Ernald de Percy

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• Background Information. ¹⁰⁶²
Kildale was the seat of the Percy family known as the Percys of Kildale. It is not known exactly how this family is related to Percys of Nothumberland, but Arnald de Percy witnessed William de Pery's foundation charter to Witby Abbey was likely the first ancestor of the Percys of Kildale.

Arnald de Percy (or possibly his son of the same name) held land of Robert Brus in Ormesby. Ormesby and Kildale were subsequently held together by the Percy family. Arnald or Ernold de Percy was probably the Arnald who in 1121, supported the monks of Durham in their claim on Tynemouth Church. Arnald made a grant of the church of Ormesby to the priory of Guisborough, which was confimed by his son Arnald whose confirmation was witnessed by his brother Robert.

~ A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2, pp. 249-253

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁶³
Grant by Ernald de Percy I to the canons of Guisborough of the church of Ormesby, the mill of Caldecotes, with the multure and the land which Ralph the miller held with it. 1129-c.1135. [Chartul. of Guisboro', f.215. Pd. in Chartul, n. 477]

Ernald de Percy attested the charter of William de Percy refounding, between 1088-1096, the abbey of St. Peter and St. Hilda of Whitby. When the monks of Durham were urging their claim to Tynemouth in 1121, of which they alleged that they had been wrongfully dispossessed by Robert de Mowbray, when earl of Northumberland, Ernald de Percy made a speech before the northern magnates assembled at York to consider the monks' claim, testifying to Mowbray's repentance of his injustice to the monks, when, after being severely wounded, he was captured by the royal barons on ground which he had wrongfully taken from the monks. This shows that Ernald had taken part in the suppression of the northern rebellion of 1095.

About 1135-1139, Ernald attested along with his sons an agreement between Whitby and Guisborough touching the tithe of lands in Ayresome, Acklam and the hamlets, and about the same time he gave to the cammons of Guisborough the church of Crathorn.

~ Early Yorkshire Charters, p. 90