Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, KG was an English nobleman. He was a grandee and one of the wealthiest peers of the court of Elizabeth I. Under James I, Northumberland was a long-term prisone
Henry Percy 9th Earl of Northumberland
Large portrait miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, 1590–95
Peele wrote a poem The Honour of the Garter, dedicated to Northumberland and for the occasion of his admission to the Order of the Garter, on 26 June 1593.
Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland was the younger daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex by Lettice Knollys, and the wife of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland. Lady Dorothy Percy
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
…north of England, Northumberland also had estates in the south at Petworth House in Sussex and at Syon House in Middlesex, acquired by his marriage to Lady Dorothy Devereux (sister of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex) in 1594. They had four children…
Portrait identified as Dorothy Devereux (on the left) and her elder sister Penelope Devereux, c.1581