Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland

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Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland (c. 1564–August 3, 1619), was the younger daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex by Lettice Knollys, and the wife of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland.

In 1583 she married Sir Thomas Perrot, who died in 1594. They had three daughters, Penelope, Dorothy and Elizabeth. Shortly after her first husband's death, she married Henry Percy, but the marriage was not a success, and they separated. In 1605, the earl was sent to the Tower of London, and was not freed until after his wife's death.

They had four children: Lady Dorothy Percy, Lucy Percy, Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, and Henry Percy.