Richard de Percival

- Abt 1200

• Name	Richard de Percival  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	Between 1200 and 1201  [2]
  Death	Abt 1200  [3, 4]
  Burial	Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I29686	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Richard de Percival   bur. Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset, England
  Family ID	F17710	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Aug 2020

  
  

• Notes

  According to the 1789 Peerage of Ireland, he accompanied Richard I on crusade in 1190, and lost a leg in an engagement in Palestine. He is said to have married a daughter of "William de Moion (Mohun), Lord of Dunster", but which of the several William de Mohuns of Dunster her father would have been eludes us; we have been unable to find any reference to any of their daughters marrying a Percival. He is also said by eighteenth-century sources, and by some editions of Burke's, to have been the fifth son of William Lovel (d. 1170) and his wife Maud (d. 1189. Called variously Maud of Meulan and Maud de Beaumont, this Maud was a daughter of Isabel de Vermandois by her first husband, Robert of Meulan, and through her mother a 10G-granddaughter of Charlemagne. But there seems to be no contemporary evidence that William Lovel and his wife Maud had more than three sons. And it would hardly be the only time that the 16th-through-18th-century descendants of a long line of backwoods gentry managed to discover an ancestry that connected them to highborn figures of the first millennium AD.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4301] The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset by John Collinson. Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1791. [S5882] Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015. [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.