Isabel (Percy) de Aton (abt. 1320 - bef. 1368)

Born about 1320 in Northumberland, England

Ancestors

Wife of William (Aton) de Aton — married before Jan 1327 in England

Descendants

Died before 25 May 1368 before about age 48 in Alnwick, Northumberland

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Biography

Isabel was the daughter of Henry de Percy and idoine de Clifford.^[1][2][3][4] She may have been born in Northumberland, where her father had his main lands. Her birth date is not known and has been guesstimated on the basis that her father was born in about 1300.^[5][6]

Before January 1326/7 Isabel married William de Aton,^[4] son of Gilbert de Aton of Yorkshire.^[1][2][3] She and her husband were named in her father's 1349 Will.^[7] They had the following children:

• William,^[2][3] named in the Will of Isabel's include Thomas de Percy.^[4]
• Anastasia, who married Edward St John^[1][2][3]
• Katherine, who married Ralph Eure^[1][2][3]
• Elizabeth, who married William Playce and John Conyers^[1][2][3][8]

Isabel died before May 25, 1368.^[1][2][3] when her uncle Thomas de Percy made his Will.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. I, St Catherine Press, 1910, pp. 325-326, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. IV, pp. 95-96, STAPLETON 8
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. I, pp. 570-571, BROMFLETE 12
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Egerton Brydges. Collins's Peerage of England, greatly augmented and continued to the present time, Vol. II, 1812, p. 245, Internet Archive
5. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, Vol. III, pp. 335-336, PERCY 7, partially viewable on Google Books
6. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 350, PERCY 9
7. ↑ Testamenta Eboracensia, Vol. I, Surtees Society, 1836, pp. 57-60, Internet Archive
8. ↑ Charles Best Norcliffe (ed.). The Visitations of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, Harleian Society, 1881, p. 71, Internet Archive

• Banks, T C. Baronies in Fee, Vol. I, privately printed, 1844, p. 109, Internet Archive
• Clay, J W. The Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, James Nisbet, 1913, p. 4, Internet Archive
• Nicolas, N Harris. The Controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor, Vol. II, 1832, pp. 347-350, Internet Archive
• Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 8th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, p. 187, line 206/34
• Wikipedia: William de Aton, 2nd Baron Aton

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 15 December 2022

Isabel Percy is a descendant of Magna Carta Surety Barons Hugh le Bigod, Roger le Bigod, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, John de Lacy, and Saher de Quincy. This profile appears in project approved/badged trails to the following Gateway Ancestors:

• Joseph Bolles (MCA I:247-249 BOLLES): the trail to the Bigods is set out HERE.
• Henry Corbin (MCA I:533-535 CORBIN): badged trail was connected to this Gateway before 2018. The trails are set out HERE.

Isabel also appears in unbadged trails (needing work) to the following Gateways:

• Nelson Gateways (Philip and Thomas) (MCA IV:95-101 STAPLETON): several trails need development. They can be seen HERE.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".