Henry 1st Baron de Percy , of Alnwick, Sir Knt 
Henry 1st Baron de was born on March 25th, 1273 in Petworth, Sussex, England. Henry 1st Baron de's father was Henry de Percy , Lord of Topcliffe, Sir Knight and his mother was Eleanor de Warenne. His paternal grandparents were William de Percy , Lord of Topcliffe, Sir and Ellen de Baliol , Heiress of Dalton; his maternal grandparents were John de Warenne , 7th Earl of Surrey and Alice de Lusignan. He was an only child. He died at the age of 41 on October 2nd, 1314 in Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England. He was buried in Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, England.General Notes
Henry de Percy, 1st Lord (Baron) Percy, so created by writ of summons to Parliament 6 Feb 1298/9; born posthumously c25 March 1273; served in Edward I's Welsh campaign 1294, knighter 1296, fought at Battle of Dunbar 27 April 1296, in which his maternal grandfather the 7th Earl of Surrey beat off an attack by the Scots, Warden of Galloway and Ayrshire Sep 1296, Justiciar of Dumfries 1297, Jt Justiciar of Cumberland, Lancs and Westmorland 1297, Member of Council of Regency, during Edward I's absence overseas 1297-98, fought at English victory of Falkirk over the Scots 1298, at Siege of Carlaverock 1300; accompanied Edward I at Siege of Stirling 1304, King's Lt and Captain over all men-at-arms of the West Borders 1306, Constable of Scarborough Castle March 1307/8; bought 19 Nov 1309 from Anthony Beck or Bek, Bishop of Durham, the Barony (here a territorial entity carrying certain feudal rights, rather than a title of honour in the modern sense) of Alnwick, Co Northumberland, thus founding the Percy ascendancy there (for the bulk of the lands previously belonging to the family had been further south in Yorkshire, Sussex, or Hants); one of the magnates opposed to Edward II, took part in the appointment of the Lords Ordainers, an executive committee entrusted with giving specific expression to that opposition; Keeper of the Bishopric of Durham pro tem March 1311, Justice of the Forest beyond Trent and Keeper of Bamburgh Castle Dec 1311, Jt Keeper of the Marches c1311; married? by June 1294 Eleanor (died July or Aug 1328), sister of Richard de Arundel, and died between 2 and 10 Oct 1314. [Burke's Peerage]
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Henry de Percy, 9th feudal lord, was summoned to parliament from 6 February, 1299 (27th Edward I) to 29 July, 1315 (8th Edward II). This nobleman obtained, 19 November, 1309, from Anthony Beck, bishop of Durham, by purchase, a grant of the Barony of Alnwick, co. Northumberland. His lordship was one of the great barons who subscribed, in 1301, the celebrated letter to Pope Boniface VIII, upon the attempt of his holiness to interpose in the affairs of the kingdom, intimating, "That their king was not to answer in judgment, for any rights of the crown of England, before any tribunal under heaven, &c., and that, by the help of God, they would resolutely, and with all their force, maintain against all men." He m. Eleanor, dau. of John FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel, d. in 1315, and was s. by his eldest son, Henry de Percy, 2nd Lord Percy. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 423, Percy, Barons Percy, Earls of Northumberland, &c.]
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Sir Henry Percy, Knight, 9th Baron Percy, Baron of Alnwick, co. Northumberland 1309. [Ancestral Roots]
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- b.~ 1060 in Brabant, Lorraine, France d.25 JAN 1139/40 in Jerusalem, Israel
- b.1121 in Louvain, Belgium d.<Sep 1180 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1078 in Bourgogne, France d.1131
- b.1160 in Petworth, Sussex, England d.<Sep 1198
- b.1112 in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England d.1174 in Sallay, Craven, Yorkshire, England (dspml)
- b.1134 in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England d.<13 Oct 1204 in Petworth, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1115 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.BET 1148 AND 1166
- b.~ 1193 in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England d.28 Jul 1245 in Dalton Piercy, Hartlepool, Durham, England
- b.~ 1090 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England d.1143
- b.~ 1134 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England d.11 May 1196 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1117 in Holderness, Yorkshire, England
- b.1172 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England d.> 1230
- b.1090 in Newton Kyme or Scagglethorpe, Yorkshire, England d.~ 1154 in Thorp Arch, West Ride Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1134 in Scagglethorpe, Yorkshire, England d.1206
- b.~ 1110 in of Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1235 in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England d.29 Aug 1272 in Sallay, Craven, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1095 in Bywell, Hexham, Northumberland, England d.1153
- b.~ 1135 in Bywell, Hexham, Northumberland, England d.1188
- b.~ 1100 in England
- b.~ 1165 in Barnard Castle, Gainford, Durham, England d.~ 1244 in Tours-en-Vimeu, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1116 in Picquigny, Picardy, France d. in Durham, England
- b.~ 1138 in Durham, England
- b.~ 1200 in Barnard Castle, Gainford, Durham, England d.<22 Nov 1281 in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England
- b.1115 in Cullen Castle, Auldhaven, Banffshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1150 in Cullen Castle, Auldhaven, Banffshire, Scotland d.1210 in Towie, Banffshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1170 in Gartley, Banffshire, Scotland
- b.< 1121 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d.22 Sep 1174 in Loch Fergus, Scotland
- b.~ 1150 in Galloway, Scotland
- b.1126 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.25 Mar 1273 in Petworth, Sussex, England d.02 Oct 1314 in Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.1130 in Normandy, France d.07 May 1202 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.1112 in France d.10 Sep 1169 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Normandy
- b.1166 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.27 May 1240 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1119 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.19 JAN 1147/48 in Laodicea, Holy Lands (dspm)
- b.1137 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1120 in Alencon, Orne, Normandy, France d.04 Oct 1174
- b.>Aug 1231 in Warren, Sussex, England d.>Sep 1304 in Kennington, Surrey, England
- b.~ 1106 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1165
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.~ 1127 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun
- b.~ 1192 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.27 Mar 1248 in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England
- b.~ 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1141 in Ireland d.> 1186 in Waterford, Ireland
- b.1251 in Warren, Sussex, England d.> 1282
- b.~ 1141 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou, France d.<11 Apr 1169 in (dvp)
- b.~ 1163 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou, France d.Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt
- b.~ 1140 in Limoges, Haute Vienne, Limousin, France
- b.~ 1186 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou, France d.~06 Jun 1246 in Surrey, England
- b.~ 1144 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.29 Jun 1181
- b.~ 1170 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.>29 Aug 1233
- b.~ 1153 in Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, Touraine/Centre, France d.< 1213
- b.~ 1224 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou, France d.9 FEB 1255/56
- b.~ 1120 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.07 Aug 1178 in Messina, Sicily, Italy
- b.~ 1160 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.1218 in Abbey, La Couroun, France
- b.~ 1120 in Turenne, Correze, Limousin, France d.> 1201
- b.1188 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevault Abbey, Fonervrault, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 1125 in Paris, Seine, France d.1183 in Palestine
- b.~ 1161 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.~ 1130 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
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Henry 1st Baron de and Eleanor were married in a religious ceremony before June 1294. They had a son named Henry 2nd Baron de.
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Children
Henry 2nd Baron de Percy , KG, MP, Sir
Henry 2nd Baron de was born in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England. He died in Warkworth Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England.
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