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The Honourable William Henry Percy (24 March 1788 – 5 October 1855) was a British Royal Navy officer and politician.
Biografia. Era il terzo figlio di Henry Percy, VIII conte di Northumberland (c.1532–1585) e di sua moglie Katharine Neville (1545/6–1596).
Sir Henry Percy KG (20 May 1364 – 21 July 1403), nicknamed Hotspur or Harry Hotspur, was an English knight who fought in several campaigns against the Scots in the northern border and against the French during the Hundred Years' War.
La famiglia discendeva dal francese William de Percy che arrivò, forse, in Inghilterra con Guglielmo I al principio del dicembre 1067 e ristrutturò il Castello di York nel 1070 . Il nome trae origine, forse, dal villaggio di Percy-en-Auge in Normandia, la dimora della famiglia al tempo della conquista normanna [1].
16 mag 2024 · Sir Henry Percy, English rebel who led the most serious of the uprisings against King Henry IV (reigned 1399–1413). His fame rests to a large extent on his inclusion as a major character in William Shakespeare’s Henry IV.
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Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, KG (c. 1502 – 1537) was an English nobleman, active as a military officer in the north. [1] He is now primarily remembered as the betrothed of Anne Boleyn, whom he was forced to give up before she became involved with and later married King Henry VIII.
L'onorevole William Henry Percy (24 marzo 1788 - 5 ottobre 1855) è un ufficiale della Royal Navy e un politico britannico. Biografia. È il sesto figlio di Algernon Percy (1 ° conte di Beverley) e sua moglie, Isabella Susannah Burrell, figlia di Peter Burrell.
