William de Percy , Lord of Topcliffe, Sir 
William de was born about 1193 in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England. William de's father was Henry de Percy , Lord of Petworth, Sir and his mother was Isabel le Brus. His paternal grandparents were Josceline de Louvain , Lord of Petworth and Agnes de Percy; his maternal grandparents were Adam II de Brus , Lord of Skelton and Juetta de Arches. He was an only child. He died on July 28th, 1245 in Dalton Piercy, Hartlepool, Durham, England.General Notes
William de Percy; attained his majority some time between mid-1212 and mid-1214; was with Henry III at the taking of William de Forz, titular Count of Aumale's castle of Biham in Lincs 1221 (Aumale being another of the 25 magnates charged with ensuring that the Magna Carta was observed but who was now seen as in rebellion against royal authority rather than in understandable opposition to despotism, as had been the case when John was still on the throne five years earlier); married 1st Joan (died by 12 June 1233), daughter of Sir William Briwere or Brewer, his guardian when a minor; married 2nd Ellen (who brought him as dowry Dalton, Co Durham, in consequence called Dalton Percy (it is now in Cleveland), and died a short while before 22 Nov 1281), daughter of Ingram de Balliol by a daughter and heir of Walter de Berkeley, Chamberlain of Scotland, and died just before 28 July 1245. [Burke's Peerage]
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William de Percy, Lord of Topcliffe, co. York. [Ancestral Roots]
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William de Percy came into full possession of all those rights and properties which had been usurped at the decease of his mother but did not live long to enjoy them, for he d. in 1245, and was s. by his son (by his 2nd wife, Elena, dau. of Ingelram de Baliol, by whom he obtained in dower Dalton, afterwards Dalton Percy, in the bishopric of Durham), Henry de 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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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1021 in Louvain, Brabant, Lorraine, France d.< 1079
- b.~ 1060 in Brabant, Lorraine, France d.25 JAN 1139/40 in Jerusalem, Israel
- b.~ 1031 in France d.> 1086
- b.1121 in Louvain, Belgium d.<Sep 1180 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1024 in Macon, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d.11 Nov 1087
- b.~ 1078 in Bourgogne, France d.1131
- b.~ 1035 in Longwy, Duchy of Bar, Lorraine, France d.> 1088
- b.1160 in Petworth, Sussex, England d.<Sep 1198
- b.1069 in Percy-en-Auge, Calvados, Normandy, France d.<Dec 1135
- b.1112 in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England d.1174 in Sallay, Craven, Yorkshire, England (dspml)
- b.~ 1075 in Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d.1135
- b.1134 in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England d.<13 Oct 1204 in Petworth, Sussex, England
- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.~ 1115 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.BET 1148 AND 1166
- b.~ 1070 in Briquessart, Livry, France d.JAN 1128/29 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1098 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.> 1142
- b.~ 1070 in Crowland & Spalding, Lincolnshire, England d.> 1130
- b.~ 1193 in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England d.28 Jul 1245 in Dalton Piercy, Hartlepool, Durham, England
- b.1068 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England d.1141 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1090 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England d.1143
- b.~ 1070 in Dudley Castle, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1134 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England d.11 May 1196 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1070 in Holderness, Yorkshire, England d.1127
- b.~ 1117 in Holderness, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1089 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.1189
- b.1172 in Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, England d.> 1230
- b.~ 1059 in Arques-la-Bataille, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1116 in Thorp Arch, West Ride Yorkshire, England
- 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
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William de and Ellen de were married in a religious ceremony about 1233 in 2nd wife. They had two sons named Henry de and Ingram de.
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Children
Henry de Percy , Lord of Topcliffe, Sir Knight
Henry de was born about 1235 in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England. He died on August 29th, 1272 in Sallay, Craven, Yorkshire, England.
Ingram de Percy
Ingram de was born about 1237 in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England. He died before October 10th, 1262 in (dsp).
William de and Joan de were married in a religious ceremony in 1st wife. They had two daughters named Anastasia de and Ada de.
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