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Also Known As Hotspur
Born May 20, 1364
Died July 21, 1403 (aged 39) • Shrewsbury • England
House / Dynasty Percy family
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
English statesman
William III
William III
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Henry IV
Henry IV
king of England
Frederick Herman, duke of Schomberg
German soldier
Henry Percy, 1st earl of Northumberland
English noble
Earl of Totnes, detail of an oil painting after a portrait, c. 1615–20; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Carew, earl of Totnes
English administrator
Robert Walker: Henry Ireton
Henry Ireton
British statesman
Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell
English politician
Ludlow; portrait by an unknown artist
Edmund Ludlow
English soldier and politician
Lambert Simnel
English pretender
Jack Cade
English revolutionary
George Booth, 1st Baron Delamere
English politician
Wat Tyler
English revolutionary
Thomas Percy, earl of Worcester
English noble
James Butler, 1st duke of Ormonde
James Butler, 12th earl and 1st duke of Ormonde
Irish noble
Godard van Reede, 1st earl of Athlone
Dutch soldier
Lord Dundee, ink miniature by David Paton; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st viscount of Dundee
Scottish soldier
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore
British statesman
Priscilla Alden
English colonist
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the younger [died 1326]