Other Events:

• Office: 24 June 1470; Warden of the East and Middle Marches
• Office: 1474; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
• Office: 14 Aug. 1474; Sheriff of Northumberland
• Decoration: 18 Aug. 1474; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Will: 27 July 1485
• Office: 30 Nov. 1483 – 22 Aug. 1485; Lord Great Chamberlain of England
• Hereditary Title: 25 March 1470 – 28 April 1489; 4th Earl of Northumberland [E., 1377 or 1416]
• Hereditary Title: Feb. 1483/84 – 28 April 1489; Lord Poynings [E., 1337]
• Probate: 9 Aug. 1491

Notes:

When the Earldom of Northumberland was granted to "Sir John Neville of Montagu, Knight," in May 1464, Percy was committed to the Fleet prison, and removed, after September 1465, to the Tower, whence he was discharged 27 October 1469, having done fealty to Edward IV.

In 1467–8 he was in the charge of the Earl of Pembroke, and living in his house.

Following his discharge from the Tower, he appears to have remained in touch with the King until the Earldom was restored to him at York, 25 March 1470.

The following day, as Sir Henry Percy, Kt., he had a grant of the custody of his father's forfeited estates in Yorkshire, Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and London. Neville had surrendered his grant so far as it concerned Northumberland, by the King's command, 22 February.

The Earl recovered possession as from 2 March 1469/70 (possibly the date of his coming of age), by the Act reversing his father's attainder, 1472.

He attended a Council at Canterbury in June 1470.

On 24 June 1470, as Henry Percy, son of the late Earl, he was constituted Warden of the East and Middle Marches towards Scotland, three months before Edward IV's flight. He was so constituted by patent dated 17 July; a patent of the following day calls him Earl of Northumberland.

He retained the Wardenship under successive Kings till his death.

He held numerous other official appointments in the North—e.g. Commissioner to treat with the Scots, 1471–73, 1483, 1484, 1488; of array in the Northern counties, 1472; Justice of the Forests North of Trent and constable of Bamborough Castle, 5 June 1471; constable of Dunstanborough and Knaresborough Castles; constable and porter of the castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5 March 1473/74. By Henry VII he was made bailiff of Tyndale, Northumberland, in 1486.

On his return in 1471, Edward IV, landing in the North, produced a letter, as of summons, from the restored Earl, which eased his progress towards recapture of the throne.

In 1475 he took part in Edward IV's expedition to France.

He was in command at the capture of Berwick, 1482, and made Governor thereof, 1483. His prowess was commended by the Commons in Parliament.

He bore the sword Curtana at the Coronation of Richard III, 7 July 1483.

He deserted Richard III on Bosworth Field.

Office:
"The Earl was made sheriff of Northumberland for life, 14 Aug. 1474, and (by Henry VII) during pleasure, 12 Feb. 1487/8."

Hereditary Title:
"The death of his mother, in Feb. 1483/4, made him, according to modern doctrine, Lord Poynings [1337]."

Died:
"Being employed to levy in the North an unpopular tax and to inquire into disturbances in the city of York, he was murdered by the rabble at his manor house, Cock Lodge, near Topcliffe, Yorks, 28 Apr. 1489, aged about 40 ..."

Henry married Lady Maud Herbert circa 1476. Maud (daughter of William (Herbert), 1st Earl of Pembroke and Anne Devereux) died before 27 July 1485; was buried in Beverley Minster, Beverley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He had order for livery of his lands, without proof of age, 14 May 1498.

Other Events:

• Will: 24 June 1538

Notes:

Will:
She directed that her heart be buried at the Greyfriars, London, and her body at the Greyfriars, Bristol.

Eleanor married Edward (Stafford), 3rd Duke of Buckingham circa 14 Dec. 1490. Edward (son of Henry (Stafford), 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Lady Katharine Woodville) was born on 3 Feb. 1477/78 in Brecknock Castle, Brecknock, Brecknockshire, Wales; died on 17 May 1521 in Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Austin Friars, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 18 Sept. 1501 – 17 May 1521; Earl of Stafford [courtesy title]
• Office: 1532; Recorder of Stafford
• Hereditary Title: 1547; 1st Baron Stafford [E., 1547]
• Office: 23 Feb. 1553/54; Chamberlain of the Exchequer
• Office: 1559; Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire
• Office: 24 Sept. 1560; Ranger of the Forest of Cannock

Notes:

As Henry Stafford he was granted by the King, 20 Dec. 1522, several of the estates in Staffordshire and elsewhere, forfeited by his father. This grant was confirmed by Act of Parliament, 14 and 15 Hen. VIII.

Though still "corrupted in blood," he received a further grant of the castle and manor of Stafford, 15 July 1531, being there described as Henry, Lord Stafford, by which style he was thereafter generally known.

In a petition for restoration of blood, 1529, he states that Wolsey had turned him out of his house in Sussex, where he had lived three years, and thereby compelled him "to board at an abbey this four years' day with his wife and seven children."

On 5 Dec. 1532 he paid £20 as a fine to be excused from being Knight of the Bath. He wrote to Cromwell from Stafford, 2 Oct. 1538, that he had removed "the idol called of ignorant persons Saint Erasmus" and had "so used it that no man shall thereby offend in idolatry hereafter."

He was admitted to Gray's Inn, 1528.

He was a Bencher, Middle Temple, before 1551.

His letter-book, 1545–53, with other MS. collections on his family history, is penes Lord Bagot. In 1548 he published The true dyfferes between ye regall power and the ecclesiasticall power (a translation of Fox's work of 1534), with a handsome dedication to Protector Somerset. His translation of two epistles of Erasmus was published in 1553, though no copy can now be traced (Strype, Eccles. Mem., volume iii, pt. 1, page 180). He also translated from the French by Treherne a work on forests, which is extant in Stowe MS. 414, folios 203–26. An epitaph by him on his sister, the Duchess of Norfolk, in Lambeth church, is printed in Horace Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors, ed. Park, volume ii, pages 10–11.

Admon. was granted 23 June 1563, to Ursula, his relict.

Birth:
The Register from which this date is taken was begun by Edward, Lord Stafford, 2 Jan. 1568/9, and forms part of the Stafford MSS. penes Lord Bagot, calendared in Hist. MSS. Com., 4th Rep., pages 325–28. Henry is confused with his uncle "Lord Harry of Stafforth" (created Earl of Wiltshire, 27 Jan. 1509/10) by Gairdner in The Paston Letters, volume iii, page 404, note 1.

Hereditary Title:
By Act of Parliament (Nov.–Dec. 1547) 1 Edw. VI, with remainder to the heirs male of his body.

He was summoned to Parliament accordingly, 24 Nov. (1548) 2 Edw. VI, being placed last among the Barons.

On 12 Feb. 1557/58, by resolution of the House of Lords, he was restored to the precedency of his ancestors, Barons Stafford, and was placed after Lord Talbot.

This creation of 1547 was unquestionably a new one, nor were there any words therein to give it the precedence due to the old Barony. The limitation to heirs male of the grantee was also different from that of the Barony created by the writ of 1298/99; yet as was often the case (see The Complete Peerage, 2nd ed., volume I, Appendix C), the House of Lords allowed the grantee the precedency enjoyed by his ancestor.

It seems almost certain that "Henricus Stafford, armiger," who had been M.P. for Stafford, Jan. 1544/45 to Jan. 1546/47, and was re-elected to this Parliament, 13 Oct. 1547, was his bastard brother, another Henry Stafford, or, less probably, his son Henry, later 2nd Lord Stafford.

Office:
In consideration of his service in the late rebellion of the Duke of Northumberland he was granted, 10 July 1554, Thornbury Castle and other lands in co. Gloucester and elsewhere, formerly belonging to his father.

Henry married Lady Ursula Pole in Feb. 1518/19. Ursula (daughter of Sir Richard Pole and Saint Margaret (Plantagenet), suo jure Countess of Salisbury) died on 12 Aug. 1570. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Ralph (Neville), 4th Earl of Westmorland before June 1520. Ralph was born on 21 Feb. 1497/98; died on 24 April 1549; was buried in Staindrop, Co. Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married George (Neville), 5th Lord Bergavenny circa June 1519. George (son of George (Neville), 4th Lord Bergavenny and Margaret Fenne) was born circa 1469; died in 1535; was buried in Birling, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir Thomas Danby. Thomas (son of Sir Christopher Danby and Hon. Elizabeth Neville) died in 1590. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Anne Greville

Anne married Sir Fulke Greville, de jure 4th Lord Willoughby de Broke circa 1553. Fulke (son of Sir Fulke Greville and Elizabeth Willoughby, de jure suo jure Lady Willoughby de Broke) was born circa 1536; died on 15 Nov. 1606. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: From 1535 to 10 Feb. 1586/87; 6th Lord (Baron) Bergavenny [E., 1392]
• Decoration: 29 Sept. 1553; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Office: 1 Oct. 1553; Chief Larderer at the coronation of Queen Mary
• Administration: 9 May 1587; Granted to his widow

Notes:

He was one of the 26 peers who signed the letters patent, 16 June 1553, settling the Crown on Lady Jane Grey.

On 6 October 1586 he was one of the Peers who tried Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringhay.

Hereditary Title:
He was summoned to Parliament 23 January 1551/52 to 15 October 1586.

Henry married Lady Frances Manners before 31 Jan. 1555/56. Frances was buried in Sept. 1576 in Birling, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Darrell. Elizabeth (daughter of Stephen Darrell and Philippe Weldon) died after Feb. 1601/02. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]