Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

Entries for the tag ‘Percy, Henry (ca. 1502-37)’

6th Earl of Northumberland, as a boy served at the court of Thomas Wolsey, active as a military officer in the north, now primarily remembered as the first betrothed of Anne Boleyn.

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