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Ellen DeGeneres

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Henry Percy

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• • 18th Great-grandfather of Ellen DeGeneres — 21st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1088108 
  • Father:
  • Henry "Hotspur" Percy 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Mortimer   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Feb 1392/1393 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 May 1455 
  • Death Location:
  • First Battle of St Albans, Hertfordshire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eleanor Neville
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1414 
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  Henry Percy (Ahnentafel No:544054 )

  Anne Percy

  Katherine Percy

  • Notes: 

  • 2nd Earl of Northumberland, 5th Lord Percy

    Sir Henry Percy was slain at the First Battle of St. Albans.

• Sources for Henry Percy

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2011, Vol. 165, p. 215.
  • ² Adams, Arthur, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (1964), 39, [Birth].
  • ³ American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, Spring 1981, Vol. 2, Iss. 1, p. 125.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, pp. 363, 370.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, p. 178.
  • ⁶ 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), xxxvi, 431, 564.
  • ⁷ 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, 180, 184, 186, 198, 210, 227.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 351, 355.
  • ⁹ 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.
  • ¹⁰ 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.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "First Battle of St Albans", (accessed 02/27/2021).
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland", _2nd_Earl_of_Northumberland, (accessed 02/21/2010).

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