Noble family House of Percy Name Lady Percy Died 26 October 1436 | Mother Elizabeth Mortimer Father Henry 'Hotspur' Percy | |
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Spouse(s) John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford
Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland | ||
Lady Elizabeth Percy (c. 1395 – 26 October 1436) was the daughter of Sir Henry Percy, known to history as 'Hotspur', and Elizabeth Mortimer. Her mother was the eldest daughter of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March and his wife, Philippa, the only child of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, and Elizabeth de Burgh, Countess of Ulster.
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By her mother's first marriage to Sir Henry Percy, Elizabeth Percy had one brother, Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (3 February 1393 – 22 May 1455). Elizabeth Percy also had a brother of the half blood, Sir Roger Camoys, the son of her mother's second marriage to Thomas de Camoys.
Elizabeth Percy died 26 October 1436. She was buried at Staindrop, Durham.
Through her daughter, Mary Clifford, Elizabeth Percy was the great-great-grandmother of Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII.
Marriages and issue
Elizabeth Percy married firstly John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford, slain at the Siege of Meaux on 13 March 1422, by whom she had two sons and two daughters:
With Ralph Neville
She married secondly, in 1426, Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (d. 3 November 1484), by whom she had a son, Sir John Neville.