• General Notes

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  There was, perhaps, no more illustrious house of English nobility than that of Percy. Both in the age of chivalry, and in the so-called "Renaissance" or Reformation period, the house of Northumberland occupied a position of great, if not paramount, importance. The Percies were Catholic, but not Ultramontane; Monarchial, but steadfast opponents of tyrants; they contributed more than their share to the development of the National Church and Constitution. Heroes in war, pioneers of learning, martyrs for religion, are all represented by Percies; while from the earliest period there has been no grander title than that of King or Earl of Northumbria.
  Tradition bestows upon these lords of Percie a remote Scandinavian origin, and monkish historians afterwards traced the house from those old Danish sea-rovers who harried every European shore from Shannon to the mouth of the Tiber. In the words of Dugdale: This ancient and right noble family do derive their descent from Mainfred de Percy, which Mainfred came out of Denmark into Normandy before the advent of the famous Rollo there. And another chronicler of the 15th century tells us that a son of this Mainfred, the Viking, was one of those who fought side by side with Rollo, 1st Duke of Normandy. Mainfred, who came out of Denmark into Normandy before the advent of Duke Rollo, who gained possession of Normandy in 911. Sources for Percy Family:
  History of House of Percy, by Brenan; author's preface, p. XVII;
  Introduction. Charts pp. 6 and 168, pages 1 to 93;
  Edmondson Baronagium Genealogicum, Vol. 3, pp. 269-270. ;
  Collins Peerage of England, Vol. 2, p. 240; Vol. 3, pp. 217-273;
  Clay's Dormant and Extinct Peerage, pp. 21-24;
  Harleian Society Publications, Visitation of Cheshire, Vol. 18, p. 140;
  Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Vol. 3, pp. 306, 363, 394;
  Burke's Landed Gentry (1939), Americans of British Ancestry,
  Vol. 3, pp. 2759-60.
  
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     1. Title: scary.ged
        Author: Susan (Poliksa) Cary scary @ infowest.com
        Publication: RootsWeb World Connect, db=poliksa
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        Text: Date of Import: Oct 3, 2001 

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