Other Events:

• Will: 24 June 1538

Notes:

Will:
She directed that her heart be buried at the Greyfriars, London, and her body at the Greyfriars, Bristol.

Eleanor married Edward (Stafford), 3rd Duke of Buckingham circa 14 Dec. 1490. Edward (son of Henry (Stafford), 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Lady Katharine Woodville) was born on 3 Feb. 1477/78 in Brecknock Castle, Brecknock, Brecknockshire, Wales; died on 17 May 1521 in Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Austin Friars, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henry (Stafford), 1st Baron Stafford was born on 18 Sept. 1501 in Penshurst, Kent, England; died on 30 April 1563 in Caus Castle, Westbury, Shropshire, England; was buried on 6 May 1563 in Worthen, Shropshire, England.
2. Lady Catherine Stafford died on 14 May 1555 in Holywell, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England; was buried on 17 May 1555 in St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.
3. Lady Mary Stafford

Other Events:

• Office: 24 June 1470; Warden of the East and Middle Marches
• Office: 1474; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
• Office: 14 Aug. 1474; Sheriff of Northumberland
• Decoration: 18 Aug. 1474; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Will: 27 July 1485
• Office: 30 Nov. 1483 – 22 Aug. 1485; Lord Great Chamberlain of England
• Hereditary Title: 25 March 1470 – 28 April 1489; 4th Earl of Northumberland [E., 1377 or 1416]
• Hereditary Title: Feb. 1483/84 – 28 April 1489; Lord Poynings [E., 1337]
• Probate: 9 Aug. 1491

Notes:

When the Earldom of Northumberland was granted to "Sir John Neville of Montagu, Knight," in May 1464, Percy was committed to the Fleet prison, and removed, after September 1465, to the Tower, whence he was discharged 27 October 1469, having done fealty to Edward IV.

In 1467–8 he was in the charge of the Earl of Pembroke, and living in his house.

Following his discharge from the Tower, he appears to have remained in touch with the King until the Earldom was restored to him at York, 25 March 1470.

The following day, as Sir Henry Percy, Kt., he had a grant of the custody of his father's forfeited estates in Yorkshire, Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and London. Neville had surrendered his grant so far as it concerned Northumberland, by the King's command, 22 February.

The Earl recovered possession as from 2 March 1469/70 (possibly the date of his coming of age), by the Act reversing his father's attainder, 1472.

He attended a Council at Canterbury in June 1470.

On 24 June 1470, as Henry Percy, son of the late Earl, he was constituted Warden of the East and Middle Marches towards Scotland, three months before Edward IV's flight. He was so constituted by patent dated 17 July; a patent of the following day calls him Earl of Northumberland.

He retained the Wardenship under successive Kings till his death.

He held numerous other official appointments in the North—e.g. Commissioner to treat with the Scots, 1471–73, 1483, 1484, 1488; of array in the Northern counties, 1472; Justice of the Forests North of Trent and constable of Bamborough Castle, 5 June 1471; constable of Dunstanborough and Knaresborough Castles; constable and porter of the castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5 March 1473/74. By Henry VII he was made bailiff of Tyndale, Northumberland, in 1486.

On his return in 1471, Edward IV, landing in the North, produced a letter, as of summons, from the restored Earl, which eased his progress towards recapture of the throne.

In 1475 he took part in Edward IV's expedition to France.

He was in command at the capture of Berwick, 1482, and made Governor thereof, 1483. His prowess was commended by the Commons in Parliament.

He bore the sword Curtana at the Coronation of Richard III, 7 July 1483.

He deserted Richard III on Bosworth Field.

Office:
"The Earl was made sheriff of Northumberland for life, 14 Aug. 1474, and (by Henry VII) during pleasure, 12 Feb. 1487/8."

Hereditary Title:
"The death of his mother, in Feb. 1483/4, made him, according to modern doctrine, Lord Poynings [1337]."

Died:
"Being employed to levy in the North an unpopular tax and to inquire into disturbances in the city of York, he was murdered by the rabble at his manor house, Cock Lodge, near Topcliffe, Yorks, 28 Apr. 1489, aged about 40 ..."

Henry married Lady Maud Herbert circa 1476. Maud (daughter of William (Herbert), 1st Earl of Pembroke and Anne Devereux) died before 27 July 1485; was buried in Beverley Minster, Beverley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
For an account of the opening of her tomb, 15 September 1671, see Gough's Sepul. Mon., volume ii, pt. 3, page 311, and Allen's Hist. of York, volume ii, page 158.

Other Events:

• Decoration: 19 May 1426; Knighthood
• Hereditary Title: 1446; jure uxoris Lord Poynings [E., 1337]

Notes:

He was attainted 4 November 1461, and the attainder was reversed in the Parliament of 1472–73 upon his son's petition.

Hereditary Title:
He was summoned to Parliament, vita patris, from 14 December (1446) 25 Hen. VI to 26 May (1455) 33 Hen. VI, by writs directed Henrico de Percy ch[ivale]r Domino de Ponynges.

Died:
He was slain ex parte Regis Henrici at the Battle of Towton.

Henry married Eleanor (Poynings), de jure suo jure Baroness Poynings On or before 25 June 1435. Eleanor (daughter of Hon. Sir Richard de Poynings and Eleanor Berkeley) was born circa 1422; died in Feb. 1483/84. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 2 Oct. 1446 – Feb. 1483/84; de jure suo jure (5th) Baroness Poynings [E., 1337 or 1348]

Notes:

She and her husband had licence to enter into her inheritance in November 1446.

William married Anne Devereux. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was taken by his grandfather, shortly after the death of Hotspur (his father), to Scotland, where he remained in the care of the Duke of Albany for about 10 years.

Died:
He was slain ex parte Regis at the first Battle of St. Albans.

Henry married Lady Eleanor Neville after Oct. 1414 in Berwick, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Decoration: by 1423; Knighthood
• Office: 1423; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Sussex
• Will: 20 July 1428
• Probate: 31 Oct. 1430

Notes:

In October 1428 he was taking musters near Orleans, and was killed there, 10 June 1429.

Will:
His will, dated 20 July 1428, proven 31 October 1430 (P.C.C., Luffenam 14), directs burial before the west door in Poynings churchyard, and mentions three (unnamed) children, evidently two sons and a daughter. See also a will drawn up 13 July, printed in Coll. Top. et Gen., volume iii, page 259.

Probate:
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.), Luffenam 14.

Richard married Eleanor Berkeley. Eleanor (daughter of Sir John Berkeley and Elizabeth Betteshorne) died on 1 Aug. 1455. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Will: 20 July 1455
• Probate: 23 Aug. 1455

Notes:

Will:
Her will, dated 20 July, proven 23 August 1455 (P.C.C., Stokton 3—Abstract in Test. Vetusta, page 277), directs burial with her first husband at Arundel. See Sussex Arch. Coll., volume lxxvi, page 64; Gough, Sepulchral Monuments, volume ii, plates 22, 45.

Probate:
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.), Stokton 3.