Family/Spouse: Richard le Despenser, styled Lord le Despenser. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Henry (Percy), 2nd Earl of Northumberland after Oct. 1414 in Berwick, Northumberland, England. Henry (son of Sir Henry Percy, styled Lord Percy and Lady Elizabeth Mortimer) was born on 3 Feb. 1392/93; died on 22 May 1455 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Decoration: 19 May 1426; Knighthood
• Hereditary Title: 1446; jure uxoris Lord Poynings [E., 1337]

Notes:

He was attainted 4 November 1461, and the attainder was reversed in the Parliament of 1472–73 upon his son's petition.

Hereditary Title:
He was summoned to Parliament, vita patris, from 14 December (1446) 25 Hen. VI to 26 May (1455) 33 Hen. VI, by writs directed Henrico de Percy ch[ivale]r Domino de Ponynges.

Died:
He was slain ex parte Regis Henrici at the Battle of Towton.

Henry married Eleanor (Poynings), de jure suo jure Baroness Poynings On or before 25 June 1435. Eleanor (daughter of Hon. Sir Richard de Poynings and Eleanor Berkeley) was born circa 1422; died in Feb. 1483/84. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 20 Nov. 1449; 1st Baron of Egremont, co. Cumberland [E., 1449]

Notes:

A quarrel, the origin of which is unknown, arose between him and Sir John Neville (a younger son of the Earl of Salisbury), and increased till all the northern counties were embroiled in riots and affrays.

In June 1453, Egremont and Neville were commanded to appear before the King and Council (which they did not do), since, "by occasion of certaine discordes and debates moeved betwyx" them, "divers things and novelries contrarie to oure pees have of late daies be committed ... into grete trouble and vexation of oure countree and sugitts," and in the meantime they were to keep the peace.

On 27 July 1453, Sir William Lucy and others were commissioned to inquire concerning those guilty of riots and gatherings in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland, and to cause them to find security for their good behaviour and appearance before the King and Council, and to commit to prison such as refused: while Egremont and Neville were straitly charged to depart riotous assemblies and gatherings, and to keep the peace on pain of forfeiture of their goods and lands, and the Earls, their fathers, were ordered to adopt all ways and means possible to put down such assemblies.

The measures taken having proved ineffectual, strong letters were addressed to the two Earls, 8 October 1453, and Egremont and Neville were told that in contempt of the order of 27 July they "have multiplied and daily do gaderyngg' of people of oure subgitt' redy to goo to the feld' ... as it were in lande of werre," and they were again commanded to keep the peace on pain of forfeiture.

Egremont was summoned to appear before the King and Council on 3 March 1453/54, but he kept apart in such secret places that the writs could not be served. He was joined by the Duke of Exeter, and in May 1454 the Duke of York, then Protector, found it necessary to proceed in person against them. Exeter, and Egremont and his brother Richard, were ordered to appear before the King and Council on 25 June 1454. About this time a Bill reciting the misconduct of Egremont and Richard was presented by the Commons, and it was enacted that proclamations should be made commanding them to appear before the Chancellor within a certain time, and find sufficient surety of peace or be committed to prison; if they did not appear, they were to forfeit all they possessed.

Some time afterwards they encountered the Nevilles at Stamford Bridge, "a battayll set" ensued, and they were taken prisoners. They were condemned to pay to the Nevilles 16,800 marks, and, in the meanwhile, Egremont was committed to Newgate. He escaped thence, 13 November 1456.

On 24 March 1457/58 the King reduced the fine to a bond for 4,000 marks that Egremont should keep the peace for 10 years towards the Earl of Salisbury, his wife, his sons, and his retainers.

On 10 June 1458 he was granted the castle and manor of Wressell, co. York.

He had licence, 23 June 1458, to leave the realm with 12 servants to complete the pilgrimages which he had promised to make for himself and the King.

He was appointed Constable of Conisborough Castle and granted an annuity of £40, for life, 19 December 1459.

He was a strenuous supporter of Henry VI, in defence of whose person he was slain at the Battle of Northampton, 10 July 1460, aged 37.

Birth:
The day of St. Saturninus MCCCCXXII.

Hereditary Title:
Created by patent for him and his heirs male for ever, with a grant of £10 a year from the issues of the county of Cumberland.

This is one of the sixteen Baronies created by patent before the 16th century. See Complete Peerage, 2nd edition, volume vii, Appendix A.

"The style of Lord Egremond was assumed by the (Radcliffe) Earls of Sussex, as representatives of Joan, Lady FitzWauter, one of the coheirs of the Lords Multon (of Egremont)."

He was summoned to Parliament from 5 September (1450) 29 Hen. VI to 9 October (1459) 38 Hen. VI by writs directed Thome Percy domino de Egremond' militi.

Died:
Slain at the Battle of Northampton, where he fought in defence of the person of Henry VI, of whom he was a strenuous supporter.

Notes:

Died:
He was killed at the Battle of Hedgeley Moor, where a monument called Percy's Cross was erected to commemorate the place where he fell.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Edmund (Grey), 1st Earl of Kent before Jan. 1458/59. Edmund died on 22 May 1490. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Family/Spouse: Ralph Harbottle. Ralph (son of Bertram Harbottle and Hon. Joan Lumley) was born circa 1453. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir Robert de Greystoke. Robert (son of Ralph (de Greystoke), 5th Lord Greystoke and Hon. Elizabeth FitzHugh) died on 17 June 1483. [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]

Notes:

He had licence of entry into his Durham property from bishop Bainbridge in 1503, and was lord of Beamish, Sutton on Trent, & Dalton Trevors.

Family/Spouse: Jane Willoughby. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Hebborne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]