page_title: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Poynings: Barry of six or and vert a bend gules. Quartered by Percy. Text per: 'Parishes: Poynings', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1940), pp. 208-212[1] "The manor of Poynings in Sussex passed to Eleanor de Poynings (d.1484), daughter and heiress of Richard de Poynings, and wife of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland (1421-1461). Subsequently the lordship of Poynings became merged in the Earldom of Northumberland. His son Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland (d.1489) bequeathed the manor and lordship of Poynings to his youngest son Josceline Percy "to the intent that the said Gosslyne shall be of loving and lowly disposition towards the said Henry his [eldest] brother and give him his allegiance". In 1514, however, the manor was conveyed by Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (1478-1527)and his wife Katherine Spencer to trustees, and in 1523 the same earl leased it to George Gyfford for 21 years". (Source: )
context_page_description: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, was an English magnate.
  The Earldom of Northumberland was then one of the greatest landholdings in northern England; Percy also became Lord Poynings on his marriage. This title would bring him into direct conflict with the Poynings family themselves, and indeed, feuds with neighbouring nobles, both lay and ecclesiastical, would be a key occupancy of his youth.
  Percy married Eleanor Poynings, who outlived him; together they had four children. He was a leading Lancastrian during the Wars of the Roses, from which he managed to personally benefit, although his father died early in the war. He was not, however, to live to enjoy these gains, being killed at the Battle of Towton in 1461 on the defeated Lancastrian side.
context_section_description: On or before 25 June 1435, by the arrangement in 1434 of his father and Cardinal Beaufort, he married Eleanor Poynings (c.1422-11 February 1484), suo jure Baroness Poynings, daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Poynings of Poynings in Sussex, by his second wife Eleanor Berkeley, a daughter of Sir John Berkeley of Beverston Castle in Gloucestershire. In 1446 she became heir general to her grandfather Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings (1380–1446), inherited his title of Baron Poynings (which having been created by writ was able to descend to females) and his large estates across the south of England. He was summoned to Parliament from 14 December 1446 to 26 May 1455, by writs directed Henrico de Percy, chivaler, domino de Ponynges ("Henry de Percy, Knight, lord of the manor of Poynings"). His wife was a legatee in the 1455 will of her mother, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel (widow of John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel). They had at least one son and four daughters:
  Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (c. 1449 – 28 April 1489), who married Maud Herbert, daughter of the first Earl of Pembroke.
  Margaret Percy (b. c. 1447), who married Sir William Gascoigne
  Elizabeth Percy (1460–1512), who married Henry Scrope, 6th Baron Scrope of Bolton.
  Anne Percy (1444–1522), who married Sir Thomas Hungerford in 1460.
  Eleanor Percy (1455-c. 1477), who married Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr; they had no children.
caption: Arms of Poynings: Barry of six or and vert a bend gules. Subsequently quartered by Percy
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