Elizabeth Mortimer

Elizabeth Mortimer
Lady Percy
Baroness Camoys
The tomb at St. George's Church, Trotton of Elizabeth and her husband, Thomas de Camoys
Born12 February 1371
Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
Died20 April 1417
Trotton, Sussex, England
Noble familyMortimer
Spouse(s)Henry 'Hotspur' Percy
Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys
IssueHenry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland
Elizabeth Percy, Countess of Westmorland
Sir Roger Camoys
FatherEdmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March
MotherPhilippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster

Elizabeth Mortimer, Lady Percy and Baroness Camoys (12 February 1371 – 20 April 1417), was a medieval English noblewoman, the granddaughter of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, and great-granddaughter of King Edward III. Her first husband was Sir Henry Percy, known to history as 'Hotspur'. She married secondly Thomas Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys. She is represented as 'Kate, Lady Percy,' in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, and briefly again as 'Widow Percy' in Henry IV, Part 2.


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