James Percival

1467 - 1536  (69 years)

• Name	James Percival
  Birth	1467	of Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1468  [6]
  Death	23 Jun 1536  [7]
  Burial	Chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, Church of St. Paul, Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset, England   [4]
  Person ID	I22198	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	John Percival,   b. 1447   d. 25 Sep 1498 (Age 51 years)
  Mother	Joan   d. 28 Nov 1499
  Family ID	F17689	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan Kenne
  Children	+ 1. Edmund Percival,   b. Abt 1506, of Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset, England d. 21 Sep 1551 (Age ~ 45 years)
  Family ID	F13414	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Also spelled Perceval. According to the 1789 Peerage of Ireland, he was made a Knight of the Bath on the occasion of the 14 Nov 1501 marriage of the prince Arthur, son of Henry VII, to Catherine of Aragon. "In 13 Henry VIII, 1524, after a long dispute at law, he recovered from the Lady Elizabeth, widow of Richard, son of Sir John Newton, the presentation of the church of Exford, a great living dependant upon his manor of Eastbury, which had been usurped for above a hundred years successively by Sir Richard Cheddar, Talbot Viscount Lisle, and Sir John Newton; which pleading is on many accounts very remarkable, but more particularly as it sets forth no less than nine generations of this family in direct succession (besides collaterals) from the reign of K. Henry III to the year we have mentioned, 1524, and establishes thereby an accuracy in the accounts of this family, that can be found in few others." [The Peerage of Ireland, or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of That Kingdom, citation details below] The abovementioned pleading is transcribed in A Genealogical History of the House of Yvery, volume 1, pages 417-19. Both of the eighteenth-century sources here claim that James Percival died in 1550, but Fradd and Richardson (citation details below) cite both his 15 June 1536 will and his IPM (1536, Exchequer Series II, 925:29 - PRO E 150/925/29), the latter of which provides his date of death. The Genealogical History of the House of Yvery reproduces his 1536 will, but (evidently inaccurately) describes it as "dated fourteen Years before his Death".

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., place only. [S2707] Brandon Fradd and Douglas Richardson, "The Royal Ancestry of Percival Lowell." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 157:309, 2003., place only. [S4299] The Peerage of Ireland, or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of That Kingdom by John Lodge, rev. Mervyn Archdall. Volume 2. Dublin: James Moore, 1789. [S4300] A Genealogical History of the House of Yvery; in its Different Branches of Yvery, Luvel, Percival, and Gournay by James Anderson. 2 volumes. London: H. Woodfall, 1742. [S50] Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Second edition, 2011., place only. [S5882] Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015. [S2707] Brandon Fradd and Douglas Richardson, "The Royal Ancestry of Percival Lowell." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 157:309, 2003.