Thomas PERCY, 6th Earlo Northumberland^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

1504 - 1537  (32 years)

• Name	Thomas PERCY  [6]
  Suffix	6th Earlo Northumberland
  Birth	4 Nov 1504	Alnwick, Northumberland, England   [6]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Thomas Percy  [7]
  _FSFTID	GGZS-SQ7
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GGZS-SQ7
  _UID	2CB6255F18A1475F93A87EF84F01C574FFA4
  Burial	1537	Church of the Crutched Friars, London, City of London, Greater London, England   [6]
  Death	2 Jun 1537	Hackney, Greater London, England   [6]
  Person ID	I4976	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	Henry Algernon PERCY,   b. 13 Jan 1477, Alnwick, Northumberland, England d. 19 May 1527, Wressell, East Riding, Yorkshire, England (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Catherine SPENCER,   b. 1477, Northumberland, England d. Oct 1542, Yorkshire, England (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	1492	England
  Family ID	F2528	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Eleanor HARBOTTLE,   b. Abt 1505, Beamish, Durham, England d. Abt 1567 (Age ~ 62 years)
  Marriage	1520	Durham, England
  Children	1. Guiscard PERCY,   b. Abt 1526   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Richard PERCY,   b. Abt 1527   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Thomas PERCY,   b. 10 Jun 1528, Newborn Manor Petworth, Sussex, England d. 22 Aug 1572, York, Yorkshire, England (Age 44 years)   4. Mary PERCY,   b. 1532, Alnwick, Northumberland, England d. 7 Feb 1598, Northumberland, England (Age 66 years)   5. Henry PERCY,   b. 1532, Northumberland, England d. 21 Jun 1585, Tower Of London, London, Middlesex, England (Age 53 years)   6. Catherine PERCY,   b. 1534, Petworth, Sussex, England d. 17 Dec 1598, Riding, Northumberland, England (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F2499	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Dec 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Eleanor Wygardesdr. of Guicarde HARBOTTEL OF BEAMISCH,   b. 16 May 1501, Beamish, County Durham, England, d. 18 May 1566, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F536732819	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Biography Thomas Percy was born in Northumberland, England. Birth Thomas Percy was born circa 1504 at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, the second son of Henry, 5th Earl of Northumberland and Lady Catherine (Spencer) Percy, daughter of Sir Robert Spencer and Eleanor Beaufort.[1][2] This marriage produced four children in addition to Thomas: Henry (6th Earl of Northumberland) (1502-1537), Ingelgram (c. 1506-1538), Margaret (c. 1500/1502-1540), and Maud.[3][4] Marriage Thomas Percy married Eleanor Harbottal, daughter of Guiscard Harbottal of Beamish, County Durham, who died in the Battle of Flodden and Jane Willoughby. While the date and location of this marriage is unknown, Thomas and Eleanor had issue that included Thomas, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528), Henry, 8th Earl of Northumberland, Guiscard (who died in childhood), Richard, Mary (wife of Sir Francis Slingsby), and possibly Catherine.[5][6][7] Thomas also produced an illegitimate daughter named Jane, who married Charles Bulkely of White Parish, Wilts, England.[8] Notable Events Thomas's youth was an example of extremes, characterized by ostentatious wealth and subsequent financial hardship, which had plagued Thomas's father for many years. Due in large to his father's squandering of his vast wealth at Court, he destroyed his reputation not only amongst his peers, but among even his own vassals and tenants, where it was noted that "the Earl of Northumberland was not regarded of his owne tenaunts, which disdained him and his blode, and much lamented his foly."[9] By 1517, when Thomas was 13 years old, his father, Henry, was a broken man who had failed his responsibilities and had dragged his family into financial ruin. He lost the prestige that had once characterized him as the "Magnificent Earl" and brought shame upon the name of Percy. At the time of the 5th Earl of Northumberland's death, he had a mere £14 and money had to be borrowed to cover the funeral expenses of this once great man, using what was left of his plate as collateral. He likewise owed £7,000 to private parties and arrearages of £10,049 to the Crown.[10] Thomas certainly experienced both the best and worst of worlds as he grew to maturity and it likely influenced his character for the remainder of his adult life. While little is known of the type of man Thomas became, he and his brother Ingelgram were noted as stalwart soldiers born and bred of the north, with either preferred by their father to have been heir and successor to his earldom. This, however, was not to be, despite their father's threats to disinherit his oldest son, the weak and sickly Henry, 6th Earl of Northumberland.[11] By 1522, Thomas, aged 18, and his brother Ingelgram were fighting on the northern marches under the supervision of their uncle, Sir William Percy. It was during an attack on the Scottish border, where both Thomas and his brother participated, that ruffian Lance Carr was killed and his son and heir captured and brought to England. By this time, Thomas and his brother were already knighted, despite neither having attained his majority. Demanded by the king that the marchmen "make a [Scottish] raid at least once a week while the grass is on the ground," Thomas gained valuable experience in the art of war.[12] As an adult, Thomas held several commissions under his brother Henry, eldest son and sixth Earl of Northumberland. He was also receiver of his brother's revenues in southern Northumberland, where he occasionally resided at Newburn Hall until his involvement in the Pilgrimage of Grace, where he was one of the unfortunate principals appointed to represent the disaffected commoners.[13][14] It was during the rise of this insurrection in October of 1536, while residing at Seamer, in Yorkshire, England, that Thomas, not seeking to be part of this conflict fled for his mother's castle at Wresil.[15] Upon his arrival, however, he was intercepted by insurgents who through either coercion, entreaty, or both convinced him, as well as other nobles, to join their cause. Although the northern revolts were initially strikes against the imperious rule of Henry VIII and his posture toward the Catholic Church and its monasteries, the focus was more specifically on Thomas Cromwell, who, it was believed, was corrupting the king's mind, as well as increasing government control of northern England and its agricultural lands.[16] While the king subsequently placated the insurgents through a general pardon in order to quell the rebellion, he later seized upon the primary leaders, one of whom was Thomas Percy. While initially pleading "not guilty," at his trial, he later changed his plea to "guilty" as an act of contrition to the monarch. But it was for naught, as he was subsequently arraigned at Westminster before the High Steward, Henry Courtney Marquis of Exeter, and was sentenced to death, to be executed at Tyburn and attainted, along with other members of the leadership party.[17][18] It was during this fall from grace that Thomas's elder brother Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland had been persuaded to leave his estates to King Henry VIII and in failing health died shortly after his brother's execution on 29 June 1537. Henry's nephew, Thomas (son of Thomas), was later restored to blood by Queen Mary and became the 7th Earl of Northumberland, to be later succeeded by his younger brother, from whom all later Earls and Dukes of Northumberland were descended.[19] Death Sir Thomas Percy died 2 June 1537, having been convicted of treason, whereby he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. He was buried in the Crutched Friars' Church in London.[20][21]

  
  

• Sources

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