Ancestry of
Francis Scott Key

Author of “The Star Spangled Banner”

Henry Percy

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• • 12th Great-grandfather of Francis Scott Key — 15th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24428 
  • Father:
  • Henry Percy 
  • Mother:
  • Eleanor Neville   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Jul 1421 
  • Birth Location:
  • Leconfield, Yorkshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Mar 1461 
  • Death Location:
  • Battle of Towton, Yorkshire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eleanor Poynings
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 25 Jun 1435 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Margaret Percy

  Henry Percy (Ahnentafel No:12214 )

  • Notes: 

  • 3rd Earl of Northumberland, 6th Lord Percy

• Sources for Henry Percy

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  • ² Adams, Arthur, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (1964), 39.
  • ³ American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, Spring 1981, Vol. 2, Iss. 1, p. 125.
  • ⁴ Browning, Charles H., The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, Philadelpha: (1898), 201.
  • ⁵ Burke, J. Bernard, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland for 1852, Vol. 1, A to O, London: Colburn and Company (1852), 394.
  • ⁶ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, pp. 63, 425.
  • ⁷ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, p. 79.
  • ⁸ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, p. 139.
  • ⁹ Rietwiesner, William Addams, comp. and Christopher Challender Child, et. al., The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 94, 96.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 176, 186, 198, 210, 227.
  • ¹¹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 7.
  • ¹² Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 64.
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Battle of Towton", (accessed 02/27/2021).
  • ¹⁴ Wikipedia, "Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland", _3rd_Earl_of_Northumberland, (accessed 11/19/2012).