Agnes de Percy

• Preferred Name: Agnes de Percy^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Alternate Name: Agnes de Percy Baroness Percy
  
• Gender: F
  
• Death: BEF 13 OCT 1204 in Heyshott, Sussex, England at LATI: N0.9553 LONG: E0.7224
  
• Burial: in Whitby Abbey, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England at LATI: N4.4867 LONG: E0.6305 with note: Find a Grave memorial #93185226
  
• FSID: LZN3-G5Y
  
• Birth: 1134 in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England at LATI: N4.4856 LONG: E0.6154
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  *Joscelin of Leuven was a Brabantian nobleman who married an English heiress, Agnes de Percy, and settled in England. He took the name Percy.
  
  AGNES de Percy (-[1202/13 Oct 1204]). A manuscript genealogy of the Percy family names “Matildem et Agnetem” as the daughters and heiresses of “Willielmus de Percy”, adding that Agnes married “Goselino Lovayn fratri Ducis Brabantiæ”. “Mathildis de Percy comitissa de Warwic, filia Willielmi de Perci” donated property to Sawley abbey, for the souls of “…patris mei Willielmi de Percy et Adalidis de Tunbrige matris meæ et Alani de Percy fratris mei et Agnetis sororis meæ”, by undated charter. "Agnes de Perci…in viduetatis meæ" confirmed the donation of "ecclesiam de Samara" made by "Willelmus de Perci pater meus" to Whitby, for the soul of "Jocelini mariti mei defuncti", by undated charter. “Agnes de Percy” confirmed donations of property by “Matildis comitissa de Warwicke soror mea” to Sawley abbey, for the souls of “Jocelini quondam sponsi mei et Willielmi de Percy patris mei et Adelidis de Tunebrigge matris meæ”, by undated charter, witnessed by “…W. de Percy…”. “Agnes de Percy” made a grant to the hospital of St Peter, York, after the death of “sponsi mei Jocelini de Luvain”, by charter dated to [1182/85][1051]. m (after 1154) JOSCELIN de Louvain, [illegitimate] son of GODEFROI V "le Barbu" Duke of Lower Lotharingia, Comte de Louvain & his mistress
  
  William de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy (died 1174/5).
  1. Agnes de Percy, Baroness Percy (1134–1205) (daughter and co-heiress) holder of a moiety of the barony. She married Joscelin de Louvain (d. 1180/9) who was granted the manor of Petworth by his sister (Adeliza of Louvain)'s second husband William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.
  2. Maud de Percy, Baroness Percy (died 1204) (daughter and co-heiress), holder of a moiety of the barony. She married William de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick (died 1184), without children.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Percy
  -------------------------------------------------------By the reign of Henry II the family was represented by only an heiress, Agnes de Percy (died 1203) following the death of the third feudal baron. As her dowry contained the manor of Topcliffe in Yorkshire, Adeliza of Louvain, the widowed and remarried second wife of Henry I, arranged the marriage of Agnes with her own young half-brother, Joscelin of Louvain. After their wedding, the nobleman from the Duchy of Brabant in the Holy Roman Empire settled in England. He adopted the surname Percy and his descendants were later created Earls of Northumberland.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Percy
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  Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
  Agnes de Percy
  b. 1134, d. before 13 October 1204
  Father William de Percy b. 1112, d. a 1175
  Mother Adeliza (Alice) de Tunbridge3 b. 1108, d. 1148
  Agnes de Percy was born in 1134 at Alnwick, Northumberland, England. She married Joscelin de Louvain, Baron Percy, son of Godfrey I 'the Bearded', Duke of Lorraine, Count of Brabant & Louvaine, Marquis of Antwerp, between 1154 and 1161; They had 4 sons (Henry; Sir Richard; Walter; & Ralph) & 4 daughters (Maud, wife of John d'Eiville; Lucy, a nun at St iswould Priory; Eleanor; & Alice).2 Agnes de Percy died before 13 October 1204 at of Petworth & Heyshott, Sussex, England; Buried in the Chapter house at Whitby.
  
  Family
  Joscelin de Louvain, Baron Percy b. c 1130, d. 1180
  Children
  Maud de Louvain+4,2
  Sir Henry Percy+2 b. 1160, d. 1198
  Richard de Percy+ b. b 1181, d. Aug 1244
  Sir Walter
  Sir Ralph
  Lucy
  Eleanor
  Alice
  
  Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#WilliamPercydied1245B
  
  Joscelin of Louvain (1121–1180)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joscelin_of_Louvain
  
  Joscelin of Louvain (1121–1180) was a nobleman of the Duchy of Brabant who married an English heiress, Agnes de Percy (d.1203), one of the two co-heir
  
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  === This is copied from Pearce, Bartlett, M ===
  This is copied from Pearce, Bartlett, Matthews, Smart, and Allied Families, by James Alonzo Matthews. AGNES de PERCY married Joscleine de Lovain, youngest son of Godfrey, Count of Lovain and also a younger brother of Adeliza, Queen of Henry I, Sovereign of Brabant. She accepted him for her husband on the condition that he and his posterity should either assume the surname or bear the arms of PERCY and relinquish his own. He consented to the first. The learned Camden asserts that this famous family of PERCY is descended from the Earl of Brabant and inherited with that ancient surname the possessions also of Percy. From this illustrious couple are descended all the succeeding branches of the Percy family. They had issue: four sons, Richard, Henry, Robert, and Josceline, and two daughters, Eleanor and Alice. Richard, the eldest son, was one of the chief Barons who took up arms against the tyranny of King John and had a principal hand in extorting from that monarch the great charter of British liberties. He was chosen one of the twenty-five guardians to see it duly observed. The 6th of King John, on the death of his mother (she died that year), he had livery of all those lands in com. Ebor, whereof she died, seized; as also of those which Maud, Countess of Warwick, his aunt (his mother's sister) held of the Earl of Chester in fee. In the 2nd of Henry III, he was in arms for the king and he died without issue, whereby the inheritance devolved upon his brother Henry.
  
  === AGNES DE PERCY, daughter and coheir of W ===
  AGNES DE PERCY, daughter and coheir of William DE PERCY, by 1st wife, married, after 1154, Jocelin of Louvain, brother of Queen Adeliz, 2nd wife of Henry I. Before her death in 1151 Queen Adeliz and her second husband, William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel, gave to Jocelin the honor of Petworth, Sussex, as a dependency of her honor of Arundel. In 1166 Jocelin held 5 1/2 knights' fees among other tenants-in-chief in Yorks, and in 1172 paid 6 Ii. for scutage there. In December 1170 he was one of two knights sent to forbid Archbishop Becket's' approach to the young King's court; and he witnessed charters of Henry II at Argentan, Winchester, and Tours. He visited the Holy Land, probably circa 1174. From lands of the honor of Petworth he was a benefactor of Reading and Durford Abbeys, and of Lewes Priory; and from lands of the Percy fee a benefactor of Sixle Priory. With his son Henry he confirmed gifts made by William de Percy to Fountains Abbey. He presumably died in the year ending at Michaelmas 1180, when the honor of Petworth had passed into the King's hand. In 1182 Agnes de Percy, his widow, was a party to a final concord relating to land in Dalton, parish Topcliffe. At Michaelmas 1196 she paid 40 rnarks for having her scutage of 15 knights. To her (younger) son Richard she gave 5 knights' fees, with her demesne of Catton, and interests in Stamford Bridge, the city of York, and Ludford, Lincs. She was a benefactor of Byland Abbey, St. Peter's Hospital, York, and Kirkham, Nun Monkton, and Sixle Priories; and she confirmed a gift of her father's to Whitby Abbey. She was living in the year ending at Michaelmas 1202; and died before 13 October 1204. [Complete Peerage X:445-8]
  
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  Agnes de Percy m. Josceline, of Louvain, brother of Queen Adeliza, 2nd wife of Henry I, and son of Godfrey Barbatus, Duke of Lower Lorraine and Count of Brabant, who was descended from the Emperor Charlemagne. Her ladyship, it is stated, would only consent to this great alliance upon condition that Josceline should adopt either the surname or ams of Percy; the former of which, says the old family tradition,* he accordingly assumed, and retained his own paternal coat in order to perpetmacte his claim to the principality of his father, should the elder line of the reigning duke at any period become extinct. The matter is thus stated in the great old pedigree at Sion House: "The ancient arms of Hainault this Lord Josceline retained and gave his children the surname of Percie." Of this illustrious alliance there were several children, including Henry and Richard de Percy.
  
  * Mr. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe in his Old Heraldry of the Percys, considers this tradition erroneous in all respects, and is unable to discover any traces of the blue lion until the reign of Edward I. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 423, Percy, Barons Percy, Earls of Northumberland, &c.]

1. Maud de Percy, b. ABT 1168 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England     d. 1235 in Yorkshire, England
2. Muriel Amy de Lovaine, b. 1170 in England     d. 1275
3. Percy Henry, b. 20 SEP 1156 in Whitby, Yorkshire, England     d. 29 SEP 1198 in Saint Lô, Manche, Duchy of Normandy

1. Title: Agnes de Percy in Tudor Place
   Publication: Name: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PERCY.htm#Agnes%20De%20PERCY1;
   Note: Agnes De PERCY Died: BEF 13 Oct 1204 Father: William De PERCY (4º B. Percy) Mother: Alice De CLARE de Tonbridge Married: Joscelyn De LOUVAIN AFT 1154 Children: 1. Henry De PERCY 2. Richard De PERCY (5º B. Percy) 3. Ralph De PERCY 4. Joscelin De PERCY 5. Eleanor De PERCY 6. Alice De PERCY 7. Maud De PERCY
   Page: Relationships, marriage and death
   
2. Title: Wikipedia - Baron Percy
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Percy;
   
3. Title: Agnes de Percy (1134-1205), The Peerage
   Author: https://www.thepeerage.com/p15827.htm#i158268
   Publication: Name: https://www.thepeerage.com/p15827.htm#i158268;
   Note: Agnes de Percy was born in 1134 at Whitby, Yorkshire, EnglandG.1 She was the daughter of William de Percy and Alice de Tunbridge.1 She married Joscelin de Lorraine, son of Godefroi I de Louvain, Duc de Basse-Lorraine and Clementia de Bourgogne, circa 1154 at Egmanton, Yorkshire, EnglandG.1 She died circa 1205.1 Children of Agnes de Percy and Joscelin de Lorraine: Richard de Percy+2 d. a Aug 1244 Henry de Percy+1 b. c 1156, d. b 29 Sep 1198
   
4. Title: Wikipedia - Alnwick Castle
   Author: https://www.alnwickcastle.com/explore/the-history/facts-figures
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnwick_Castle;
   Note: Alnwick Castle guards a road crossing the River Aln.[4] Yves de Vescy, Baron of Alnwick, erected the first parts of the castle in about 1096.[5] Beatrix de Vesci, daughter of Yves de Vescy married Eustace Fitz John, Constable of Chestershire and Knaresborough. By his marriage to Beatrix de Vesci he gained the Baronies of Malton and Alnwick. The castle was first mentioned in 1136 when it was captured by King David I of Scotland.[6] At this point it was described as "very strong".[4] It was besieged in 1172 and again in 1174 by William the Lion, King of Scotland and William was captured outside the walls during the Battle of Alnwick.[7] Eustace de Vesci, lord of Alnwick, was accused of plotting with Robert Fitzwalter against King John in 1212.[8] In response, John ordered the demolition of Alnwick Castle and Baynard's Castle (the latter was Fitzwalter's stronghold),[9] but his instructions were not carried out at Alnwick.[10] The castle had been founded in the late 11th century by Ivo de Vesci, a Norman nobleman from Vassy, Calvados in Normandy. A descendant of Ivo de Vesci, John de Vesci succeeded to his father's titles and estates upon his father's death in Gascony in 1253. These included the barony of Alnwick and a large property in Northumberland and considerable estates in Yorkshire, including Malton. As John was underage, King Henry III of England conferred the wardship of his estates to a foreign kinsman, which caused great offence to the de Vesci family. The family's property and estates had been put into the guardianship of Antony Bek, who sold them to the Percys. From this time the fortunes of the Percys, though they still held their Yorkshire lands and titles, were linked permanently with Alnwick and its castle and have been owned by the Percy family, the Earls and later Dukes of Northumberland since.[11] The stone castle Henry Percy bought was a modest affair, but he immediately began rebuilding. Though he did not live to see its completion, the construction programme turned Alnwick into a major fortress along the Anglo-Scottish border. His son, also called Henry (1299–1352), continued the building. The Abbot's Tower, the Middle Gateway and the Constable's Tower survive from this period.[11] The work at Alnwick Castle balanced military requirements with the family's residential needs. It set the template for castle renovations in the 14th century in northern England; several palace-fortresses, considered "extensive, opulent [and] theatrical" date from this period in the region, such as the castles of Bamburgh and Raby.[13] In 1345 the Percys acquired Warkworth Castle, also in Northumberland. Though Alnwick was considered more prestigious, Warkworth became the family's preferred residence.[14] The Percy family were powerful lords in northern England. Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408), rebelled against King Richard II and helped dethrone him. The earl and his son Harry Hotspur later rebelled against King Henry IV and after defeating Hotspur in the Battle of Shrewsbury, the king pursued the earl. The castle surrendered under the threat of bombardment in 1403.[15] ***************** Alnwick Castle.com -the history/facts and figures: 1096 the year construction on the castle is believed to have begun. 1309 home to the Percy family for over 700 years. 30km the distance between Alnwick Castle and the England - Scotland border. 1750 the date the Percy family returned to restore the Castle. 1766 the date the Percy family were elevated to Dukes by George III. 14,000 the number of catalogued books in the Library. 112 Castle staff and members of the Percy family went to fight in the First World War.
   
5. Title: Agnes de Percy (1134-1204), Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
   Author: Citations [S3061] Unknown author, Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 711, Vol. 3. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 344. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 343. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 530.
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p378.htm#i11332;
   Note: Agnes de Percy [1,2] Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 F, #11332, b. 1134, d. before 13 October 1204 Father William de Percy3 b. 1112, d. a 1175 Mother Adeliza (Alice) de Tunbridge3 b. c 1108, d. a 1148 Agnes de Percy was born in 1134 at * Whitby, Yorkshire, England. She married Joscelin de Louvain, Baron Percy, son of Godfrey I 'the Bearded', Duke of Lorraine, Count of Brabant & Louvaine, Marquis of Antwerp, between 1154 and 1161; They had 4 sons (Henry; Sir Richard; Walter; & Ralph) & 4 daughters (Maud, wife of John d'Eiville; Lucy, a nun at Stiswould Priory; Eleanor; & Alice).2 Agnes de Percy died before 13 October 1204 at of Petworth & Heyshott, Sussex, England; Buried in the Chapter house at Whitby.2 Family Joscelin de Louvain, Baron Percy b. c 1130, d. 1180 Children Maud de Louvain+4,2 Sir Henry Percy+2 b. 1160, d. 1198 Richard de Percy+ b. b 1181, d. Aug 1244 *The Percys did not occupy Alnwick, Northumberland until 1309
   
6. Title: Agnes de Percy (1134-1205), "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-M74Y : 10 September 2021), Agnes de Percy, ; Burial, Whitby, Scarborough Borough, North Yorkshire, England, Whitby Abbey; citing record ID 93185226, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLW-M74Y;
   Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93185226/agnes-de_percy Agnes de Percy BIRTH 1134 Whitby, Scarborough Borough, North Yorkshire, England DEATH 1205 (aged 70–71) Whitby, Scarborough Borough, North Yorkshire, England BURIAL Whitby Abbey Whitby, Scarborough Borough, North Yorkshire, England Show Map MEMORIAL ID 93185226 Agnes was the daughter of William de Percy and Alice (Adeliza) de Tunbridge. She married Joscelin de Louvain in 1154 at Egmanton, Nottinghamshire County, England.