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Sir Henry Percy, called Hotspur (1366-1403), English military leader, eldest son of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland. Knighted in 1377 by Edward III, king of England, Percy shortly began that service on the Scottish border in which he won his greatest fame, and about 1393 he became governor of Bordeaux, in France. He was killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury after he had revolted against King Henry IV.

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