The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-29
Finest plates made, SO. DR.. Wix.
THE PERCY FAMILY.
No Percys in 1t, and None for Centuries.
A Great English House. >

No Percys in 1t, and None for Centuries.
A Great English House.
From the New York Sun.
The duke of Northumberland, Alger-
non George Percy, who died the other
day, was the head of the house Of
Percy in England 1t was to this fam
lily that Harry Hotspur belonged, and
more recentlN another memberJ of it,
Earl Percy, made himself rather OBJ
noxious in this country during the rev.
oIution. 8Sy =
AS a matter of fact, the house of
Percy dido out nearly ZOO years ago,
long before Hotspur. Yet the estates
of the house lasted, and so the people of
whatever name who became possessed
of them took the name of Percy, and
like the major general in Pirates of
Penzance," respected their acquired an
cestors and endeavored with a good
deal of success to live up to them. For,
as even radical writer said III a book
attacking the peers right and left:
There is scarcely house among our
older nobility that has a fairer record
than the Percys." They used their vast
wealth wisely, says the same writer.
and, las rule, have not figured largely
as placement
According to Burke's Peerage, the
family of Percy started with William
the Conqueror though even Burke is
from. At all events, he was on hand
to work with William. He had son.
and that son had a son: but this third
generation left only two daughters,
Maude and Agnes. So the real line of
the Percies ended with this third ba
ron's death in ITO.
Maude de Percy married and died
without children; her sister Agnes mar
red Josceline, son of Geoffroi, duke Of
Louvaine, in France-in the time of
Henry II. and his sons. England was
really more French than it was Eng
lish-and compelled him to take her
name. Her estates and those of her
sister Maude, which Agnes sons in
herited, were not in northumberland
then, but in Hampshire, Lincolnshire
and Yorkshire. The descendants of
Josceline de Louvaine-Percy held those
estates and the barony of Percy for 200
years, doing good work for the country
and probably for themselves. Richard,
son of Josceline, was one of the barons
who opposed King John. and had his
eye on the king when the latter signed
Magma Charta. He was one of the
twenty-five barons who guarded the
charter. too.
In the reign of Edward H., about
1920, the ninth Baron Percy was made
warden of the Scots marches, and then
acquired the castle of Alnwck, in
been the home of the family. He was
the second Henry of the Louvaine-Per
cys and after him came nine other
HenryS, so that there was always a
Henry Baron Percy or Earl of North
| cumberland from about 1890 to late in
the 10th century, when Henry. Earl of
Northumberland, died chldless in Ed
ward WIS time.
In 1877, at the coronation of Richard
Do God
Earl of northumberland He is the earl
who appears in Shakespeare's Richard
H. and Henry w." and his son was
the famous Hotspur .Hotspur was kill
ed in 1903 in the uprising of the north
against Henry W., and when the earl
fell at Branham Moor the whole family
was attatnted, and it's estates confis-
Gated to the crown But HotSpur's son
was restored lin blood, and the estates
and title given back to him. so that
| he became the second Earl of Northum-
| berland. He supported the Lancastrian
side in the War of the Roses, and was
| killed at St. Adams, and his son and
| brothers died at Towton. OF course they
| were attained for treason by the sue
| cessful Yorkists, and the estates and
! titles disappeared a second time. The
| fourth earl was restored by Edward
" and then turned against Richard
| III. at the battle of Bosworth Field in
| 1885. That fact endeared him for a time
| to Henry VII, but the next earl but
one Henry, half way approved, even
if he did not take part in the pilgrim
age of Grace" in 1887, and he and his
brothers had to suffer, and a third time
the Percy estates departed from the
family. One of the earls brothers was
Sir 1ngelram, or Ingram Percy OF
| whom, as Burke says, more anon"
1 But the nephew of the attained earl