Agnes de Percy
- Born: Topcliffe, North Riding, Yorkshire, England
- Marriage: Joscelin de Louvain between 1156 and 1161 in England 141
- Died: Bef 13 Oct 1204, England 141
 Noted events in her life were:
• Background Information. 1407
Agnes de Percy, daughter and coheir of William de Percy II, married between 1156 and 1161 Jocelin of Lovaine, son of Godfrey duke of Lower Lorraine and brother of queen Adeliza, second wife of king Henry I. He was lord of the honour of Petworth, and died in the year eding at Michaelmas 1180. Agnes died between 1201 and 13 Oct 1204.
Children of Agnes and Jocelin were:
Henry de Percy who married Isabel daughter of Adam de Brus II.
Richard de Percy
Jocelin
Ralph
Maud de Percy, the wife of John de Daiville, to whom her mother gave land in Catton in frank-marriage. [Yorks. Fines, 1232-46, p.164]
~Early Yorkshire Charters, Vol. XI, pp. 5-6
• Background Information. 141
Agnes de Percy, daughter and coheir of William de Percy by his first wife Adeliza Clare, married, after 1154, Jocelin of Louvain, brother of Queen Adeliz, second wife of of Henry I, king of England. Before her death in 1151, Queen Adeliz and her second husband, William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel, gave to Jocelin the honor of Petworth, Susses, as a dependency of her honor of Arundel. In 1166, Joceline held 5˝ knights' fees among other tenants-in-chief in Yorkshire, and in 1172 paid 6 li. for scutage there. In Dec. 1170, he was on of two knights to forbid Archbishop Becket's approach to the young king's court; and he witnessed hcarters of Henry II at Argentan, Winchester and Tours. He visited the Holy Land, probably circa 1174. From lands of the honor of Petworth he became a benefactor of Reading amd Durford Abbeys, and of Lewes Priory; and from lands of the Percy fee a benefactor of Sixle Priory. With his son Henry, he confirmed gifts made by William de Percy to Fountains Abbey. He prseumably died in the year eding at Michealmas 1180, when the honor of Petworth had passed into the King's hand.
In 1182, Agnes de Percy was a party to a final concord relating to land in Dalton, par. Topcliffe. At Michaelmas 1196, she paid 40 markks for having her scutage of 15 Knights. To her younger son, Richard, she gave 5 knights' fees, with her demesne of Cotton, and interests in Stamford Bridge, the city of York, and Ludford, Lincolnshire. She was a benefactor of Byland Abbey, St. Peter's Hospital, York, and Kirkham, Nun Monkton, and Sixle Priories; and she confirmed a gift of her father's to Whitby Abbey. She was alive in the year ending at Michaelmas 1202, and died before 13 Oct 1204.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. X. pp. 445-448
Agnes married Joscelin de Louvain, son of Godefroi de Brabant comté de Louvain and Clemence de Bourgogne, between 1156 and 1161 in England.141 (Joscelin de Louvain was born in 1121 in Louvain, Belgium and died in 1180 in England 141,1407.)
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