary commissioners, and was their 
usual spokesman.36 But he was hardly as ready to make concessions as before. 'The repulse he had formerly received at Oxford upon his addresses 
thither, and the fair escape he had made afterwards from the jealousy of the parliament, had wrought so far upon him that he resolved no more to depend upon 
the one or provoke the other, and was willing to see the king's power and authority so much restrained that he might not be able to do him any harm.'37 
During 1645 he acted with the leaders of the independents, helping to secure the passage of the self-denying ordinance, and the organisation of the new model 
army.38 On 18 March he was appointed to the guardianship of the king's two youngest children, with a salary of £3,00039 a year; 
and it was even reported that if the king continued to refuse to come to terms, the Duke of Gloucester would be made king, with Northumberland as Lord Protector.40 
After the fall of Oxford the Duke of York also passed into his custody, with an allowance of £7,50041 for his maintenance.
  
With the close of the war Northumberland again took up the part of mediator. His own losses during its continuance had amounted to over £42,000,42 
towards which, on 19 Jan. 1647, parliament had voted him £10,000.43 In January 1647 he united with Manchester 
and the leading presbyterian peers in drawing up propositions likely to be more acceptable to the king than those previously offered him. They were forwarded 
through Bellievre, the French ambassador, who transmitted them to Henrietta Maria.44 On 26 Nov. 1646 Northumberland 
had been accused of secretly sending money to the king during the war, and the charge had been investigated at the desire of the Commons by a committee of the 
House of Lords; but the informer himself finally admitted that the charge was false.45 That it should have been made at all was probably the effect 
of his obvious preference for a compromise with Charles.
  
Northumberland was one of the peers who left their seats in Parliament after the riots of July 1647, and signed the engagement of 4 Aug. to stand by the army 
for the restoration of the freedom of the two Houses.46 It was at Northumberland's house, Syon, near Brentford, that the conferences of the seceders 
and the officers of the army were held and an agreement arrived at.47
  
When the king was in the hands of the army, and during his residence at Hampton Court, he was allowed to see his children with more frequency than before, 
Parliament, however, stipulating that Northumberland should accompany his charges. In one of these interviews it is said that Charles gently reproached 
Northumberland for his defection, and hinted that, if he would return to his allegiance, the Duke of York should be married to one of his daughters. But 
Northumberland remained firm against any temptations: while his opposition to the vote of no address proved that fear was equally unable to make him swerve 
from the policy of moderation and compromise.48 On 21 April 1648 the Duke of York escaped from Northumberland's custody, and made his way in 
disguise to Holland. But as early as 19 Feb. Northumberland had asked to be relieved of his charge, and declined to be responsible if he should escape; so 
the two Houses, on hearing the Earl's explanation, acquitted him of all blame in the matter.49 In the following September Northumberland was 
appointed one of the fifteen commissioners sent to negotiate with Charles at Newport, and appears from his subsequent conduct to have regarded the king's 
concessions as a sufficient basis for the settlement of the nation. In the House of Lords he headed the opposition to the ordinance for the king's trial. 
'Not one in twenty of the people of England,' he declared, 'are yet satisfied whether the king did levy war against the houses first, or the houses first 
against him: and, besides, if the king did levy war first, we have no law extant that can be produced to make it treason in him to do; and for us to declare 
treason by an ordinance when the matter of fact is not yet proved, nor any law to bring to judge it by, seems to me very unreasonable.'50
  
Under the Commonwealth and protectorate Northumberland remained rigidly aloof from public affairs. He consented, however, to take the engagement to be 
faithful to the Commonwealth.51 At his own request Parliament relieved him of the expensive and troublesome charge of Prince Henry and the 
Princess Elizabeth, appointing, at his own suggestion, his sister, the Countess of Leicester, to fill his place.52 He took no part in any plots 
against the government. An attempt to make him out to be a delinquent failed; but the demand that Wressell Castle should be made untenable, and the 
consequences of a loan raised by the parliament, for which he had become engaged, gave him some vexation.53 He refused to sit either in 
Cromwell's House of Lords or in that summoned by his son [Richard Cromwell] in 1659. 
To Richard's invitation he is said to have replied that, ' till the government was such as his predecessors have served under, he could not in honour do 
it; but, that granted, he should see his willingness to serve him with his life and fortune.'54
  
He looked forward to the restoration of the House of Lords as a necessary part of the settlement of the nation, but deprecated any premature attempt on 
the part of the lords themselves to reclaim their rights. On 5 March 1660 he wrote to the Earl of Manchester, referring to 
the recent attempt made by some of the lords to persuade Monck to allow them to sit, and urging its unseasonableness.55 
An unconditional restoration he did not desire, and was one of the heads of the little cabal which proposed that merely those peers who had sat in 1648 
should be permitted to take their places in the Upper House, and that these should impose on Charles II the conditions offered 
to his father at the Newport treaty.56 In the Convention Parliament which met in April 1660 he supported a general act of indemnity, and was 
heard to say that, 'though he had no part in the death of the king, he was against questioning those who had been concerned in that affair; that the 
example might be more useful to posterity and profitable to future kings, by deterring them from the like exorbitances.'57
  
Though the policy which Northumberland had pursued must have been extremely distasteful both to the king and to his ministers, he was sworn in as a privy 
councillor immediately after the king's return (31 May 1660)58 He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Sussex (11 Aug. 1660) and joint Lord Lieutenant 
of Northumberland (7 Sept. 1660), and acted as Lord High Constable at the coronation of Charles II (18-23 April 1661). But he 
exercised no influence over the policy of the king, and took henceforth no part in public affairs. He died on 13 Oct. 1668, in the sixty-sixth year of his 
age, and was buried at Petworth.
  
Clarendon terms Northumberland 'the proudest man alive,' and adds that 'if he had thought the king as much above him as he thought himself above other 
considerable men, he would have been a good subject.' 'He was in all his deportment a very great man,' and throughout his political career he behaved with 
a dignity and independence more characteristic of a feudal potentate than a seventeenth-century nobleman. Without possessing great abilities, he enjoyed 
as much reputation and influence as if he had done so. 'Though his notions were not large or deep, yet his temper and reservedness in discourse, and his 
unrashness in speaking, got him the reputation of an able and a wise man; which he made evident in his excellent government of his family, where no man 
was more absolutely obeyed; and no man had ever fewer idle words to answer for; and in debates of importance he always expressed himself very pertinently.'59 
At the commencement of the Civil war he had 'the most esteemed and unblemished reputation, in court and country, of any person of his rank throughout the 
kingdom.' At the close of the struggle he preserved it almost unimpaired. 'In spite of all the partial disadvantages which were brought upon him by living 
in such a divided age, yet there was no man perhaps of any party but believed, honoured, and would have trusted him. Neither was this due to any chance of 
his birth, but, as all lasting reputation is, to those qualities which ran through the frame of his mind and the course of his life.'60
  
   
Northumberland married twice: first, in January 1629, Lady Anne Cecil, eldest daughter of William, second earl of Salisbury. This match was strongly 
disapproved by the bridegroom's father, who attributed his wrongs to the jealousy 
of the first Earl of Salisbury, and declared that the blood of Percy would not mix with the 
blood of Cecil if you poured it in a dish.'61 She died on 6 Dec. 1637, and was buried at Petworth.62 By her Northumberland had issue 
five daughters, three of whom—Catharine, Dorothy, and Lucy—died in childhood: Lady Anne Percy, born on 12 Aug. 1633, married, on 21 June 1652, 
Philip, Lord Stanhope, and died on 29 Nov. 1654; Lady Elizabeth Percy, born on 1 Dec. 1636, married, on 19 May 1653, Arthur, Lord Capel (created Earl of 
Essex in 1661), and died on 5 Feb. 1718.63
  
Northumberland's second wife was Lady Elizabeth Howard, second daughter of Theophilus, second Earl of Suffolk. The marriage took place on 1 Oct. 1642. She 
died on 11 March 1705. By this marriage the great house built by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, came into Northumberland's possession, and was henceforth 
known as Northumberland House. It was demolished in 1874 to make room for Northumberland Avenue.64 By his second countess Earl Algernon had issue: 
(1) Josceline, eleventh Earl of Northumberland, born on 4 July 1644, married, on 23 Dec. 1662, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, [4th] Earl 
of Southampton, and died on 21 May 1670, leaving a son, Henry Percy, who died on 18 Dec. 1669, and a daughter, Elizabeth Percy, born on 26 Jan. 1667, afterwards 
Duchess of Somerset; (2) Lady Mary Percy, born on 22 July 1647, died on 3 July 1652.
 
 
  
1.  Chamberlain, Letters during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, p. 157; Collins, Peerage, ed. Brydges, ii. 346. 
2.  Fonblanque, House of Percy, ii. 367. 
3.  Antiquarian Repertory, iv. 374. 
4.  Doyle, Official Baronage, ii. 663. 
5.  Strafford Letters, i. 363, 427; Fonblanque, ii. 630. 
6.  Gardiner, History of England, viii. 156; Strafford Letters, i. 524; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1635-6, pp. xx, 357. 
7.  Strafford Letters, ii. 40, 49; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1636-7, pp. 202, 217, 251; Fonblanque, ii. 379. 
8.  Strafford Letters, ii. 54. 
9.  ib. ii. 84; Gardiner, viii. 219; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1637, pp. xxi-xxv. 
10.  ib. 1637-8, p. 321; Collins, ii. 247. 
11.  Strafford Letters, ii. 154; Gardiner, viii. 338. 
12.  ib. ii. 186, 266. 
13.  Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1638-9, p. 608. 
14.  Collins, Sydney Papers, ii. 608-23; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1639-40, pp. 22, 526; Strafford Letters, ii. 276. 
15.  Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1640, pp. 71, 115; Sydney Papers, ii. 623. 
16.  Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 3 ; Gardiner, History of England, ix. 122. 
17.  Collins, Sydney Papers, ii. 652, 654. 
18.  ib. ii. 626. 
19.  Rebellion, ed. Macray, ii. 80 n. 
20.  Rushworth, iii. 989. 
21. £5,000 in 1639 was roughly equivalent in purchasing power to £659,000 in 2010. 
Source: Measuring Worth. 
22.  Sydney Papers, ii. 629; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1640, pp. 294, 363, 514, 572. 
23.  ib. pp. 588, 603. 
24.  Rushworth, Trial of Strafford, pp. 533, 543; Sydney Papers, ii. 665. 
25.  ib. ii. 661-6. 
26.  Rebellion, iii. 228; Commons' Journals, ii. 172-5. 
27.  Clarendon, Rebellion, iv. 330, v. 376; Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 85; Gardiner, History of England, x. 176, 185, 208. 
28.  Clarendon, Rebellion, iii. 228; Memoirs of Sir Philip Warwick, p. 117. 
29. Bankes, Story of Corfe Castle, pp. 122, 129, 139. 
30.  Gardiner, Great Civil War, i. 53, 80. 
31.  Memorials, edit. 1853, i. 195-201; Old Parliamentary History, xii. 29, 201. 
32.  Lords' Journals, vi. 11; Clarendon, Rebellion, vii. 20. 
33.  Sanford, Studies and Illustrations of the Great Rebellion, pp. 543, 562. 
34.  ib. p. 576; Gardiner, Great Civil War, i. 185; Clarendon, Rebellion, vii. 166-75. 
35.  Rebellion, vii. 21, 188, 244, 248. 
36.  Whitelocke, i. 377, 385 ; Clarendon, Rebellion, viii. 218. 
37.  ib. viii. 244. 
38.  Gardiner, Great Civil War, ii. 189; Sanford, Studies and Illustrations, p. 353. 
39. £3,000 in 1645 was roughly equivalent in purchasing power to £397,000 in 2010. 
Source: Measuring Worth. 
40.  ib.; Lords' Journals, vii. 279, 327. 
41. £7,500 in 1645 was roughly equivalent in purchasing power to £992,000 in 2010. 
Source: Measuring Worth. 
42. £42,000 in 1647 was roughly equivalent in purchasing power to £4,660,000 in 2010. 
Source: Measuring Worth. 
43. £10,000 in 1647 was roughly equivalent in purchasing power to £1,110,000 in 2010. 
Source: Measuring Worth; Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. p. 86; Commons' Journals, viii. 651. 
44.  Gardiner, Great Civil War, iii. 213.  
45.  Lords' Journals, viii. 578, 678. 
46.  Lords' Journals, ix. 385. 
47.  Waller, Vindication, p. 191. 
48.  Green, Lives of the Princesses of England, vi. 360; Gardiner, Great Civil War, iv. 52. 
49.  Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1648-9, p. 19; Lords' Journals, x. 220; Life of James II, i. 29-33. 
50. Gardiner, Great Civil War, iv. 289. 
51.  Sanford, Studies and Illustrations of the Great Rebellion, p. 292. 
52.  Cary, Memorials of the Civil War, ii. 127, 138; Commons' Journals, vi. 216. 
53.  Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1649-50, p. 286; Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. pp. 87-8. 
54.  Clarendon State Papers, ii. 432.  
55.  Manchester, Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne, i. 395. 
56.  Collins, Sydney Papers, ii. 685; Clarendon State Papers, iii.729. 
57.  Ludlow, Memoirs, 267, ed. 1894. 
58.  Blencowe, Sydney Papers, p. 158. 
59.  Rebellion, vi. 398, viii. 244. 
60.  Sir William Temple to Josceline, eleventh Earl of Northumberland, 26 Dec. 1668; Fonblanque, ii. 475. 
61.  Fonblanque, ii. 370. 
62.  Strafford Letters, ii. 142. 
63.  ib. i. 76, 116, 469; Collins, ii. 353; Fonblanque, ii. 388, 407. 
64.  Wheatley, London Past and Present, ii. 603. 
  
 
  
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Lee, Sidney. "Algernon Percy, Tenth Earl of Northumberland." 
The Dictionary of National Biography. Vol XLIV. Sidney Lee, Ed. 
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895. 385-90.
  
 
  
Other Local Resources: 
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 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
 
 - Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland
 
 - Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland
 
 - Henry Algernon Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland
 
 - Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland
 
 - Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland
 
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Books for further study:
Brenan, Gerald. A History of the House of Percy. 
            Fremantle & Co., 1902.
  
Collins, Arthur. An History of the Ancient and Illustrious Family of the Percys. 
           Gale ECCO, 2010. (Reprint from 1750)
  
De Fonblanque, E. Barrington. Annals of the House of Percy. 
           London: Richard Clay & Sons, 1887.
  
Lomas, Richard. A Power in the Land: The Percys. 
           East Linton: Tuckwell Press, Ltd., 1999.
  
Rose, Alexander. Kings in the North: The House of Percy in British History. 
            Phoenix Press, 2003.
  
 
 
  
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The Battle of Agincourt, 1415 
The Battle of Castillon, 1453
 
  
 
The Wars of the Roses 1455-1485 
Causes of the Wars of the Roses 
The House of Lancaster 
The House of York 
The House of Beaufort 
The House of Neville
  
The First Battle of St. Albans, 1455 
The Battle of Blore Heath, 1459 
The Rout of Ludford, 1459 
The Battle of Northampton, 1460 
The Battle of Wakefield, 1460 
The Battle of Mortimer's Cross, 1461 
The 2nd Battle of St. Albans, 1461 
The Battle of Towton, 1461 
The Battle of Hedgeley Moor, 1464 
The Battle of Hexham, 1464 
The Battle of Edgecote, 1469 
The Battle of Losecoat Field, 1470 
The Battle of Barnet, 1471 
The Battle of Tewkesbury, 1471 
The Treaty of Pecquigny, 1475 
The Battle of Bosworth Field, 1485 
The Battle of Stoke Field, 1487 
 
Henry VI 
Margaret of Anjou 
Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York 
Edward IV 
Elizabeth Woodville 
Richard Woodville, 1. Earl Rivers 
Anthony Woodville, 2. Earl Rivers 
Jane Shore 
Edward V 
Richard III 
George, Duke of Clarence
  
Ralph Neville, 2. Earl of Westmorland 
Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury 
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick 
Edward Neville, Baron Bergavenny 
William Neville, Lord Fauconberg 
Robert Neville, Bishop of Salisbury 
John Neville, Marquis of Montagu 
George Neville, Archbishop of York 
John Beaufort, 1. Duke Somerset 
Edmund Beaufort, 2. Duke Somerset 
Henry Beaufort, 3. Duke of Somerset 
Edmund Beaufort, 4. Duke Somerset 
Margaret Beaufort 
Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond 
Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke 
Humphrey Stafford, D. Buckingham 
Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham 
Humphrey Stafford, E. of Devon 
Thomas, Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby 
Sir William Stanley 
Archbishop Thomas Bourchier 
Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex 
John Mowbray, 3. Duke of Norfolk 
John Mowbray, 4. Duke of Norfolk 
John Howard, Duke of Norfolk 
Henry Percy, 2. E. Northumberland 
Henry Percy, 3. E. Northumberland 
Henry Percy, 4. E. Northumberland 
William, Lord Hastings 
Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter 
William Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel 
William Herbert, 1. Earl of Pembroke 
John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford 
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford 
Thomas de Clifford, 8. Baron Clifford 
John de Clifford, 9. Baron Clifford 
John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester 
Thomas Grey, 1. Marquis Dorset 
Sir Andrew Trollop 
Archbishop John Morton 
Edward Plantagenet, E. of Warwick 
John Talbot, 2. E. Shrewsbury 
John Talbot, 3. E. Shrewsbury 
John de la Pole, 2. Duke of Suffolk 
John de la Pole, E. of Lincoln 
Edmund de la Pole, E. of Suffolk 
Richard de la Pole 
John Sutton, Baron Dudley 
James Butler, 5. Earl of Ormonde 
Sir James Tyrell 
Edmund Grey, first Earl of Kent 
George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent 
John, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton 
James Touchet, 7th Baron Audley 
Walter Blount, Lord Mountjoy 
Robert Hungerford, Lord Moleyns 
Thomas, Lord Scales 
John, Lord Lovel and Holand 
Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell 
Sir Richard Ratcliffe 
William Catesby 
Ralph, 4th Lord Cromwell 
Jack Cade's Rebellion, 1450
 
  
Tudor Period
  
King Henry VII 
Queen Elizabeth of York 
Arthur, Prince of Wales 
Lambert Simnel 
Perkin Warbeck 
The Battle of Blackheath, 1497
  
King Ferdinand II of Aragon 
Queen Isabella of Castile 
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
  
King Henry VIII 
Queen Catherine of Aragon 
Queen Anne Boleyn 
Queen Jane Seymour 
Queen Anne of Cleves 
Queen Catherine Howard 
Queen Katherine Parr
  
King Edward VI 
Queen Mary I 
Queen Elizabeth I 
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond
  
Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland 
James IV, King of Scotland 
The Battle of Flodden Field, 1513 
James V, King of Scotland 
Mary of Guise, Queen of Scotland
  
Mary Tudor, Queen of France 
Louis XII, King of France 
Francis I, King of France 
The Battle of the Spurs, 1513 
Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520 
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 
Eustace Chapuys, Imperial Ambassador 
The Siege of Boulogne, 1544
  
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey 
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer 
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex 
Thomas, Lord Audley 
Thomas Wriothesley, E. Southampton 
Sir Richard Rich 
 
Edward Stafford, D. of Buckingham 
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk 
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk 
John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland 
Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk 
Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire 
George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford 
John Russell, Earl of Bedford 
Thomas Grey, 2. Marquis of Dorset 
Henry Grey, D. of Suffolk 
Charles Somerset, Earl of Worcester 
George Talbot, 4. E. Shrewsbury 
Francis Talbot, 5. E. Shrewsbury 
Henry Algernon Percy, 
     5th Earl of Northumberland 
Henry Algernon Percy, 
     6th Earl of Northumberland 
Ralph Neville, 4. E. Westmorland 
Henry Neville, 5. E. Westmorland 
William Paulet, Marquis of Winchester 
Sir Francis Bryan 
Sir Nicholas Carew 
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford 
John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford 
Thomas Seymour, Lord Admiral 
Edward Seymour, Protector Somerset 
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 
Henry Pole, Lord Montague 
Sir Geoffrey Pole 
Thomas Manners, Earl of Rutland 
Henry Manners, Earl of Rutland 
Henry Bourchier, 2. Earl of Essex 
Robert Radcliffe, 1. Earl of Sussex 
Henry Radcliffe, 2. Earl of Sussex 
George Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon 
Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter 
George Neville, Baron Bergavenny 
Sir Edward Neville 
William, Lord Paget 
William Sandys, Baron Sandys 
William Fitzwilliam, E. Southampton 
Sir Anthony Browne 
Sir Thomas Wriothesley 
Sir William Kingston 
George Brooke, Lord Cobham 
Sir Richard Southwell 
Thomas Fiennes, 9th Lord Dacre 
Sir Francis Weston 
Henry Norris 
Lady Jane Grey 
Sir Thomas Arundel 
Sir Richard Sackville 
Sir William Petre 
Sir John Cheke 
Walter Haddon, L.L.D 
Sir Peter Carew 
Sir John Mason 
Nicholas Wotton 
John Taylor 
Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Younger
  
Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio 
Cardinal Reginald Pole 
Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester 
Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London 
Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London 
John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester 
John Aylmer, Bishop of London 
Thomas Linacre 
William Grocyn 
Archbishop William Warham 
Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham 
Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester 
Edward Fox, Bishop of Hereford
  
Pope Julius II 
Pope Leo X 
Pope Clement VII 
Pope Paul III 
Pope Pius V
  
Pico della Mirandola 
Desiderius Erasmus 
Martin Bucer 
Richard Pace 
Christopher Saint-German 
Thomas Tallis 
Elizabeth Barton, the Nun of Kent 
Hans Holbein, the Younger 
The Sweating Sickness
  
Dissolution of the Monasteries 
Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536 
Robert Aske 
Anne Askew 
Lord Thomas Darcy 
Sir Robert Constable
  
Oath of Supremacy 
The Act of Supremacy, 1534 
The First Act of Succession, 1534 
The Third Act of Succession, 1544 
The Ten Articles, 1536 
The Six Articles, 1539 
The Second Statute of Repeal, 1555 
The Act of Supremacy, 1559 
Articles Touching Preachers, 1583
  
Queen Elizabeth I 
William Cecil, Lord Burghley 
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury 
Sir Francis Walsingham 
Sir Nicholas Bacon 
Sir Thomas Bromley
  
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 
Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick 
Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon 
Sir Thomas Egerton, Viscount Brackley 
Sir Francis Knollys 
Katherine "Kat" Ashley 
Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester 
George Talbot, 6. E. of Shrewsbury 
Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury 
Gilbert Talbot, 7. E. of Shrewsbury 
Sir Henry Sidney 
Sir Robert Sidney 
Archbishop Matthew Parker 
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex 
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 
Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich 
Sir Christopher Hatton 
Edward Courtenay, E. Devonshire 
Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland 
Thomas Radcliffe, 3. Earl of Sussex 
Henry Radcliffe, 4. Earl of Sussex 
Robert Radcliffe, 5. Earl of Sussex 
William Parr, Marquis of Northampton 
Henry Wriothesley, 2. Southampton 
Henry Wriothesley, 3. Southampton 
Charles Neville, 6. E. Westmorland 
Thomas Percy, 7. E. Northumberland 
Henry Percy, 8. E. Northumberland 
Henry Percy, 9. E. Nothumberland 
William Herbert, 1. Earl of Pembroke 
Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham 
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk 
Henry Howard, 1. Earl of Northampton 
Thomas Howard, 1. Earl of Suffolk 
Henry Hastings, 3. E. of Huntingdon 
Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland 
Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland 
Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland 
Henry FitzAlan, 12. Earl of Arundel 
Thomas, Earl Arundell of Wardour 
Edward Somerset, E. of Worcester 
William Davison 
Sir Walter Mildmay 
Sir Ralph Sadler 
Sir Amyas Paulet 
Gilbert Gifford 
Anthony Browne, Viscount Montague 
François, Duke of Alençon & Anjou
  
Mary, Queen of Scots 
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley 
James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell 
Anthony Babington and the Babington Plot 
John Knox
  
Philip II of Spain 
The Spanish Armada, 1588 
Sir Francis Drake 
Sir John Hawkins
  
William Camden 
Archbishop Whitgift 
Martin Marprelate Controversy 
John Penry (Martin Marprelate) 
Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury 
John Dee, Alchemist
  
Philip Henslowe 
Edward Alleyn 
The Blackfriars Theatre 
The Fortune Theatre 
The Rose Theatre 
The Swan Theatre 
Children's Companies 
The Admiral's Men 
The Lord Chamberlain's Men 
Citizen Comedy 
The Isle of Dogs, 1597 
 
Common Law 
Court of Common Pleas 
Court of King's Bench 
Court of Star Chamber 
Council of the North 
Fleet Prison 
Assize 
Attainder 
First Fruits & Tenths 
Livery and Maintenance 
Oyer and terminer 
Praemunire 
  
The Stuarts
  
King James I of England 
Anne of Denmark 
Henry, Prince of Wales 
The Gunpowder Plot, 1605 
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham 
Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset 
Arabella Stuart, Lady Lennox
  
William Alabaster 
Bishop Hall 
Bishop Thomas Morton 
Archbishop William Laud 
John Selden 
Lucy Harington, Countess of Bedford 
Henry Lawes
  
King Charles I 
Queen Henrietta Maria
  
Long Parliament 
Rump Parliament 
Kentish Petition, 1642
  
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford 
John Digby, Earl of Bristol 
George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol 
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax 
Robert Devereux, 3rd E. of Essex 
Robert Sidney, 2. E. of Leicester 
Algernon Percy, E. of Northumberland 
Henry Montagu, Earl of Manchester 
Edward Montagu, 2. Earl of Manchester
  
The Restoration
  
King Charles II 
King James II 
Test Acts
  
Greenwich Palace 
Hatfield House 
Richmond Palace 
Windsor Palace 
Woodstock Manor
  
The Cinque Ports 
Mermaid Tavern 
Malmsey Wine 
Great Fire of London, 1666 
Merchant Taylors' School 
Westminster School 
The Sanctuary at Westminster 
"Sanctuary" 
  
Images: 
 
Chart of the English Succession from William I through Henry VII
  
Medieval English Drama
  
London c1480, MS Royal 16 
London, 1510, the earliest view in print 
Map of England from Saxton's Descriptio Angliae, 1579 
London in late 16th century 
Location Map of Elizabethan London 
Plan of the Bankside, Southwark, in Shakespeare's time 
Detail of Norden's Map of the Bankside, 1593 
Bull and Bear Baiting Rings from the Agas Map (1569-1590, pub. 1631) 
Sketch of the Swan Theatre, c. 1596 
Westminster in the Seventeenth Century, by Hollar 
Visscher's View of London, 1616 
Larger Visscher's View in Sections 
c. 1690.  View of London Churches, after the Great Fire 
The Yard of the Tabard Inn from Thornbury, Old and New London 
 
 
 
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