_William DE FERRIER _+
| (1332 - ....)
_Henry DE FERRIER ___|
| (1355 - ....) |
| |_Margaret DE UFFORD _
|
|
|--William DE FERRIER
| (1372 - 1445)
| _____________________
| |
|_Joan _______________|
|
|_____________________
_Philip HERBERT _____+
|
_Watkin HERBERT _____|
| |
| |_Joan BLETHIN _______+
|
|
|--William HERBERT
|
| _____________________
| |
|_____________________|
|
|_____________________
_Artavazd MAMIKONIAN _+
| (0650 - 0693)
_Hemayakes MAMIKONIAN _|
| (0700 - 0778) |
| |______________________
|
|
|--Artavadz MAMIKONIAN
| (0740 - 0778)
| ______________________
| |
|_______________________|
|
|______________________
_David MIZELL _______+
| m 1829
_David MIZELL _________|
| (1833 - 1870) |
| |_Mary C PEARCE ______+
| (1804 - 1893) m 1829
|
|--John Thomas MIZELL
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Angeline Augusta MAY _|
|
|_____________________
_George PEARCE ______+
| (1662 - 1752) m 1687
_James PEARCE _______|
| (1691 - 1755) m 1712|
| |_Alice HART _________+
| (1669 - 1717) m 1687
|
|--Phebe PEARCE
| (1731 - 1755)
| _Samuel WILBORE _____+
| | (1618 - 1697) m 1680
|_Martha WILBORE _____|
(1690 - 1760) m 1712|
|_Mary POTTER ________+
(1666 - 1704) m 1680
_Henry PERCY ________+
| (.... - 1489)
_Henry PERCY ________|
| (.... - 1527) |
| |_Maude PEMBROKE _____
|
|
|--Henry PERCY
| (.... - 1537)
| _____________________
| |
|_Katharine SPENCER __|
|
|_____________________
[616]
Known as 'The Unthrifty', was dogged with misfortune all his life. At
an early age he fell in love with Anne Boleyn, but was forced to
renounce her by Henry VIII.
In 1530 he was ordered by the King to arrest Cardinal Wolsey. The
meeting between him and Wolsey is faithfully recorded in Shakespeare's
"Henry VIII".
When Anne Boleyn's trial took place the Earl was appointed a member of
the Commission to try her-a typical instance of Henry VIII's brutality.
He avoided the office on the plea of sickness.
In 1536 the dissolution of the monasteries led to the Catholic rising
known as the 'Pilgrimage of Grace'. The Earl, in spite of threats and
persuasions, remained loyal, and resolutely refused to join it, but his
two brothers, Thomas and Ingleram, were leaders in this revolt. Sir
Ingleram summoned the gentlemen of the county to a meeting at Alnwick
Castle on October 15th, at which all present were required to swear to
the articles of the Pilgrimage; in spite of protests, "being enclosed
in the Castle of Alnwick, will they or not, sworn they were".
Sir Thomas was executed at Tyburn and Sir Ingleram was imprisoned in
the Tower, where his name may still be seen inscribed on the wall of
the Beauchainp Tower. As the Earl had no son and his brother's family
could not succeed owing to their father's attainder for high treason,
he left his estates to the Crown, hoping thereby to placate the King
and to induce him eventually to restore them to his brother's family.
He died in 1537 in dire poverty, encumbered with debt and stricken with
grief at the ruin of his family.
It was twenty years before the restoration of the estates took place.
In the meantime Alnwick was occupied by successive Wardens of the
Marches, and continued to fill its historic role of the principal
centre and base for the defence of the Eastern Marches and for
expeditions into Scotland by the eastern route.
In 1557 Queen Mary restored the Earldom of Northumberland to the nephew
of the 6th Earl, Thomas Percy, son of the Thomas who had perished at
Tybu