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Spencer, Catherine ( - 1542)

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Percy

Born / Died

Birth Date: n.d.
Death Date: 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

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

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

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Countess of Northumberland

Titles

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

Details of Offices

Details of Properties

Residence

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

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - 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.
  • The Victoria History of the County of Oxford. 15 vols. London: Oxford UP, 1907--