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BlessedThomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (1528 - 22 August1572) was the nephew of Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, Anne Boleyn's lover before King Henry VIII. He was granted the title of Earl of Northumberland in 1557. In 1558 he married Anne Somerset, daughter of Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester. In Catholicism, beatification (from Latin beatus, blessed, via Greek μακαÏιος, makarios) is a recognition accorded by the church of a dead persons accession to Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name (intercession of saints). ... Events June 19 - Battle of Landriano - A French army in Italy under Marshal St. ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... January 16 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. ... Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (1502 - 1537), was the son of Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland. ... The title of Earl of Northumberland was created several times in the Peerages of England and Great Britain. ... A portrait of Anne Boleyn painted some years after her death. ... For the play, see Henry VIII (play). ... The title of Earl of Northumberland was created several times in the Peerages of England and Great Britain. ... Events January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of England July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines. ... Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester was born around 1496 to Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Herbert. ...
Having taken a very important role in the Rising of the North, he fled to Scotland once that rebellion was defeated. Captured by the Earl of Morton, one of the leading Scottish nobles, he was handed over by the Anglophile Morton to the English government, and afterwards (at York) publicly executed. His wife survived him, as did four daughters who were his co-heirs. The earldom passed to his brother. The Rising of the North or Northern Rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising against Elizabeth I of England in 1569 by Catholics of Northern England. ... James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (c. ... This article is about the historic English city. ...
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He and Anne Somerset were parents to five children:
The earl died on the 21st of October 1425, and a fine alabaster tomb was erected to his memory in Staindrop church close by Raby Castle.
Charles, 6th earl (1543-1601), eldest son of the 5th earl by his first wife Jane, daughter of Thomas Manners, ist earl of Rutland, was brought up a Roman Catholic, and was further attached to the Catholic party by his marriage with Jane, daughter of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey.
He was a member of the council of the north in 1569 when he joined ThomasPercy, 7thearl of Northumberland, and his uncle Christopher Neville, in the Catholic rising of the north, which had as its object the liberation of Mary, queen of Scots.
Henry Algernon Percy, the fifth Earl of Northumberland, maintained at his castles of Leconfield and Wressil a splendour and hospitality scarcely inferior to that of the royal court.
His second son, Sir ThomasPercy, was beheaded at Tyburn, 2 Jun, 1537, for his participation in the Pilgrimage of Grace, and subsequently, in consequence of this attainder, part of the estates were conferred upon John Dudley, who was created Duke of Northumberland, and succeeded to the castle and estate of Leconfield, in 1551.
He was the eldest son of Sir ThomasPercy, brother of the childless Henry Percy, sixth Earl of Northumberland, and Eleanor, daughter of Sir Guiscard Harbottle.
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