| LC control no. | nr 96028197 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Percy, Henry, Lord, 1364-1403 |
| Variant(s) | Hotspur, Henry, Lord, 1364-1403 Northumberland, Earl of, 1364-1403 Piercy, Lord, 1364-1403 Hotspur, Harry, 1364-1403 |
| Associated country | England |
| Birth date | 1364-05-20 |
| Death date | 1403-07-21 |
| Place of birth | Alnwick (England) |
| Place of death | Shrewsbury (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Knights and knighthood |
| Special note | The famous and renowned history of the memorable, but unhappy hunting on Chevy-Chase, by the river Tweed in Scotland; together with the great and mortal battles fought there, between the Lord Piercy, Earl of Northumberland, and his fifteen hundred English archers, and Earl Dowglas, with twenty hundred Scottish spears,in which both, with most of their men, were slain, 1690. |
| Found in | 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) 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) Oxford Dictionary of national biography WWW site, 4 Sep., 2017 (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) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21931> |
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