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) )