Agnes de Percy
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Agnes de Percy was co-heiress of the great Domesday barony of Percy and carried its name down to her descendants.
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AGNES de PERCY (d.1203), dau. and co-heiress of William de Percy (d.1175); wife of Josceline de Louvain; mother of Henry de Percy (our line). Carries the DOMESDAY PERCY line. Direct ancestress. ||27 Oct 2026 - MOTHER WIRED (✓)|| Alice de Tonbridge - Agnes's own Sawley charter is for the souls of 'Willielmi de Percy patris mei et Adelidis de Tunebrigge matris meae' (Medieval Lands, PERCY). Her mother's Clare parentage is ~. Source: Medieval Lands (Charles Cawley, fmg.ac), read in the browser 27 Oct 2026, 'English Lords P-S' - PERCY, citing the Whitby and Sawley charters and the Pipe Rolls 1165/66 and 1169/70. ||27 Oct 2026 - MOTHER CONFIRMED (✓)|| CP X 'Percy' p.445: 'Agnes de Percy, da. and coh. of William de Percy, by 1st wife, m., after 1154, Jocelin of Louvain, br. of Queen Adeliz, 2nd wife of Henry I'; at Michaelmas 1194 she paid for her share of her father's fee; 'in her widowhood she saved the Abbey [Sallay] from destruction by endowing it, 25 Mar. 1189, with the church of Tadcaster'. The tree's Jocelin is Godfrey I of Louvain's son; CP X p.446 n.(l) (G. W. Watson) notes that his mother may equally have been Duke Godfrey's 2nd wife Clemence of Burgundy as that he was illegitimate - mother not wired. Source: Complete Peerage 2nd ed. vol. X (1945), 'Percy' pp.435-447 and notes (page images supplied by Aynsley, read 27 Oct 2026).