Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameWilliam de Percy 1st Baron of Topcliffe, 29G Grandfather
Death1096, Near Jerusalem
BurialAntioch
Notes for William de Percy 1st Baron of Topcliffe
Known as Willame als gernons (meaning with whiskers later forming the name Algernon)
A Norman nobleman from Percy, Normandy (Percy-en-Auge) who came to England immediately after the Norman conquest of 1066.
At the time of the Doomsday Book he held 118 manors in Lincolnshire and North Riding of Yorkshire and others in Essex and Hampshire
Accompanied Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy on the First Crusade. He died within site of Jerusalem. His body was buried at Antioch and his heart returned to England and buried at Whitby Abbey.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Percy
A Norman nobleman from Percy, Normandy (Percy-en-Auge) who came to England immediately after the Norman conquest of 1066.
At the time of the Doomsday Book he held 118 manors in Lincolnshire and North Riding of Yorkshire and others in Essex and Hampshire
Accompanied Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy on the First Crusade. He died within site of Jerusalem. His body was buried at Antioch and his heart returned to England and buried at Whitby Abbey.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Percy