Henry Percy

Also known as: Henrie Persie / Henrie lord Persie / lord Percie / sir Henrie Persie · Family: England · Role: lord marshal · First appears: Richard II 1

Life events

• c. 1377 · Henry Percy regained public favor through courteous conduct.(Richard II 1)
  • “they ordered the matter so, that neither this day, nor the morrow after, being the day of the kings coronation, they offended any maner of person, but rather by gentle and swéet demeanour they reclaimed the harts of manie”
• 1414 · Henry V restored Henry Percy to his lands and earldom of Northumberland.(Henry V 2)
  • With: Henry V
  • “the king therefore pitied his case, and so procured for him, that he came home, and was restored to all his lands and earledome of Northumberland”
• c. 1425 · The listed nobles were dubbed knights during the solemn feast.(Henry VI 9)
  • With: Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk John Butler James Butler Henry Grey of Tancarville John Talbot Ralph Grey of Werke Robert Vere Richard Grey Edmund Hungerford Walter Wingfield Reginald Cobham John Passheleu Thomas Tunstall John Chedocke Ralph Langstre William Drury William ap Thomas Richard Carnonell Richard Woodville John Shirdlow Nicholas Blunket William Cheyney William Babington Ralph Butler Robert Beauchamp Edmund Trafford John June
  • “During this feast, the duke of Bedford adorned the king with the high order of knighthood, who on the same daie dubbed with the sword these knights, whose names insue: Richard duke of Yorke, Iohn duke of Norffolke; the earle of Westmerland, Henrie lord Persie, Iohn lord Butler, sonne to the earle of Ormond, the lord Rosse, the lord Matrauers, the lord Welles, the lord Barkelie; sir Iames Butler, sir Henrie Greie of Tankaruile, sir Iohn Talbot, sir Rafe Greie of Warke, sir Robert Véere, sir Richard Greie, sir Edmund Hungerford, sir Walter Wingfield, sir Iohn Butler, sir Reginald Cobham, sir Iohn Passheleu, sir Thomas Tunstall, sir Iohn Chedocke, sir Rafe Langstre, sir William Drurie, sir William ap Thomas, sir Richard Carnonell, sir Richard Wooduile, sir Iohn Shirdlow, sir Nicholas Blunket, sir William Cheinie iustice, sir William Babington, sir Rafe Butler, sir Robert Beauchampe, sir Edmund Trafford, sir Iohn Iune chéefe baron, and diuerse others.”

Richard II 1

• sworn: Richard II (The surrounding passage identifies lord Henrie Percie as lord marshall in the king's coronation procession.) “the archbishop came vnto him, and tearing his garments from the highest part to the lowest, stripped him to his shirt.”

Richard II 74

• allies with Henry IV “At his comming vnto Doncaster, the earle of Northumberland, and his sonne sir Henrie Persie, wardens of the marches against Scotland, with the earle of Westmerland, came vnto him”

Henry IV 2

• sworn: Henry IV “the new king lodged in the Tower, and there made fortie & six knights of the Bath, to wit: thrée of his sonnes, the earle of Arundell, the earle of Warwike his sonne, the earle of Stafford, two of the earle of Deuonshires sonnes, the lord Beaumont, the lord Willoughbies brother, the earle of Staffords brother, the lord Camois his sonne, the lord of Maule, Thomas Beauchampe, Thomas Pelham, Iohn Luttrell, Iohn Lisleie, William Haukeford iustice, William Brinchleie iustice, Bartholomew Rathford, Giles Daubenie, William Butler, Iohn Ashton, Richard Sanape, Iohn Tiptost, Richard Francis, Henrie Persie, Iohn Arundell, William Strall, Iohn Turpington, Ailmer Saint, Edward Hastings, Iohn Greisleie, Gerald Satill, Iohn Arden, Robert Chalons, Thomas Dimocke, Hungerford, Gibethorpe, Newport, and diuerse other, to the number of fortie and six.”

Henry V 2

• sworn: Henry V “the king therefore pitied his case, and so procured for him, that he came home, and was restored to all his lands and earledome of Northumberland, which lands before had béene giuen to Iohn, the kings brother.”
• parent: Hotspur “Henrie Persie then but a child, sonne to the lord Henrie Persie surnamed Hotspur, after his fathers deceasse, that was slaine at Shrewesburie field”

Henry V 6

• enemies with Henry V “Henrie Persie, togither with a great multitude of people to fight with the king, and him to destroie in open field”

Henry VI 9

• sworn: Henry VI “the earle of Westmerland, Henrie lord Persie, Iohn lord Butler, sonne to the earle of Ormond”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.