Percy, Henry, Lord, 1364-1403
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Name (Hebrew)
פרסי, הנרי, 1364-1403
Name (Latin)
Percy, Henry, Lord, 1364-1403
Other forms of name
Hotspur, Harry, 1364-1403
Hotspur, Henry, Lord, 1364-1403
Northumberland, Earl of, 1364-1403
Piercy, Lord, 1364-1403
Date of birth
1364-05-20
Date of death
1403-07-21
Associated country
Great Britain
Occupation
Knights and knighthood
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Cokayne, G. Complete peerage, 1910:vol. 9, p. 713-4 (Sir Henry Percy, styled Lord Percy, but better known as Hotspur, s. and h. ap. of Henry de Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland; b. 1364; on Aug. 1388 he fought unsuccessfully, though Douglas was slain, the brilliant action at Otterburn, in which he and his brother Ralph were made prisoners; By June 1403 Hotspur was openly marching through Lancs. and Cheshire with a view to meeting Glendower, but was forced with only his own inferior forces to fight the King at Shrewsbury 21 July, and there was slain)
- Dixon, C. Harry Hotspur, 2017:p. 3 (Harry Hotspur was born, Henry Percy, on the 20th of May 1366 at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland; he was the eldest son and heir of Henry, 4th Lord Percy)
- Percy, Sir Henry, called Henry Hotspur; soldier, was born on 20 May 1364 at Alnwick; Knighted by Edward III in 1377; Percy served in Ireland with the earl of March in 1380, then travelled and crusaded in Prussia and Asia Minor during 1383; It was on the Scottish border, however, that he made his reputation and acquired his nickname, Hotspur, bestowed on him by the Scots as a tribute to his speed in advance and readiness to attack; Percy and his father sought to make good a royal grant to themselves of the Douglas estates in southern Scotland by besieging the fortress of Cocklaw, near Hawick, in May 1403; marched on Shrewsbury in order to engage the forces of Henry, prince of Wales; Arriving outside the town on 21 July, however, Hotspur found that the king was there before him; Hotspur himself, driving his way towards the royal standard, was struck down and killed ( (Oxford Dictionary of national biography WWW site, 4 Sep., 2017) )
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Harry Hotspur Percy
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Wikipedia description:
Sir Henry Percy (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. The nickname "Hotspur" was given to him by the Scots as a tribute to his speed in advance and readiness to attack. The heir to a leading noble family in northern England, Hotspur was one of the earliest and prime movers behind the deposition of King Richard II in favour of Henry Bolingbroke in 1399. He later fell out with the new regime and rebelled, and was slain at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 at the height of his fame.
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