PERCY

is the name of the family who came to England with William I. Richard de Percy helped to extort Magna Charta from King John in 12x5 and Henry, Lord Percy, was Marshal of England at; the coronation of Richard II., but he fought against him and Henry IV., and he and his son ‘Hotspur’ were killed while fighting against Henry. His grandson PETER Henry fell at St. Albans (1453), and the latter's son fell at Towton. Josceline, the eleventh Earl, died without a son, so the present Duke represents the female line of the house.