Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland^{[1, 2]}

Abt 1532 - 1585  (53 years)

• Name	Henry Percy
  Suffix	8th Earl of Northumberland
  Birth	Abt 1532	Petworth, Sussex, England
  Gender	Male
  Acceded	1572
  Death	21 Jun 1585	Tower of London
  	Cause: found dead in bed, slain by three bullets from a pistol
  Notes	http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal32806 The Complete Peerage vol.X,p.465. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PERCY.htm#Henry%20PERCY%20(8º%20E.%20Northumberland) «u»«b»See his Biography«/b» <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/HenryPercy(8ENorthumberland).htm>«/u». English Protestant member of the predominantly Roman Catholic Percy family, who nevertheless died in their cause. Brother of the 7th Earl, Henry Percy served both Mary I and Elizabeth I in several capacities. During the northern rebellion, in which his brother was a leading agent, he was on the royal side, vigorously attacking the rebels. After his brother's execution in 1572, Elizabeth permitted him to assume the title of earl of Northumberland. Nevertheless, family persuasions eventually overcame his loyalty, and he began intriguing for the escape of Mary, Queen of Scots, from imprisonment. Under suspicion, he was seized and lodged in the Tower of London for 18 months (1571–73), then released and gradually returned to favour. He was associated with the conspiracies of Francis Throckmorton <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9072299/Francis-Throckmorton> (q.v.) and other Catholic agents and again sent to the Tower (September 1582), to be released after a few weeks. New intrigues brought him to the Tower a third time (December 1584), where six months later he was found dead, shot through the heart. The official verdict, probably accurate, was suicide. Northumberland, Henry Percy, 8th earl of." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2 Jan. 2008 <<http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9056275>>.
  Person ID	I48148	Glenn Cook Family
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2008

  
  

  Father	Sir Thomas Percy,   b. Abt 1504, Alnwick, Northumberland, England d. 2 Jun 1537, Tyburn (Age 33 years)
  Mother	Eleanor Harbottle,   b. 1504, Beamish, England d. 18 May 1566 (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F551610959	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Neville   d. 28 Oct 1596
  Marriage	Bef 25 Jan 1562
  Children	1. Sir Alan Percy   d. 1613   2. Henry Percy, 9th Earl Northumberland,   b. 27 Apr 1564, Tynemouth Castle d. 5 Nov 1632 (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F551611847	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2008

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett). [S27] http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/.