Richard Percy

Sir Richard Percy of Alnwick Castle (* around 1426, † 1461 ) was an English knight .

Life

Sir Richard Percy of the House of Percy was the son of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Eleanor Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland .

Richard Percy was a driving force with his brother, Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont, in the feud between House Percy and House Neville that preceded the Wars of the Roses.

The 1452 by King Heinrich VI. used Commission under the leadership of William Lucy should these battles put an end to all interested parties were invited by the king to refrain from illegal activities and provide follow Sir William Lucy.

On August 24, 1453, Richard Percy and Lord Egremont and their husbands ambushed Thomas Neville's wedding party on their way home near York , resulting in a skirmish known as the Skirmish of Heworth . In the following months Richard Percy committed a number of attacks, assaults, vandalism and similar actions against lands and possessions of the Nevilles, for example on September 9, 1453, where he and some men entered the church of Gargrave and a tenant of the Nevilles, Lawrence Catterall, wanted to murder. One source reports that this could only be prevented by the courageous intervention of the vicar, according to another source Lawrence Catterall was captured by Percy and imprisoned in Cockermouth Castle . In May 1454 Richard Percy, along with his brother Thomas and Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, recruited men for a rebellion against Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York , who was Lord Protector at the time . You were quoted for this in June 1454 under threat of ostracism from the Privy Council and the Lord Chancellor , Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury.

At the end of October 1454 the armies of the Percies and Nevilles met near an estate of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury in Yorkshire , called Stamford Bridge , where the Nevilles succeeded in capturing Richard and Thomas Percy. The two Percy brothers were first taken to Middleham Castle , then handed over to Richard, Duke of York's custody. A commission set up sentenced Richard and Thomas Percy to heavy fines and were subsequently imprisoned in Newgate Prison .

Richard Percy and his brother remained imprisoned until November 1456, when they escaped on November 13th. In July 1457 Richard was tracked down by the Nevilles and imprisoned again in Middleham Castle, but shortly afterwards released or, according to another source, he escaped.

In the further course of the Wars of the Roses Richard Percy fought for the House of Lancaster in 1460 at the Battle of Northampton and Wakefield and in 1461 at the Second Battles of St Albans and Towton . On December 30, 1460 Richard Percy was in Wakefield by his brother, Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland , the accolade .

Sir Richard died on March 29, 1461 at the Battle of Towton.

Marriage and offspring

Sir Richard was married to Catherine, daughter of Sir Henry Neville of Thornton

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} John Sandler: The Red Rose and the White: The Wars of the Roses 1453–1487. Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-317-90518-9 , pp. 46-48, 50-51.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Ralph A. Griffiths: King and Country: England and Wales in Fifteen Century. A&C Black, 1964, ISBN 1-85285-018-3 , pp. 323, 348, 351, 352, 354.
3. ^ Harris Nicholas: Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England. Vol. VI, London 1837, pp. Xxl, 154, 191.
4. ^ ^{A b c d} William E. Baumgaertner: A Time Line of Fifteen-Century England 1398–1509. Trafford Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4269-0638-1 .
5. ^ ^{A b c d} John A. Wagner: Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses. ABC-CLIO, 2001, ISBN 1-85109-358-3 , pp. 121, 186-187.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} David Grummitt: Henry VI. Routeledge, 2015, ISBN 978-1-317-48260-4 .
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Bertram P. Wolffle: Henry VI. Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-300-08926-0 , pp. 274, 282.
8. ^ ^{A b c d e f g} William E. Baumgaertner: Squires, Knights, Barons, Kings: War and Politics in Fifteenth Century England. Trafford Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4269-0771-5 .
9. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Hicks: Warwick the Kingmaker. John Wiley & Sons, 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-75193-0 , pp. 96, 121, 134.
10. ↑ ^{a b} David Grummitt: A Short History of the Wars of the Roses. IB Tauris, 2014, ISBN 978-0-85773-303-0 , p. 37.
11. ^ ^{A b} Mary Ann Hookham: The Life and Time of Margaret of Anjou. Tinsley Brothers, London 1872, pp. 31, 42, 43.
12. ^ ^{A b c d e} Towton Battlefield Society
13. ↑ ^{a b} Richard III. Foundation Inc. ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ^ ^{A b} John Ashdown-Hill: The Mythology of Richard III. Amberley Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4456-4473-8 .
15. ^ ^{A b} Richard Brooke: Visits to the Fields of Battle in England. John R. Smith, London 1837, p. 106.
16. ^ William A. Shaw: The Knights of England. Genealogical Publishing Com, 1971, ISBN 0-8063-0443-X , p. 12.
17. ↑ Arthur Collins: The Peerage of England. Vol. V, London 1768, p. 391.
18. ↑ Surtees Society: Testamenta Eboracensia. Vol. III, Andrew + Co, Durham 1865, p. 211.