_Hermanus COLE (KOOL) _+
| (1740 - 1813) m 1760
_Samuel COLE ________|
| (1765 - 1843) |
| |_Margaret SWARTWOUT ___+
| (1736 - ....) m 1760
|
|--Sarah COLE
| (1816 - ....)
| _George WELSH _________+
| | (1757 - 1837)
|_Rachel WELSH _______|
(1783 - ....) |
|_Nancy CANNON _________+
(1763 - 1834)
[502] Married Wilson Spencer 1
_Richard II DE NORMANDY ______+
| (0963 - 1026) m 1000
_Richard III DE NORMANDY _|
| (0987 - 1028) |
| |_Judith (Juetta) DE BRETAGNE _
| (0956 - 1017) m 1000
|
|--Alix (Alice) DE NORMANDY
| (1021 - ....)
| ______________________________
| |
|_concubine 3 DE NORMANDY _|
|
|______________________________
_William DE PERCIE __+
| (0980 - ....)
_Geoffrey (Alan?) DE PERCY _|
| (1005 - ....) |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--William "Als Gernons" DE PERCY
| (1034 - 1096)
| _____________________
| |
|____________________________|
|
|_____________________
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One source says he came with William the Conqueror and fought at
Hastings in 1066 .
Said to have accompanied Hugh d'Avranches, later Earl of Chester, from
Normandy to England. See The Complete Peerage vol.X,p436.
William de Perci was wild and adventurous and wore a beard(which was
apparently unusual at this time). For this he was known as Al-gers-nons
(meaning with whiskers) and the name of Algernon has followed the Percy
race to this very day.
There does not seem to be any proof that William de Percy was with
William the Conquerer at the battle of Hastings in 1066. In fact it
seems that William (Algernon) de Percy arrived in England in 1067 to
assist the Conquerer mop up remaining resistance in Yorkshire and shore
up the defences against the threat from Scotland and from the
possibility of Viking invasion. For his trouble William de Percy was
given knights fees and land, initially under Earl Hugh of Chester. By
1086 William's family including brothers Serlo and Picot is charted as
owning various estates in Yorkshire and the surrounding counties.
In 1070 he was engaged on works connected with the rebuilding of York
Castle after its destruction by the Danes and in 1072 he took part in
the Conqueror's expedition to Scotland. At the Domesday survey he was
tenant in chief in the three ridings of Yorkshire, in Lindsey, with a
small holding in Nottingham and of Humbledon Hants which he had
received with his wife (Emma de Port). He was also an under tenant of
the Earl of Chester in Whitby and in Catton and in the city of York and
of the Bishop of Durham in Scarborough and Lund.
He built the castle at Topcliffe and before 1086 he refounded the
monastery at Whitby. He was among the Barons present when the Conqueror
heard a plea relating to property of the Abbey of Fecamp and he
witnessed charters of William II in the period before 1095. In 1096 he
set out on the first crusade and died and was buried at Mount Joy near
Jerusalem. (This was also the ancient burial site of Samuel of the Old
Testament and the hill today is called Nebi Samwel) just 10 km's NW of
Jerusalem. Following Williams dying wishes Sir Ralph Eversly a Knight
carried his heart back to England and it was buried at Whitby Abbey.
William had sons Alan, Walter, William, Richard and Arnolde.
William became the 2nd Abbot of Whitby in 1102.
From Richard sprang the Percies of Dunsley.
Arnolde de Percy witnessed his father William de Percy's charter to
Whitby and from him came the Percies of Kildale and Kilnwick Percy.
William de Percy had 2 brothers.
This excerpt is from - The Conqueror and His Companions by J.R.
Planché, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.
The name of Percy, strange to say, does not occur in the Roll of Battle
Abbey; for I cannot agree with my old friend Sir Bernard Burke in his
discovery of it in Percelay, a form in which I have never found it in
any authority. Strange, because in view of the numerous interpolations
it contains, one can scarcely imagine the omission of a name so
distinguished in Anglo-Norman history. But for those manifest additions
the fact of the absence of the name of Percy would go far to establish
the genuineness of the Rolls, as no member of that family appears to
have fought at Senlac, and William de Percy must be placed in the list
of those noble Normans who "came over with the Conqueror" on his return
to England in 1067, amongst whom I have already mentioned Roger de
Montgoineri and Hugh d'Avranches.
William de Percy was the sworn brother-in-arms of the latter, and
accompanied him to England, and who on being made Earl of Chester
transferred to him the lordship of Whitby, with the extensive domains
attached to it in the East Riding of Yorkshire. By what service he
obtained the vast possessions held by him at the time of the general
survey we have no information, an old manuscript, quoted by Dugdale,
simply saying that, "being much beloved by the King," he enjoyed them
through his bounty, and it is not till we arrive at the reign of
Stephen that we hear of any remarkable actions attributed to his
descendants, when his great-great-grandson, William de Percy,
distinguished himself by his valour in the famous battle of the
Standard.
The name of this ancient and noble family was derived from their great
fief of Perci, near Villedieu, in Normandy, and according to tradition
they were the descendants of one Mainfred, a Dane, who had preceded
Rollo into Neustria.
Geoffrey, the son of Mainfred, followed him in the service of Rollo,
and was succeeded in rotation by William, Geoffrey, William, and
Geoffrey, all born in Normandy, the latter Geoffrey being the father of
William de Percy, the subject of this notice, and of Serlo, his
brother, the first abbot of Whitby, a monastery founded by William on
the site of one called Skinshale, which had been destroyed by Inguar
and Hubba.
Upon this abbey William bestowed the towns of Seaxby and Everley; but
resumed and regranted them to Ralph de Everley, his esquire, who had
been in his service many years. Abbot Serlo, his brother, feeling
injured by this proceeding, made his complaint to William Rufus, with
whom he had been on terms of intimacy during the reign of his father,
and the King ordered restitution to be made.
Serlo, however, was not satisfied with the restoration of the towns,
and having no confidence in his brother, determined to quit Whitby and
establish himself where he should hold under the King only, and be out
of his brother's power. He therefore begged of Rufus six carucates of
land in Hakenas and Northfield, and translated thither part of the
community of Whitby.
William de Percy married a lady named Emma de Port, "in discharging of
his conscience," says our ancient writer, she being "very heire" to the
estates given to him by William the Conqueror, and in 1096, having
joined the first Crusade in company with Robert Court-heuse, died at
Montjoye, near Jerusalem, the celebrated eminence so named by the
Christian Pilgrims, because from there they first caught sight of the
sacred city. His body was brought back to England, and buried in the
chapter house at Whitby.
This Anglo-Norman race of the Percys apparently became extinct in the
male line at the close of the 12th century by the deaths, without
issue, of the four sons of his grandson William, when this great
inheritance was divided between their two sisters and co-heirs, Maud,
wife of William de Mauduit, Earl of Warwick, who died without issue,
and Agnes, on whom the whole possessions of the Percys in England
devolved, and passed with her hand to Joceleyn de Louvaine, brother of
Adeliza, Queen of Henry I, who assumed the name of Percy, retaining the
arms of his own family.
From the issue of this marriage descended those great Earls of
Northumberland and Worcester, whose deeds and fortunes are interwoven
with the most important portions of our history from the reign of Henry
III to that of Charles I
_John PEARCE ________+
| (1643 - ....) m 1663
_John PEARCE _________|
| (1682 - ....) m 1716 |
| |_Eliza CARTER _______+
| m 1663
|
|--John PEARCE
| (1717 - 1807)
| _____________________
| |
|_Marietjee DELAMATER _|
(1696 - 1734) m 1716 |
|_____________________
_Mr. TOMPKINS _______
|
_Harley TOMPKINS ____|
| |
| |_Lucile MEADOWS _____+
|
|
|--Dinah TOMPKINS
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Barbara ____________|
|
|_____________________
_Wig VON SAXONY _____+
| (0355 - ....)
_Gewis VON SAXONY ___|
| (0383 - ....) |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Esla VON SAXONY
| (0411 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________