Name Mary Lancaster | House House of Plantagenet | |
Spouse Henry Percy, 3rd Baron Percy Issue Henry Percy, 1st Earl of NorthumberlandThomas Percy, 1st Earl of WorcesterMaud PercyMary, Baroness Ros Children Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester Parents Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, Maud Chaworth Siblings Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster Similar People | ||
Mary of Lancaster, Baroness Percy (1320 – 1 September 1362), was the youngest surviving child of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster by his wife Maud Chaworth. Through her father, she was a great-granddaughter of Henry III of England.
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Family
Mary was born in 1320 or 1321. She was a sister of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Maud, Countess of Ulster, Joan, Baroness de Mowbray, and Eleanor, Countess of Arundel. Through her brother Henry, she was the aunt of Blanche of Lancaster, first wife of John of Gaunt and mother of Henry IV of England.
Marriage
Near September 1334 at Tutbury Castle, she married Henry Percy, eldest son of Henry Percy, 2nd Baron Percy and Idoine de Clifford. He succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Percy in 1352.
They had the following surviving issue:
Death
Mary died at Alnwick, Northumberland, England on 1 September 1362, where she was also buried. Her husband Henry would marry a second time to Joan Orreby, daughter and heiress of John, 2nd Lord Orreby.