PERCIVAL

PERCIVAL. Camden places this among baptismal names. The Earl of Egmont claims to be descended from a family who were seated at Weston-Gordeyn, in Somersetshire, in the reign of Richard Co2ur de Lion. The original Percival was a cadet of the great Norman family of Yvery. See Gen. Hist, of House of Yvery, privately printed in 1742.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.