Reply #11: So your husband and I are (very) distant cousins.

[Spider Jerusalem]

(I'm also descended from the Percys, something like twenty generations back.)


Here's another castle that was held by the Percys (Warkworth Castle, also in Northumberland, which forms part of the setting for Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1)
http://www.gorzow.mm.pl/~bebelebe/Warkworth%20Castle,%20Northumberland,%20England.jpg

and here are a few places some of my other ancestors lived that I find rather fascinating:

Arundel Castle in Sussex (held by the Earls of Arundel since the eleventh century)



Raby Castle in County Durham (formerly the property of the Neville family, until Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, lost his lands and titles by bill of attainder for his part in leading a revolt against Elizabeth I in favour of the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots...and, interestingly, the other prominent figure in the revolt was Thomas Percy, the 7th Earl of Northumberland, who was executed for treason).