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.

Perceval, although unfinished, was particularly popular: four separate continuations of the poem appeared over the next half century, with the notion of the Grail and its quest being developed by other writers such as Robert de Boron, a fact that helped accelerate the decline of Arthur in continental romance.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

While dining in the magical abode of the Fisher King, Perceval witnesses a wondrous procession in which youths carry magnificent objects from one chamber to another, passing before him at each course of the meal.

A one time prime minister, Spencer Perceval made his home at Elm House.

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

After many adventures, Sir Galahad and Sir Perceval find themselves at the court of King Pelles and Eliazar, his son.

Perceval studied at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Perceval ’ s early childhood was spent at Charlton House, which his father had taken to be near Woolwich docks.

Perceval, who was at that time an impecunious barrister on the Midland Circuit, was told to wait until younger daughter Jane came of age in three years ’ time.

Perceval was buried on 16 May in the Egmont vault at St Luke's Church, Charlton.

Perceval's statue at Northampton Guildhall by Sir Francis Chantrey, 1817 Perceval was a small, slight, and very pale man, who usually dressed in black.

Perceval was mourned by many ; Lord Chief Justice Sir James Mansfield wept during his summing up to the jury at Bellingham's trial.

* Henry ( 1799 – 1885 ) was educated at Harrow, where he was the only Perceval to become Head of School.

The latter, knowing Napoleon's desire for peace at the close of 1809, undertook to make secret overtures to the British cabinet of Spencer Perceval.

* Perceval page from the Camelot Project at the University of Rochester

In the House of Lords on 25th April 2012 it was asserted " Lord Lexden: My Lords, would my noble friend think of reminding Mr Henry Bellingham that he has already experienced the Perceval family's taste for revenge, having been deprived of his Commons seat at the 1997 election by a direct descendant of the assassinated Prime Minister?

He was invested a member of the Privy Council in 1801 and held office under Henry Addington as Treasurer of the Navy from 1801 to 1803 and as Secretary at War from 1803 to 1804, under the Duke of Portland and Spencer Perceval as Master of the Mint from 1806 to 1810 and under Lord Liverpool as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1812 to 1823 and as President of the Board of Control from 1821 to 1822.

The son of John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont and Catherine Parker ( daughter of Sir Philip Parker, 2nd Baronet of Arwarton ), he was baptised at Westminster Palace, London.

Lord Perceval died 4 December 1770 at Pall Mall, London, aged 59.

He retired in 1984, by which time he had become the fourth ( and last ) Perceval Maitland Laurence Reader in Classics at Cambridge.

Perceval Landon was born in 1868 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford.

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.

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

Perceval ’ s mother had died in 1783, and Perceval and his brother Charles, now Lord Arden, rented a house in Charlton, where they fell in love with two sisters who were living in the Percevals ' old childhood home.

Pitt described the speech as one of the best he had ever heard, and later that year Perceval was given the post of Solicitor to the Ordnance.

Elm Grove was a 16th-century house that had been the home of the Bishop of Durham ; Perceval paid £ 7, 500 for it in 1808 ( borrowing from his brother Lord Arden and the trustees of Jane ’ s dowry ) and the Perceval family ’ s long association with Ealing began.

Meanwhile, in town, Perceval had moved from Lindsey House into 10 Downing Street, when the Duke of Portland moved back to Burlington House shortly after becoming Prime Minister.

One of Perceval ’ s first tasks in Cabinet was to expand the Orders in Council that had been brought in by the previous administration and were designed to restrict the trade of neutral countries with France, in retaliation to Napoleon ’ s embargo on British trade.

As Chancellor of the Exchequer Perceval had to raise money to finance the war against Napoleon.

Perceval kissed the king ’ s hands on 4 October and set about forming his Cabinet, a task made more difficult by the fact that Castlereagh and Canning had ruled themselves out of consideration by fighting a duel ( which Perceval had tried to prevent ).

It was especially weak in the Commons, where Perceval had only one cabinet member – Home Secretary Richard Ryder – and had to rely on the support of backbenchers in debate.

The prospect of another Regency was not attractive to Perceval, as the Prince of Wales was known to favour Whigs and disliked Perceval for the part he had played in the " delicate investigation ".

Everyone had expected the Regent to change his ministers but, surprisingly, he chose to retain his old enemy Perceval.

When a surgeon arrived a few minutes later, the pulse had stopped, and Perceval was declared dead.

Perceval left a widow and twelve children aged between three and twenty, and there were soon rumours that he had not left them well provided for.

The acumen displayed in his Irish pamphlet led Spencer Perceval to recommend him in 1808 to Sir Arthur Wellesley, who had just been appointed to the command of the British forces in the Iberian Peninsula, as his deputy in the office of chief secretary for Ireland.