Smithson was the inheritor of the fortune and lands of the Percy family of Northumberland, whose ancestor, Sir Henry Percy, commonly known as ‘Harry Hotspur’, inspired Tottenham Hotspur’s name and its ...

Anne's father was the courtier and diplomat, Sir Thomas Boleyn and her mother ... at court and by 1523 she was betrothed to Lord Henry Percy. However this relationship was cut short by Cardinal ...