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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM DE PERCY, of Topcliffe, Catton, Gisburn, Leconfield, Nafferton, Seamer, Settle, Spofforth, Tadcaster, and Wansford, Yorkshire, Snailwell, Cambridgeshire, Hambledon, Hampshire, Heyshott and Petworth, Sussex, etc., son and heir, born about 1193 (minor in Trinity term 1212, came of age before Trinity term 1214). He married (1st) about 1226 JOAN BRIWERRE (or BRIWERE), daughter of William Briwerre, Knt., of Bridgwater, Somerset, Horsley, Derbyshire, Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, etc., Sheriff of Devon, Dorset, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Northamptonshire; and Derbyshire, by Beatrice de Valle [see BRIWERRE 3 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the whole vill of Foston, Leicestershire. They had five daughters, including Joan (wife of Henry de Ferlington), Agnes (wife of Eustace de Balliol), Alice (wife of Randolph Heringaud [or Heringod]), and Anastasia. Although he was the heir male of his great-grandfather, William de Percy, he only obtained possession of approximately a moiety of the Percy barony (i.e., the moiety held by his great aunt, Maud de Percy, Countess of Warwick), until the death in 1244 of his uncle, Richard de Percy, who held the other moiety and with whom he had a long series of disputes. In 1214 he proceeded to Rome on the king's service. In 1221 he served with the king at Biham. In 1224 he was excused scutage for the army in Wales for his good service. The same year he was granted a market at his manor of Spofforth, Yorkshire, until the king attained full age. He served in the French expedition in 1230. He and his wife, Joan, were benefactors of St Cuthbert's church in Durham. Joan died before 12 June 1233, and was buried at the Hospital of Sandon, Surrey. He granted the Hospital of Sandon, Surrey an income of 20 marks, together with 80 acres of land in Foston, Leicestershire for the purpose of supporting six chaplains for divine offices within the house. He married (2nd) about 1233 ELLEN DE BALLIOL, daughter of Ingram de Balliol, Sheriff of Berwick, by ___, daughter and heiress of Walter de Berkeley, of Red Castle, Forfarshire, Chamberlain of Scotland. Her maritagium included the manor of Dalton in Hartness, Durham. They had six sons, Henry, Knt., Ingram, Knt., William [Canon at St. Peter's, York], Walter, Alan, and Jocelin. In 1241 he was one of four commissioners to survey the royal castles in Yorkshire. The same year he was summoned to Chester for military service. In 1242 the king confirmed his gift of the manor of Gisburne in Craven, Yorkshire to Salley Abbey, Yorkshire. In 1244 he paid homage to the king for the lands of his uncle, Richard de Percy. At an unknown date, he granted the church of St. John Evangelist of the Park of Healaugh two marks' rent of his mill of Tadcaster. WILLIAM DE PERCY died shortly before 28 July 1245, and was probably buried at Sallay Abbey, Yorkshire. His heart was buried before the Lady altar in the church or chapel of the Hospital of Sandon, Surrey. His widow, Ellen, died shortly before 22 Nov. 1281.
Topographer 2 (1790): 288-291. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 2 (1812): 217-366 (sub Duke of Northumberland). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 676 (charter of William de Percy son and heir of Henry de Percy to Sandon Hospital), 939 (charter of William de Percy, names his grandfather ["avi"] Jocelin, and his mother ["matris"] Isabel de Bruis). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836-41): 239-240 (Bruere or Briwere ped.). Stevenson Libor Vitae Ecclesiae Dunelmensis (Surtees Soc. 13) (1841): 82. Tate Hist. of the Borough, Castle & Barony of Alnwick (1866): 412-414 (Percy ped.). Foss Biog. Dict. of the Judges of England (1870): 512 (biog. of William de Percy). C.Ch.R. 1 (1895): 265. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 2nd Ser. 7 (1905): 446-452. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 189. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 481. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 158-167 (sub Percy). Fairer Honors & Knights' Fees I (1923): 231-232. Purvis Chartulary of the Augustinian Priory of St. John the Evangelist of the Park of Healaugh (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser. 92) (1936): 192 (undated charter of William son of Henry de Percy). C.P. 10 (1945): 452-455 (sub Percy). Paget (1957) 440:2. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 148. VCH Surrey 2 (1967): 118-119. Bean Decline of English Feudalism (1968): 108. C.R.R. 15 (1972): 110-111. Wardrop Fountains Abbey & its Benefactors, 1132-1300 (Cistercian Studies Ser. 92) (1987): 158-160. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 479-482. McAndrew Scotland's Hist. Heraldry (2006): 78.
Child of William de Percy, by Joan Briwerre:
i. ANASTASIA DE PERCY, married RALPH FITZ RANULPH, of Middleham, Yorkshire [see NEVILLE 8].
Child of William de Percy, by Ellen de Balliol:
i. HENRY DE PERCY, Knt. [see next].”
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