Alan de Percy of Topcliffe
d. 1135
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Alan de Percy, son of the Domesday founder, held the Yorkshire honour through the reign of Henry I and consolidated what his father's hundred manors had begun. He died about 1135, and the line ran down through three more Williams to the buyer of Alnwick.
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ALAN de PERCY (d. c.1135), son of William de Percy the Domesday baron; father of William de Percy II (our line). Direct ancestor. ||27 Oct 2026 - WIFE WIRED (✓/~)|| Emma de Gant, 'da. of Gilbert de Gant, by Alice, da. of Hugh de Montfort' (CP X 'Percy' p.439 - the parentage 'strongly supported on chronological grounds', at ~). CP: Alan 'apparently bore the cognomen of Asgernuns or Ohtlesgernuns ... in allusion, perhaps, to his moustaches or whiskers; whence the name Algernon'; held his father's lands in Lindsey 1115-18; at Durham Easter 1121; witnessed Henry I's notifications 1109-29; benefactor of St Peter's Hospital, York; 'living in 1130, and d. probably before Dec. 1135' (pp.438-440). Source: Complete Peerage 2nd ed. vol. X (1945), 'Percy' pp.435-447 and notes (page images supplied by Aynsley, read 27 Oct 2026).