And here we have…Harry Hotspur. The picture is from here, an interesting site about the Percy family. This is said to be a very good likeness of Hotspur, although how anyone can really know that I’m not sure. Clearly he conforms to a Percy “type”.
The section dealing with the Percys under Richard III is under construction, so it’s a case of watching this space.
[…] ago that Midland Red were still running the buses) but at the time I failed to appreciate how well Henry Hotspur had chosen his defensive ground. To advance up that slope into a storm of arrows must have required […]
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[…] Percy family were the most potent of these opponents. The Earl of Northumberland, his son, Henry Hotspur, and his brother, Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, had all initially supported Bolingbroke, but all […]
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[…] (b.c.1392 d.1436) daughter of the famous Henry Percy – who earned himself the sobriquet of ‘Hotspur’ – and widow of John, Lord Clifford. Ralph and Elizabeth would have a son John, named […]
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[…] With him too went his son Harry, a boy of eight—afterwards to hew his way to fame as ‘Harry Hotspur’….” This is a very specific record of his army, and as it was after Duns, then Duns had […]
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[…] not factual either. It happened almost exactly eighty years earlier and concerns the death of Henry “Hotspur” Percy at the Battle of Shrewsbury on 21 July 1403. I found it in a delightful and beautifully presented […]
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