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Richard de Percy



Family 1: Agnes de Néville,    b. 1221 in Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England    d. ABT 20 JUL 1293 in Blankney, Lincolnshire, England
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  1. Title: Wikisource - Dictionary of National Biography
    Author: [Besides authorities cited in the text, see De Fonblanque's Annals of the House of Percy, 1887, i. 36 sq. and 482–7 (appendix); Dugdale's Baronage of England, 1675, i. 271; Banks's Dormant and Extinct Baronetage, ii. 415.]
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Percy,_Richard_de;
    Note: PERCY, RICHARD de, fifth Baron Percy (1170?–1244), born about 1170, was second son of Agnes, heiress of the original Percy family, and Josceline de Louvain, a younger son of Godfrey, duke of Brabant, who took his wife's name on his marriage. Richard is said to have taken a prominent part in the vehement opposition of the northern barons to the proposed sale of Northumberland to William the Lion in 1194. In 1196 Percy's elder brother Henry died, leaving a son William (1183?–1245) [q. v.], in his fifteenth year. Percy assumed administration of his nephew's lands and the baronial rights as fifth baron Percy, though the officially appointed guardian of the minor was William Brewer (d. 1226) [q. v.] In the same year his mother Agnes died, and he seized her lands, while he received the lands of his aunt the Countess of Warwick by bequest. After his nephew had attained his majority, Richard retained his property. A long litigation between the two was not concluded till 1234, when it was decided that Richard should hold the moiety of the Percy estates bequeathed to him by the Countess of Warwick, but at his death the whole property was to revert to William. Percy was one of the northern barons who began the struggle which ended in the signing of Magna Charta by refusing to accompany the king to France in 1213 (Stubbs, i. 580; Rog. Wend. Rolls Ser. ii. 114). On 7 May 1215 he and some others made an attempt to treat with the king (Patent Rolls, 17 John, Record Comm. p. 180); he was one of the twenty-five executors of Magna Charta (Stubbs, i. 582), and he was excommunicated by Innocent III by name on 26 Dec. In 1216 he and other northern barons reduced Yorkshire to the obedience of Louis of France (Rog. Wend. ii. 169, 190). On 11 May 1217 Henry III granted Percy's lands to his nephew William. But they were restored by the king on Percy's submission on 2 Nov. (Close Rolls, Record Comm. i. 308, 339). Percy helped to besiege Ralph de Gaugi in Newark Castle in 1218 (ib. i. 379 b), and he was one of three barons charged with the destruction of Skipton Castle in 1221 (ib. p. 474). In 1236 he appears among the witnesses of the confirmation of the charters (Annals of Tewkesbury, i. 104). The year after, when in the parliament the barons prepared to deliberate apart on the king's demands, Gilbert Basset suggested to the king that he should send some of his friends to attend the conference. The words caught the ear of Richard de Percy, and he indignantly cried, ‘What did you say, friend Gilbert? Are we foreigners then, and not friends of the king?’ (Matt. Paris, Hist. Maj. iii. 381–2). He died before 18 Aug. 1244 (Excerpta e Rotulis Finium, Record ed. i. 421). The manor of Ludford was left by him to the priory of Sixhills (Rot. Cart. Joh. p. 159 b). On the death of his first wife, a sister of William Brewer, Percy married Agnes de Neville, by whom he had two sons, Henry and Alexander.
  2. Title: Wikipedia -Richard de Percy
    Author: References "Percy, Richard de" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Brenan, Gerald. Lindsay, W.A.edit.-A History of the House of Percy, II Vols. Freemantle, London 1902, Vol. I, p. 14 & 17
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_de_Percy;
    Note: Sir Richard de Percy (c. 1170–1244), 5th Baron Percy, was a Magnate from the North of England, and a participant in the First Barons' War.[1] He was the son of Agnes de Perci, suo jure Baroness Percy, the heiress of the Percy estates, and her husband Joscelin of Louvain (1121–1180), who was styled "brother of the queen" (referring to Adeliza of Louvain, second wife of Henry I).[1] It is from this marriage descends the House of Percy, following the assumption of the name Percy by Louvain.[1][2] Percy was one of the twenty five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. Along with his nephew William (c. 1183–1245), latterly the 6th Baron Percy, he was amongst the lords who rose in arms against King John and his estates declared forfeit.[1] Upon John's death Percy immediately made his peace with Henry III, and had his lands restored to him.[2] Baron Percy died in 1244, and is buried at Whitby Abbey.[2]
  3. Title: Wikitree - Richard de Percy (1181-1244)
    Author: Sources ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for 'Percy, Richard de', print and online 2004, revised online 2005, available online via some libraries ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Charles Cawley. Medieval Lands, entry for Richard de Percy at Joscelin de Louvain 2 ↑ 3.0 3.1 I J Sanders. English Baronies. A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1960, p. 148 ↑ 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry III, File 23', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 1, Henry III, ed. J E E S Sharp (London, 1904), pp. 122-129, British History Online, accessed 2 December 2021 ↑ Wikipedia: Richard de Percy Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for 'Percy, Richard de', print and online 2004, revised online 2005, available online via some libraries Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol. 44, pp. 428-429, entry for 'Percy, Richard de', Wikisource Cawley, Charles. "Medieval Lands": A
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Percy-388;
    Note: Biography Birth and Parentage Richard de Percy was born before 1181, when he is named in the Pipe Rolls.[1] His parents were Joscelin de Louvain and Agnes, who was heiress to the original Percies.[1][2] Life Richard's older brother Henry died in 1198, and, following his mother's death in 1202, Richard was able to claim her lands.[1] Among the lands he inherited was the Barony of Topcliffe, based in Yorkshire.[3] During the first years of the reign of King John, Richard often fought for him.[1] But in 1214 he refused to fight in France.[1] The following year he became one of the Surety Barons for the Magna Carta.[1][2] Along with others who rebelled against King John, he was excommunicated in December 1215.[1] he allied himself with the invasion forces of Louis, Dauphin of France, and in 1216 helped to secure Yorkshire for Louis.[1] In May 1217 Henry III gave Richard's lands to his nephew William, but they were restored by the end of that year.[1] In the 1220s he fought for Henry III.[1] Marriages; Illegitimate Son Richard married twice. His first wife was called Alice, but her origins are unknown.[1][2] His second wife was Agnes de Neville.[1][2] He had a son called Henry, who appears to have been illegitimate as Richard's main heir was his nephew William.[1][2][3] Death Richard died before 18 August 1244, and may have been buried in Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, of which he was a benefactor.[1] Inquisitions Post Mortem in the reign of Henry III for the substantial Yorkshire lands of Richard and his nephew William de Percy (they appear to be for both of them, probably because William inherited from Richard and they died in fairly quick succession) are undated, though some were endorsed in 43 Henry III (1258-9). The lands may not all have been Richard de Percy's: some may have been lands which William held independently. Among those holding lands of either or both Richard and William was a Henry de Percy, at Settle in Yorkshire, who may have been Richard's probably illegitimate son Henry, though he is not the only fairly closely-related Henry de Percy of this period. Also mentioned is a Peter de Percy holding land at Ilkley, Yorkshire.[4] Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Biography by Professor Nigel Saul "Richard de Percy (before 1181-1244) was the second son of Agnes, heiress of the original Percy family, and Jocelin de Louvain, a younger son of Godfrey, duke of Lorraine, and brother of Adeliza, second wife of Henry I. His background and parentage are illustrative of the cosmopolitanism of the Angevin world. "Early in John’s reign Richard served on military expeditions with or for the king, but as the community of northern lords of which he was part moved into opposition to the king, so he went along with them, and in 1214 he refused to join John’s Poitevin expedition. On 26 June 1215 he was excommunicated by the pope for his disobedience, and in the following year he and other Yorkshire lords went over to Louis, the French king’s son, the leader of the baronial armies. He only returned to the king’s peace in November 1217. "Richard married, first, Alice, of unknown parentage, and, on her death, Agnes de Neville. He died in 1244, before 18 August. In his lifetime he had been a benefactor of two Yorkshire abbeys, Sawley (or Salley) and Fountains, and he specified in a grant to Fountains that, if the arrangements specified in the grant were carried out, he was to be buried in that house. "A shadowy figure, he stands out less vividly than some of the northern lords with whom he was associated." ~ Biography courtesy of Professor Nigel Saul and the Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee)
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