Sir Richard Percy (died 1648) was an English soldier who served in Ireland during the 1590s.
[Falls p.216]
He was part of the
Percy Family, the son of
Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland
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and younger brother of
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland.
Following the outbreak of
Tyrone's Rebellion in Ireland, he raised a regiment, of which the majority were drawn from
Wales
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, to supplement the under-strength
Irish Army
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. The regiment was badly mauled during the
Battle of the Yellow Ford in 1598 when, as the
advance guard of the relief expedition to a besieged fort on the
River Blackwater, they were attacked by
Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone
Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone (; – 20 July 1616) was an Irish lord and key figure of the Nine Years' War. Known as the "Great Earl", he led the confederacy of Irish lords against the English Crown in resistance to the Tudor conquest of Ir ...
's rebel forces. Percy's regiment suffered heavy losses in what amounted to a major defeat in which the
Marshal of Ireland, Sir
Henry Bagenal, was killed.
References
Bibliography
* Falls, Cyril. ''Elizabeth's Irish Wars''. Constable, 1996.
1648 deaths
16th-century English soldiers
17th-century English soldiers
17th-century English knights
Year of birth unknown
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