National Archives    SC 8/162/8095  1317- 1320
Petitioners: Nicholas de Tewkesbury, late sheriff of Devon. Addressees: King and council.

Nature of request: Nicholas de Tewkesbury requests a remedy so that the sums he expended in the purchase of corn and other victuals which were dispatched to Berwick by the king's order be allowed in his account as two treasurers have commanded such an allowance but it has not been delayed.

 One of the inquisitions referred to in this petition dates to 1317/1318, and this petition refers to former treasurers John de Hotham and Walter de Norwich. Nicholas de Tewkesbury, late sheriff of Devon.
Addressees: King and council.

Nature of request: Tewkesbury requests a remedy so that the sums he expended in the purchase of corn and other victuals which were dispatched to Berwick by the king's order be allowed in his account as two treasurers have commanded such an allowance but it has not been delayed.

The petition probably dates to 1320. One of the inquisitions referred to in this petition dates to 1317/1318, and this petition refers to former treasurers John de Hotham and Walter de Norwich

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9551477. R. eference: C 131/172/50   1325

Description: Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [Lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred, Devon.].

Creditor: Richard de Chissebeche. Amount: £100. Before whom: Chancery. 

When taken: 02/03/1325 First term: 19/05/1325 Last term: 19/05/1325.       Writ to: Sheriff of Devon      Sent by: Chancery

Endorsement: Matthew de Crowthorne, Sheriff, replies that Nicholas de Tewkesbury divested himself of all his lands and tenements in the bailiwick fifteen days before this writ arrived, and therefore it could not be executed; 
afterwards, on 11/08/1325, another writ arrived for half Nicholas's lands, to be returned on 18/11/1325.

Note: Inquisition and return: Date given for the return to Chancery: 11/08/1325. [C 131/2/14 is a duplicate]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s)

A2A  retrieved records 21 Oct 2019   

Petitioners: Nicholas de Teukesbury (Tewkesbury). 

Reference: SC 8/195/9744 Note: C 143/139/18 is dated 13 Edward II (8 July 1319-7 July 1320),
This petition must date from shortly afterwards. The borough of Dartmouth, originally comprised three distinct settlements, Clifton, Dartmouth and Hardness, sometimes combined, as here, into a single place name.

Date: c. 1319]  Related material: For the inquisition ad quod damnum mentioned here, see C 143/139/18 

inquisition ad quod damnum -  translates  as '  damage to the inquisition '  

C 143/139/18

Description:  Nicholas de Teukesbyry to have a grant that his town of Clifton Dartmouth Hardeness shall be a free borough. Devon. Date: 13 EDWARD II.

C 143/139 Description: Inquisitions taken as a result of applications to the Crown for licences to alienate land.

C 143/139/18 Nicholas de Teukesbyry to have a grant that his town of Clifton Dartmouth Hardenash shall be a free borough. Devon  date 13 Edward II 1320 

Reference: SC 8/162/8095

Description: Petitioners: Nicholas de Tewkesbury, late sheriff of Devon.   Addressees: King and council.

Occupation: sheriff of Devon

Nature of request: Tewkesbury requests a remedy so that the sums he expended in the purchase of corn and other victuals which were dispatched to Berwick by the king's order be allowed in his account as two treasurers have commanded such an allowance but it has not been delayed.

Nature of endorsement: Let the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer be commanded to view the letters sent to them by the king upon the contents of the petition, and also the inquisitions taken upon this, and they should make allowance according to the tenor of the orders and inquisitions. If there is a reasonable cause whereby this ought not to be done then the king is to be certified.

Places mentioned: Devon; Scotland; Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]; Tavistock, [Devon].

People mentioned: William Martin ; Robert de Stokhey; William Burne (Bourne); Bishop of Exeter; [Nicholas of Hanslope], abbot of Tavistock; [John Hotham], bishop of Ely; Walter de Norwyz (Norwich), late treasurer.

Note:   The petition probably dates to 1320. One of the inquisitions referred to in this petition dates to 1317/1318, and this petition refers to former treasurers John de Hotham and Walter de Norwich. Norwich served several terms, but if the treasurers are referred to in the order that they served, Hotham served from May 1317 to June 1318, and Norwich from September 1319 to February 1320, which would date to after February 1320. If the references refer to Hotham as the most recent of the two treasurers, then the petition would date to after June 1318, Norwich's previous term ending in May 1317.

Devon Record Office 3799M-0/ET/25/1 1364

Contents: Grant for 13 years

1. Thomas of la POMEROY

2. John Fisschre., John Capoun, John Tailour

Premises: all the coppice wood growing in 1.'s woods of Bixynore and Hailes

Rent: 20/- payable at 'San.' in the house of Walter atte Burghe called le Reale

Condition: if Fissachre do not pay the rent, cut down oak, ash or coppice wood outside the term granted, or do not keep the wood of Hailes enclosed, then Pomeroy is allowed to re-enter the woods and retain them.
Fissachre, Capoun & Tailor  bind themselves in £10 to pay for this transgression

Date: Stoke Basset, Monday after St Michael, 38 Edward III

Seals: three; first missing, second a heraldic beast, possibly a lion, third a man's head in an eight-pointed star

Note  A number of Benedictine Priories were connected  across the  vale of Severn by trackways and lanes . These were Deerhurst, Little Malvern, Gloucester, Winchcombe, ( Hailes Abbey is nearby  a wealthy and significant Cistercian abbey founded in 1246 by Richard, Earl of Cornwall,  3 miles north of  Winchcombe & Sudeley Castle) Other Benedictines foundations were at Tewkesbury, Evesham, Pershore and Worcester . Hereford lies to the west & still has a Benedictine Abbey ; to west beyond that is Wales .
Mainly founded in the 12th century these were lost  when Henry VIII laid waste to  the monastic system during  the Dissolution in the late 1530’s.

Bixynor is English Bicknor & Welsh Bicknor - two parishes on opposite sides of the river Wye near Symonds Yat  with Goodritch with its Castle & close to Lydbrook in thr Forest of Dean.

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NICHOLAS the Merchant  1317-1320    Related material:

For a copy of another writ formerly attached to petition, see SC 8/162/8097

For the copy of another inquisition formerly attached to this petition, see SC 8/162/8096

For a copy of a writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to make allowance, see SC 8/162/8094

For a copy of one of the inquisitions formerly attached to this petition, see SC 8/162/8093

Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s) Language: French (Norman French) Closure status:Open Document,  

Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury {Teukesbyry}  lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred] of Devon. 

Creditor: William de.Haywode

Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple. Description available at other catalogue level. Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury {Teukesbyry} [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred] of Devon.
Creditor: William de Haywood {Haywode}. Amount: £31 19s. 3d. Before whom: John le Blund, Mayor of London

• Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Date: 1307 • Reference: C 241/57/166 • Subjects Debt | Trade and commerce
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury {Teukesbyry} [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred] of Devon.
Creditor: William de Heywood {Heywode} 

Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple. Description available at other catalogue level.
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury {Teukesbyry} [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred] of Devon. Creditor: William de Heywood {Heywode} Amount: £31 19s. 3d. Before whom: John le Blund, Mayor of London

• Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Date: 1308 • Reference: C 241/61/94 • Subjects: Debt | Trade and commerce
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred], and Roger de Cockington, knight [of...

Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple.
Description available at other catalogue level.
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred], and Roger de Cockington, knight [of Cockington, Haytor Hundred, Devon].
Creditor: Walter, the Bishop of Exeter [Devon]  

• Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Date: 13 December 1310 • Reference: C 241/70/43 •
Subjects: Debt | Trade and commerce
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth in Coleridge Hundred, and held two fees in...

Debtor: Miles, burgess of Gloucester. Creditor: Simon Bull {Bole}, citizen of London [merchant]. Amount: £40,...
Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple. Description available at other catalogue level. London;
William Trent; in the presence of Roger le Grant, barber, Robert de Lemington, John Lucas, and William Trent;
in the presence of Roger le Grant, barber, Robert de Lemington, John Lucas, and Nicholas de Tewkesbury.
When taken: 30/03/1313 First term: 15/04/1313 Last term: 15/04/1313
Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Date: 1313 Reference: C 241/81/179 Subjects: Debt | Trade and commerce
Statute of Staple refers to wool trading

Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple. Description available at other catalogue level.
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth in Coleridge Hundred, and held two fees in Galmpton and Hewish [Stanborough Hundred, Devon]
Creditor: The Abbot of Tavistock [Tavistock Hundred)

• Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Date: 16 September 1310 • Reference: C 241/69/180
Subjects: Debt | Trade and commerce
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred], and Roger de Cockington [of Cockington,...

Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple.
Description available at other catalogue level.
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred], and Roger de Cockington [of Cockington, Haytor Hundred, Devon.], knight.
Creditor: Sir Robert, the Abbot of Tavistock [Tavistock

• Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Date:16 September 1310 • Reference: C 241/69/178
Subjects: Debt | Trade and commerce
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred, Devon]
Creditor: Sir Walter, Bishop of...(Probably Walter Stapledon and probably shipping wool and or wine ) 

Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple. Description available at other catalogue level.
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred, Devon]
Creditor: Sir Walter, Bishop of Exeter [Devon] Amount: £20. Before whom: Roger Beyvyn, Mayor of Exeter; William de Haywood

• Held by The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Date: 13 December 1310 • Reference: C 241/70/41 •
Subjects: Debt | Trade and commerce
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury, lord of Dartmouth [Coleridge Hundred] and Roger de Cockington, knight, 

Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple. Description available at other catalogue level.
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury, lord of Dartmouth [Coleridge Hundred] and Roger de Cockington, knight, of Devon.
Creditor: Philip Burde, burgess of Dartmouth [deceased]. Amount: £40.  Note: Executors of Philip: Robert de Ashburton, Walter Daumarle, and John de Combe.

• Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Date: 03 May 1315 • Reference: C 241/80/10
Subjects: Debt | Trade and commerce Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple. Description available at other catalogue level.
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth] of [Coleridge Hundred] Devon. Creditor: Sir John Tracy [deceased; held part of a fee in North Bovey [Teignbridge Hundred], in Stedleigh [Shirwell

Note: Executors of Sir John: William de Wooley, Roger de Mortho, and Robert de Bickleigh.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions 

• Date: 05 November 1315 • Reference: C 241/84/81 • Subjects: Debt | Trade and commerce

 Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred, Devon]. Creditor: Thomas de Arcubus, citizen...

Chancery: Extents for Debts, Series I. Original files of writs and returns. Described at item level. Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred, Devon].
Creditor: Thomas de Arcubus, citizen of London.
Amount: £40. Before whom: In Chancery. When taken: 01/05/1315 First term

Note: Inquisition and return: M. 2: Extent made at Kingsbridge before Matthew de Cliveden, Sheriff of Devon. Nicholas has 100 acres of arable worth 8d an acre in the manor of Hywysh; 5½ acres of meadow

• Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Date: 04 May 1317 • Reference: C 131/1/8 Subjects: Debt
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [Lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred, Devon.].
Creditor: Richard de Chissebeche.  

Chancery: Extents for Debts, Series I. Unexecuted writs; writs detached from their lost returns; writs de liberacione. Described at item level. Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [Lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred, Devon.]. Creditor: Richard de Chissebeche. Amount: £100. Before whom: Chancery. When taken: 02/03/1325 First term: 19/05/1325

 Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Date: 13 July 1325 • Reference:C 131/172/50 • Subjects: Debt
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [Lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred, Devon.].
Creditor: Richard de Chissebeche. 

Chancery: Extents for Debts, Series I. Original files of writs and returns. Described at item level. Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [Lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred, Devon.].
Creditor: Richard de Chissebeche. Amount: £100.
Before whom: In Chancery. When taken: 03/03/1325 First term: 19/05/1325

Note: Manor of Hewish [in Crewkerne Hundred, Somerset.] there are 97 acres of arable, worth 4d. an acre; 10 acres of meadow, worth 12d. an acre; 10 acres of marsh, worth 3d. an acre; 2 water-mills, worth 40s. a

• Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Date: 05 December 1325 • Reference: C 131/2/14 • Subjects: Debt
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred], of Devon., and Gilbert at the...Moor of Hants

Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple. Addressed to John Stratford (dated) and London.
Debtor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury [lord of Dartmouth, Coleridge Hundred], of Devon., and Gilbert at the Moor of Hants.
Creditor: Henry de Cosford, citizen and blader [merchant] of London. Amount: 50marks

• Held by: The National Archives, Kew - Chancery, the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
Date: 1332 • Reference: C 241/104/185 • Subjects:  Debt | Trade and commerce
Debtor: John Somery of Devon.
Creditor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury, clerk [of London] Amount: £300. 

Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple. Description available at other catalogue level.
Debtor: John Somery of Devon.
Creditor: Nicholas de Tewkesbury, clerk [of London] Amount: £300.
Before whom: John de Pulteney, Mayor of London; Henry de St Osyth, Clerk.  
When taken: 09/07/1332 First Date:[1317-1320]

Related material:

For a copy of another writ formerly attached with this inquisition, see SC 8/162/8097

For a copy of another inquisition on the same matter, see SC 8/162/8096

For the petition to which this inquisition was formerly attached, see SC 8/162/8095

For a copy of the writ relating to this inquisition, see SC 8/162/8094

Clearly  he was involved as a merchant  engaged in trade 

 We dont know when Nicholas died but 1310 to 1380 as a trading merchant in the C14th is a bit of a stretch.
This might be just before he shuffled off this mortal coil , tying up his affairs as a very old man....

 He was trading in 1310 when he would have been of age , 21 ....

CP 25/1/44/63,   Medieval  Feet of Fines 1380 

Link:Image of document at AALT
County:Devon.  Place:Westminster. Date:  Two weeks from Easter, 3 Richard [II] [8 April 1380].
And afterwards one week from Holy Trinity, 5 Richard [II] [8 June 1382].

Parties querents,:Nicholas Kirkham ,  John Hulle ,  John Blake ,  John Fillegh' ,  Robert Hulle  and  Richard Foldhay ,  deforciant   Thomas de Beauchamp' ,

Property:The manors of  Clifton'  and  Clauton' , which  Nicholas de la Pom'ay  holds for life by the law of England.

Action:Plea of covenant.

Agreement:Thomas has granted for himself and his heirs that the manors - which Nicholas de la Pom'ay held for life by the law of England of the inheritance of Thomas on the day the agreement was made, and which after the decease of Nicholas de la Pom'ay ought to revert to Thomas and his heirs - after the decease of Nicholas de la Pom'ay shall remain to Nicholas Kirkham, John, John, John, Robert and Richard and the heirs of Robert, to hold of the chief lords for ever.Warranty:Warranty.For this:Nicholas Kirkham, John, John, John, Robert and Richard have given him 200 marks of silver.

6 sons of Sir Henry by his wife Joan Moels were 

1 st Sir Henry wife Emmot, Baron Pomeroy ; 

2nd John of Combe Raleigh father of Nicholas  ;
3rd William  born circa 1324 Captain of Castle Cornet at St Peter Port Guernsey , Man at Arms at Brest Garrison 1389  ;
4th Nicholas Sheriff of Devon (subject of this page) Lord of Dartmouth & ship owning merchant in Tewkesbury.
5th son Sir Thomas kings knight, wife Johane, son William b 1372 was  father of Edward who married Margaret Beville and took the Barony in 1426.

6th son Richard, heir of Henry seems to have died before his father
 

PUtting this man in context

The Black Death, Bubonic Plague, arrived from Europe in 1348 and 1352 decimating the population of England. Almost half the inhabitants of England died. 

Devon, with its dense agricultural based population, suffered more than any other county. In 2 years 17 churches lost 86 clergy to the pestilence. Exeter lost half its population in the first outbreak. Of those who survived a further quarter perished in the second outbreak. It must have been a terrible and terrifying time for everyone.

Significantly in the aftermath of  the ravages wrought by the Black Death the social boundaries became blurred. It became difficult to tell a newly enriched Merchant from a Gentleman simply by their appearance.  Merchants who aspired to gentility gradually  became a class in their own right ,the Middling  Class, who, with their new found wealth bought land on which they built great houses founded dynasties and began the gentrification process.

Thus the impoverished landed gentry, with their bloodlines but no ready money, found it expedient to marry their daughters off to the wealthy merchants who had money but no bloodline.

1367 England
The earliest date for a Common Ancestor for at least 2 Pomeroy lines of descent as established by DNA 

Richard II was born in 1367 & died 1400  son of the Black Prince eldest so of Edward III ( who died before his father.   Edward’s grandson became king at the age of 12,  In the aftermath of the catastrophic Black Death, agricultural workers were in demand but land owners Lords of the Manor , were reluctant to pay higher wages and their  land workers were tied to the Lord they lived under, unable to move to find better paid work without his permission.   

The first poll tax  levied in 1377 by King Richard II was to raise necessary money for a military expeditions on the continent. This first poll tax was a flat fee of one groat (four pence) on each person and essentially an experiment to raise funds.

The 2nd Poll Tax of 1379 was granted to the King by the  lords,  commoners  and  clergy  of England in order to finance the Hundred Years' War.  It was graduated according to each taxpayers rank or social position, thereby avoiding dissatisfaction based on inequality and unfairness. This poll tax was expected to net over £50,000, but the revenue never reached half that sum. 

The Heavy taxation caused an uprising and  Kentish rebels converged on London in 1381where the Tower of London was stormed . The young king  Richard appeared to handle  the Peasants Revolt well but he soon revealed a ruthless dishonesty when he reneged on all the promises he made to Watt Tyler and the other peasant leaders  and he had the uprisings leaders  executed.  

 Richards inclination towards tyranny progressed and England  became a very unhappy place under his rule.  In 1399  Richard II  was deposed by his cousin Henry Bolinbroke who was  son of John of Gaunt 3rd son of Edward II who took the throne  on  3rd April 1399 and reigned until 1413

This split the Plantagenet line for the throne between the House of Lancaster 3rd son John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster and the House of York  with Lionel of Antwerp, Edward III's 2nd son, & the 4th son  Edmund of Langley.   This was the beginnings of the Cousins War or Wars of the Roses.

Bolinbroke  had been living in France but under pressure from the new French king he left for England  and with a small group of followers, Bolingbroke landed at Ravenspur in Yorkshire towards the end of June 1399. 

 Men from all over the country soon rallied around him. Meeting with Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, who had his own misgivings about the king, Bolingbroke insisted that his only object was to regain his own patrimony. Percy took him at his word and declined to interfere. 

 King Richard had taken most of his household knights and the loyal members of his nobility with him to Ireland, so Bolingbroke experienced little resistance as he moved south. 

Keeper of the Realm Edmund, Duke of York, had little choice but to side with Bolingbroke.  Meanwhile, Richard was delayed in his return from Ireland and did not land in Wales until 24 July.  He made his way to Conwy, where on 12 August he met with the Earl of Northumberland for negotiations.  On 19 August, Richard surrendered to Henry Bolingbroke at Flint Castle, promising to abdicate if his life were spared.  Both men then returned to London, the indignant king riding all the way behind Henry. On arrival, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 1 September. 

Henry had agreed to let Richard live after his abdication. This  changed when it was found that the earls of Huntingdon, Kent, and Salisbury, and Lord Despenser, and possibly also the Earl of Rutland –  demoted from the ranks they had been given by Richard – were planning to murder the new king and restore Richard in the Epiphany Rising. 

This plot, although averted,  highlighted the danger of allowing Richard to live. He is thought to have been starved to death in captivity in Pontefract Castle on or around 14 February 1400, although there is some question over the date and manner of his death.  His body was taken south from Pontefract and displayed in St Paul's Cathedral on 17 February before burial in King's Langley Priory on 6 March.

  As the new king Henry IV found England  thrown  into economic chaos, by the effects of the Black Death and the undermining the old political order . He also, faced a number of rebellions, most seriously of which was in Wales with  Owain Glyndŵr, the self-proclaimed ruler of Wales.

Owain Glyn Dwr had served in Richard II's army in the 1380s and it may even have been loyalty to the deposed king that encouraged him to lead a revolt against Henry IV. In 1404 he received French support and presided over the first Welsh parliament. As Henry consolidated control over England, his son Henry (the future Henry V) led the campaigning in Wales. By 1409, the revolt was broken. Glyn Dwr turned to guerrilla warfare until his death in around 1416.

There was also  English knight Henry Percy (Hotspur),Earl of Northumberland

 who was killed in the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. 

Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, 4th Baron Percy, titular King of Mann, KG,  Lord Marshal (10 November 1341 – 20 February 1408) was the son of Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy.

Originally a follower of Edward III of England, from whom he held high offices in the administration of northern England. 

At a young age, he was made Warden of the Marches towards Scotland in 1362, with the authority to negotiate with the Scottish government. In February 1367, he was entrusted with the supervision of all castles and fortified places in the Scottish marches. He went on to support King Richard II, was formally created an Earl on Richard's coronation in 1377,  and was briefly given the title of Marshal of England. Between 1383 and 1384, he was appointed Admiral of the Northern Seas. 

After Richard elevated his rival Ralph Neville to the position of Earl of Westmorland in 1397, Percy and his son, also Henry and known as "Hotspur", supported the rebellion of Henry Bolingbroke, who became King as Henry IV.

On King Henry IV's coronation, Henry Percy was appointed Constable of England and granted the lordship of the Isle of Man. Percy and Hotspur were given the task of subduing the rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr, but their attempts to make peace with the Welsh rebels did not meet with the king's approval.

In 1403 the Percys turned against Henry IV in favour of Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, and then conspired with Owain Glyndŵr against Henry. The Percy rebellion failed at the Battle of Shrewsbury, where Hotspur was killed. Since the earl did not directly participate in the rebellion, he was not convicted of treason. However, he lost his office as Constable.

King Henry IV suffered from poor health in the latter part of his reign, and his eldest son, Henry of Monmouth, assumed the reins of government in 1410. 

Henry IV died in 1413, and was succeeded by his son, who reigned as Henry V.

His son Henry VI became  king of England and France before his first birthday when in 1422, Henry V died suddenly, leaving his son Henry, who was less than a year old  and England was ruled by a Regency Council.

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