Perceval was an emblem bearer at his funeral and, although he had little money to spare ( by now he had eleven children ), he contributed £ 1000 towards a fund to pay off Pitt ’ s debts.

A grail, wondrous but not explicitly " holy ", first appears in Perceval le Gallois, an unfinished romance by Chrétien de Troyes: it is a processional salver used to serve at a feast.

Chrétien's final romance was Perceval, the Story of the Grail, written between 1181 and 1190, but left unfinished, though some scholars have disputed this.

It is generally acknowledged that the text is related to Chrétien de Troyes ' unfinished Old French poem Perceval ( c. 1181 x 1191 ), but the nature of this relation has been a topic of lively debate, notably the question if and to what extent the Welsh tale was adapted from Perceval.

Perceval, the story of the Grail () is the unfinished fifth romance of Chrétien de Troyes.

Peredur son of Efrawg is associated with Chrétien de Troyes ' unfinished romance Perceval, the Story of the Grail, but it contains many striking differences from that work, most notably the absence of the French poem's central object, the grail.

In Chretien de Troyes's Perceval, Gawain carries Escalibor and it is stated, " for at his belt hung Excalibor, the finest sword that there was, which sliced through iron as through wood " (" Qu ' il avoit cainte Escalibor, la meillor espee qui fust, qu ' ele trenche fer come fust .").

The Grail is first featured in Perceval, le Conte du Graal ( The Story of the Grail ) by Chrétien de Troyes, who claims he was working from a source book given to him by his patron, Count Philip of Flanders.

* Verses by Rigaut de Barbezieux, a late 12th or early 13th century Provençal troubador, where mention is made of Perceval, the lance, and the Grail (" Like Perceval when he lived, who stood amazed in contemplation, so that he was quite unable to ask what purpose the lance and grail served "-" Attressi con Persavaus el temps que vivia, que s ' esbait d ' esgarder tant qu ' anc non saup demandar de que servia la lansa ni-l grazaus ").

From the perspective of Arthur, perhaps the most significant effect of this great outpouring of new Arthurian story was on the role of the king himself: much of this 12th-century and later Arthurian literature centres less on Arthur himself than on characters such as Lancelot and Guenevere, Perceval, Galahad, Gawain, and Tristan and Isolde.

Peel made his maiden speech at the start of the 1810 session, when he was chosen by the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, to second the reply to the king's speech.

Expertly defended by Spencer Perceval, he was exonerated.

The Fisher King first appears in Chrétien de Troyes's 12th century French romance Perceval, the Story of the Grail ; he has been dealt a mortal wound in the leg ( Brân's wound was in his foot ) but stays alive in his mystical castle due to the effects of the Grail, waiting to be healed by Percival.

His mother, born Jane Perceval, was a granddaughter of prime minister Spencer Perceval.

Palmerston's speech was so successful that Perceval, who formed his government in 1809, asked him to become Chancellor of the Exchequer, then a less important office than it was to become from the mid nineteenth century.

His mother was Renée Chabot, daughter of Perceval Chabot and heiress of La Turmelière ( Plus me plaît le séjour qu ' ont bâti mes aïeux ).

At first this knight was believed to be Perceval ; however it is later discovered to be Galahad.

In March 1807, after the collapse of the Ministry of all the Talents, Pitt's supporters returned to power ; and Portland was, once again, an acceptable figurehead for a fractious group of ministers that included George Canning, Lord Castlereagh, Lord Hawkesbury, and Spencer Perceval.

Spencer Perceval, KC ( 1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812 ) was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 4 October 1809 until his death on 11 May 1812.

The younger son of an Irish earl, Perceval was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Perceval was opposed to Catholic emancipation and reform of Parliament ; he supported the war against Napoleon and the abolition of the slave trade.

Although Perceval was a seventh son and had four older brothers who survived to adulthood, the Earldom of Egmont reverted to one of his great-grandsons in the early 20th century and remained in the hands of his descendants until its extinction in 2011.

Perceval was the seventh son of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont ; he was the second son of the earl ’ s second marriage.

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

Among the podestà-troubadours to follow Rambertino, four were from Genoa: the Guelphs Luca Grimaldi, who also served in Florence, Milan, and Ventimiglia, and Luchetto Gattilusio, who served in Milan, Cremona, and Bologna, and the Ghibellines Perceval Doria, who served in Arles, Avignon, Asti, and Parma, and Simon Doria, sometime podestà of Savona and Albenga.

Perceval is survived by his four children ; Matthew, Tessa, Celia and Alice all of whom are practicing artists today.

Sir Galahad does not feature in any romance by Chrétien de Troyes, or in Robert de Boron's Perceval, or in any of the continuations of Chrétien's story of the mysterious castle of the Fisher King.

It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival ( Percival ) and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.

Éric Rohmer's 1978 film Perceval le Gallois is an eccentrically staged interpretation of Chrétien de Troyes's original poem.

Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval ( c. 1175 ) is doubtless based on an Anglo-Norman poem.

The poem, commonly dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, is itself largely based on Chrétien de Troyes ’ s Perceval, the Story of the Grail and mainly centers on the Arthurian hero Parzival ( Percival in English ) and his long quest for the Holy Grail following his initial failure to achieve it.

Then at the Malaspina court, he penned a poem attacking a quintet of Occitan poets at the court of Manfred III of Saluzzo: Peire Guilhem de Luserna, Perceval Doria, Nicoletto da Torino, Chantarel, and Trufarel.

The poem breaks off before the matter is resolved, though a later author tied up some of the loose threads in the First Continuation of Perceval.

The poem relates the adventures and growing pains of the young knight Perceval but the story breaks off, there follows an adventure of Gawain of similar length that also remains incomplete: there are some 9, 000 lines in total, whereas Chretien's other romances seldom exceed 7, 000 lines.

The poem opens with Perceval, whose mother has raised him apart from civilization in the forests of Wales.

The Elucidation is an anonymous Old French poem of the early 13th century, which was written to serve as a prologue to Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, le Conte du Graal.

He waited in the lobby until the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, appeared, then stepped forward and shot him through the heart.

But Grenville ’ s ministry fell – again over a difference of opinion with the King on the Catholic question – before the book could be distributed and, as a member of the new Government, Perceval drafted a cabinet minute acquitting Caroline on all charges and recommending her return to court.

Perceval, who had been warned against talking too much, remains silent through all of this, and wakes up the next morning alone.

Today, this also includes its offices at Perceval House just next to it.

It was during the next session of Parliament, in January 1798, that Perceval established his reputation as a debater — and his prospects as a future minister — with a speech in support of the Assessed Taxes Bill ( a bill to increase the taxes on houses, windows, male servants, horses and carriages, in order to finance the war against France ).

In December select committees of the Lords and Commons heard evidence from the doctors, and Perceval finally wrote to the Prince of Wales on 19 December saying that he planned the next day to introduce a Regency Bill.

The latter year Pitt made him Lord Privy Seal, a position he would hold under five prime Ministers ( Pitt, Addington, Pitt again, Portland, Perceval and Liverpool ) for the next 35 years, except between 1806 and 1807 when Lord Grenville was in office.

Perceval, who had been warned against talking too much, remains silent through all of this and wakes up the next morning alone.