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Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1820–1911) was the wife of Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland.
Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Buckingham (c. 1474 [citation needed] – 13 February 1530), was the eldest daughter of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, by his wife, Lady Maud Herbert, daughter of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
Eleanor Percy, duquesa de Buckingham (ca. 1474 – 13 de febrero de 1530), también llamada Alianore, era la hija mayor de Henry Percy, IV conde de Northumberland y Lady Maud Herbert, hija de William Herbert, conde de Pembroke.
When Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Northumberland was born on 6 January 1583, in Petworth, Sussex, England, her father, Sir Henry Percy 8th Earl of Northumberland, was 51 and her mother, Catherine Neville, was 37. She married Sir William Herbert Knight of the Bath, Lord and Baron of Powys in 1597.
Elizabeth Percy was responsible for Alnwick Castle becoming a family residence. Her romantic ideas about her ‘braw rough ancestors’ and her passion for the castle and landscape were matched by the vision of her husband, Sir Hugh Smithson.
Daughter of Henry Percy, 4th earl of Northumberland, and Maud Herbert. She may have been brought up in the household of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, along with her future husband, Edward Stafford, 3rd duke of Buckingham and his brother Henry. They married on 14 Dec 1490.
Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, married the landowner and philanthropist Algernon Percy, fourth duke of Northumberland, in 1842. When the Duke died in 1865, ownership of their home, Stanwick Hall, passed to the Duchess where she continued to live until her death in 1911.
