Spencer, Catherine ( - 1542)

Biographical Overview

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Parents

Titles - 1
Properties - 4
Total events naming patron - 1
Troupes - 1
Bibliographic Sources - 4
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Percy

Born / Died

Birth Date: n.d.
Death Date: by 1542-10-19 (burial date)

Notes

Arrested and goods and properties seized Feb. 1536/7 on the charge of fowarding a letter to her son Sir Thomas Percy to Sir Francis Bigod (both rebel leaders in the Pilgrimage of Grace); released early Oct. 1537

Siblings

Female

Spencer, Margaret (1471 - )

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Percy, Henry Algernon (1477/8 - 1527)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: before 1502
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

From Percy, Henry Algernon (1477/8 - 1527)

  1. Male offspring: Percy, Henry (1502 - 1537) (patron)
  2. Male offspring: Percy, Thomas (d. 1537)
  3. Male offspring: Percy, Ingelram (d. 1538)
  4. Female offspring: Percy, Margaret (1492 - 1540)
  5. Female offspring: Percy, Maud (n.d.)

Primary Title

Countess of Northumberland

Titles

  • Countess of Northumberland
    Assumed Before 1502 (marriage date)
    Vacated 1542-10-19

Details of Properties

Residence

  • London (city-county)
    House in Aldgate; husband's residence
    Acquired: before 1502
    Divested: 1527
  • Alnwick, Northumberland
    Husband's residence
    Acquired: before 1502
    Divested: 1527
  • Wressell, Yorkshire: East Riding
    Husband's residence
    Acquired: before 1502
    Divested: 1527
  • Seamer, Yorkshire: North Riding
    Residence after husband's death
    Acquired: 1527
    Divested: 1542-10-19

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1518-1519 Chichester (Unknown), Chichester , Sussex Lady Northumberland's Bearwards

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lady Northumberland's Bearwards Spencer, Catherine (0 - 1542) Performing Animals 1

Bibliographic Sources

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The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982.
Emerson, Kathy Lynn. Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England. Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing, 1984.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 01/05/2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com)
The Victoria History of the County of Oxford. Victoria History of the Counties of England. 15 vols. London: Oxford UP, 1907–.