Thomas Percy ( c. 1560 – 8 November 1605) was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
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What happened to Thomas Percy?
Because Percy had rented the property in which Guy Fawkes was found, he was easily identified as one of the conspirators. He was found at Holbeach House in Staffordshire with the other conspirators, and killed in the shoot-out on 8 November.
Is the Percy family still Catholic?
The Percy family was still largely Catholic, while Northumberland was at least nominally Protestant.
What did Thomas Percy do in the Gunpowder Plot?
Percy helped fund the group and secured the leases to certain properties in London, one of which was the undercroft directly beneath the House of Lords, in which the gunpowder was finally placed.
Was Thomas Percy related to Henry Percy?
Thomas Percy, earl of Worcester (born c. 1344—died July 23, 1403) was an English noble, brother of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, and uncle of Sir Henry Percy, called “Hotspur,” and a party to their rebellions against Henry IV of England.
Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1st Baron Percy, KG (1528 – 22 August 1572), led the Rising of the North and was executed for treason.
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Thomas Percy was a clergyman and poet who made a significant contribution to the great Romantic movement when he published Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ...
Born in 1729, Thomas Percy would, with one work, go on to be a real trailblazer in the movement that would grow into Romanticism.
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Thomas Percy was born in 1560. He was a wild and belligerent character, who was briefly jailed for killing a Scotsman in a brawl in 1596.
Earl of Northumberland, martyr, born in 1528; died at York, 22 August, 1572. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Percy, brother of the childless Henry Percy.
Sir Thomas was the younger brother of Henry Percy, first earl of Northumberland (created earl 1377, d. 1408) and the uncle of Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur).
