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Birth:          ABT 1034 Percy-en-Auge, Normandy
Death:          1096 Montjoie, nearr Jerusalem
Burial:         Montjoie, near Jerusalem

Notes
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Note: William de Percy; born c1030, allegedly travelled with Hugh d'Avranches, later 
Earl of Chester, from Normandy to England, though not necessarily as early as 1066. 
He seems to have been granted a Barony (at this time a territorial possession rather 
than peerage) of 30 knight's fees following the Conquest, though 20 years later the 
Domesday Survey mentions him as holding much more: 80 Lordships in Yorkshire and 
32 in Lincolnshire, together with other land in Essex, Notts and Hambledon, Hants (the 
last acquired through his marriage). He helped reconstruct York Castle 1070 after it 
was destroyed by the Danes and accompanied William I The Conqueror on his 
invasion of Scotland 1072. He was a tenant-in-chief of William at the time of 
Domesday and under-tenant of Hugh, Earl of Chester. It was Hugh, Earl of Chester, 
who had been granted the lion's share of Gospatric, Earl of Northumberland's lands 
following the latter's rebellion against William in 1069. William de Percy helped 
Gospatric win forgiveness from William The Conqueror, however, and was granted 
some of the forfeited lands as a sub-tenant by Hugh. William de Percy was known by 
contemperaries under the sobriquet "als gernons" ("William with the Whiskers"), 
whence the frequency of the forename Algernon in the family ever since. He 
refounded the Abbey of St Hilda, Yorkshire, of which his brother Serlo de Percy 
became first Prior; married Emma, sometimes called daughter and heiress, but certainly 
a close relative, of Hugh de Port, feudal Lord of Semer, near Scarborough, and a 
Saxon, and accompanied Duke Robert of Normandy on the First Crusade, during 
which he died 1096 at Montjoie or Mountjoy, near Jerusalem, a peak so called 
because it was there where Christians on pilgrimage to the Holy City first got a view of 
their destination. [Burke's Peerage]

Parents
DE PERCY Geoffrey (ABT 1005 - )
____ Margaret (BEF 1012 - )

Siblings
DE PERCY William ("Whiskers") (ABT 1034 - 1096)

Marriage To DE PORT Emma (ABT 1049 - AFT 1096)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE PORT Hugh (ABT 1030 - AFT 1066)
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Children by DE PORT Emma ABT 1049 - AFT 1096
DE PERCY Allan (Algernon) (ABT 1067 - BEF Dec 1135)
DE PERCY Ernald (Arnold) (ABT 1071 - AFT 1109)

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