Margaret Percy

Personal and Family Information

Margaret was born before 1447, the daughter of Henry Percy and Eleanor Poynings. The place is not known.

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

Events

Notes

Note 1

!Source: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Percy,_3rd_Earl_of_Northumberland

Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, was an English magnate.

The Earldom of Northumberland was then one of the greatest landholdings in northern England; Percy also became Lord Poynings on his marriage. This title would bring him into direct conflict with the Poynings family themselves, and indeed, feuds with neighbouring nobles, both lay and ecclesiastical, would be a key occupancy of his youth.

Percy married Eleanor Poynings, who outlived him; together they had five children. He was a leading Lancastrian during the Wars of the Roses, from which he managed to personally benefit, although his father died early in the war. He was not, however, to live to enjoy these gains, being killed at the Battle of Towton in 1461 on the defeated Lancastrian side.

Early life and war with Scotland

Percy was the son of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, and Lady Eleanor Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and his second wife, Joan Beaufort.[b]

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Family

On or before 25 June 1435, by the arrangement in 1434 of his father and Cardinal Beaufort,[4] he married Eleanor Poynings , suo jure Baroness Poynings, daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Poynings of Poynings in Sussex, by his second wife Eleanor Berkeley, a daughter of Sir John Berkeley of Beverston Castle in Gloucestershire.[34] In 1446 she became heir general to her grandfather Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings ,[35] inherited his title of Baron Poynings and his large estates across the south of England.[4] He was summoned to Parliament from 14 December 1446 to 26 May 1455, by writs directed Henrico de Percy, chivaler, domino de Ponynges . His wife was a legatee in the 1455 will of her mother, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel . They had at least one son and four daughters:[35]

Anne Percy , who married Sir Thomas Hungerford in 1460.[36]

Margaret Percy , who married Sir William Gascoigne[37]

Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland , who married Maud Herbert, daughter of the first Earl of Pembroke.[38]

Eleanor Percy , who married Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr; they had no children.

Elizabeth Percy , who married Henry Scrope, 6th Baron Scrope of Bolton.[35]