General Notes

Baron Percy 1st

Battle of Hastings Military Service 1066 England 1 Event: First Crusade Military Service 1096 Palestine 1 Note:
Accompanied William the Conqueror in 1066; was distinguished with the designation "Alsgernons" (with the whiskers). He received a barony from the Conqueror, and refounded the Abbey of St. Hilda in Yorkshire. He accompanied Duke Robert in the first crusade, and d. 1096/7 at Montjoy near Jerusalem. Married Emma de Port (of a Saxon family whose lands were among those bestowed upon him by the Conqueror. It is said he "wedded her that was very heir to them, in discharging of his conscience". His oldest son was Alan de Percy. [Magna Charta Barons, p. 118]  WAITE, FOSTER LINES - 28th ggrandfather  Domesday tenant-in-chief and under-tenant of Hugh, Earl of Chester, and ancestor of the 2nd line of Percy through his great-granddau. Agnes de Percy, wife of Jocelin of Louvain. [Anglo-Norman Families, p. 77]  One of 3 bros. who came to England at the time of the Conquest. They may be descended from Erneis Tess, bro. of Raoul Tesson of Val-des-dunes' fame or may be descended from Manifred the Dane who preceeded Rollo into Neustria. He was a sworn companion-in-arms with Hugh d'Avranches, later Earl of Chester. Hugh transferred to William the great domain of Whitby in the East Riding of York, where William refounded the abbey of St-Hilda and appointed his bro. Surlo the first prior. The brothers, it would seem, were in continual disagreement, so that finally Surlo, receiving lands in Hakenas and Northfield from William Rufus, had transferred thither part of the community of Whitby. William was distinguished among his contemporaries by the addition of Algernons (with the whiskers) and his posterity constantly bore the name Algernon. He followed Duke Robert to the Holy Land in the First Crusade in 1096, and d. at Mountjoy, near Jerusalem. By his wife, Emma de Port, he had four sons and two daughters. The eldest was Alain de Percy. William held 30 knights' fees, part of which had belonged to Emma de Port, a lady of Saxon descent, whom he later married. [Falaise Roll, p. 47]  Father of Alain de Percy and Richard de Percy. [Falaise Roll, Table XII]  b. 1030, d. 1096; m. Emma de Port; father of Alan de Percy who m. Emma de Gand. [WFt Vol 7 Ped 2364]  According to Burke, William de Percy who accompanied William the Conqueror into England in 1066 (sprang from Geoffrey, son of Mainfred, a Danish chieftain who assisted Rollo in 912 in subjugating Normandy. [StNeel]