Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland

Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (1528–1572), was an English Catholic nobleman whose father was executed after the Pilgrimage of Grace. Restored to his lands under Mary I, he retook Scarborough Castle in 1557 and was created earl, later warden of the northern marches.

In 1569 northern Catholics planned to free Mary, Queen of Scots and win freedom of worship. That November Percy joined Westmorland in the Rising of the North, occupying Durham and hearing Mass. He fled to Scotland, was captured and sold to the crown for two thousand pounds, and was beheaded at York on 22 August 1572 rather than renounce his faith. He was beatified in 1895.