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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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.
Thomas Percy
Gunpowder Plot
Thomas Percy was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. A tall, physically impressive man, little is known of his early life beyond his matriculation in 1579 at the University of... Wikipedia
Born: 1560, Welwick, United Kingdom
Died: November 8, 1605 (age 45 years), Holbeche House Care Home, Kingswinford, United Kingdom
Grandchild: Francis Percy
Parents: Edward Percy and Elizabeth Waterton
Education: Peterhouse (1579)
Great-grandparents: Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, Richard Tempest, and Maud Herbert
Criminal penalty: Decapitation
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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.
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.
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).
Thomas Percy worked for his cousin Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland during his attempt to secure greater religious toleration under the new king.