Henri Percy (9th count de Northumberland)
Henry Percy called “ the count wizard ” (the Wizard Earl) (1564, with the castle of Petworth House, Sussex - 1632), 9th count de Northumberland, was humanistic and a patron of sciences and arts. Compromised in the Conspiracy of the powders, he was imprisoned with the Tour of London of November 1605 to 1621.
Henry Percy was raised by his father (a crypto-catholic, however) in the Protestant religion. He was afflicted with deafness. After having spent a few years to France to perfect its education of gentleman there, it briefly took part in the countryside of Élizabeth Ière in Flandres with the beginning of the year 1590. Decorated with the Order of the Garter (1593), it was devoted consequently to the administration of its field and the scientific research (medicine, alchemy, astronomy, geography, mathematics). It for had protected three scientists, called the three Magis (three magicians): Thomas Harriot, the algebrist and doctor William Warner, and the Robert cartographer Hoot. This coterie, which had also dealings with Walter Raleigh, appeared mysterious to the contemporaries, and gave credit to the XXe century with hypothetical a Ecole of the night.
In 1594, it had acquired, by marriage with Dorothy Devereux, the manor of Syon and the Percy family since preserved this London residence and its splendid park.
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