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.

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.

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.

It is instead his son, Galahad, who ultimately achieves the Grail to drink from ( along with Lancelot's nephew Sir Bors and Sir Perceval, the son of King Pellinore ).

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.

In the case of Perceval, one continuer says the poet's death prevented him from completing the work, in the case of Lancelot, no reason is given.

Three of Middle High German literature's finest examples, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Iwein, were based on Perceval, Erec, and Yvain ; the Three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion, Peredur, son of Efrawg, Geraint and Enid, and Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain are derived from the same trio.

Galahad for the most part travels alone, smiting his enemies, rescuing Sir Percival from twenty knights and saving maidens in distress, until he is finally reunited with Sir Bors and Sir 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 fees from his legal practice allowed Perceval to take out a lease on a country house, Belsize House in Hampstead.

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.

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.

This could be attributed in part to the 2, 923 votes received by the Referendum Party candidate Roger Percival, who claimed to be descended from Perceval.

When Castlereagh resigned from the government in October, unwilling to serve under the new Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, Robinson resigned with him.

Rose resigned these offices a few days after Pitt's death in 1806, but he served as vice-president of the committee on trade and Treasurer of the Navy under the Duke of Portland and Spencer Perceval from 1807 to 1812.

He served as Judge Advocate General under Spencer Perceval and Lord Liverpool from 1809 to 1817 and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1809.

In 1809 he proposed and carried without opposition in the House of Commons thirty-eight resolutions on financial questions, and only his loyalty to Sidmouth prevented him from joining the cabinet of Spencer Perceval as Chancellor of the Exchequer in October 1809.

Also featured are works from Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Margaret Preston and Fred Williams.

Scenes from Perceval, from a medieval illumination.

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

Spencer Perceval, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, wrote a memorandum setting out the government's case for sending forces to Copenhagen: " The intelligence from so many and such various sources " that Napoleon's intent was to force Denmark into war against Britain could not be doubted.

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 ).

* 1812 – John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.

* 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.

* May 11, 1812 – John Bellingham assassinates British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in the lobby of the British House of Commons.

* May 11 – John Bellingham assassinates British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in the lobby of the British House of Commons.

* May 18 – John Bellingham, British assassin of Spencer Perceval

The Australian collection includes works by Charles Blackman, John Brack, Arthur Boyd, Louis Buvelot, Rupert Bunny, Nicholas Chevalier, Charles Conder, David Davies, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, E. Phillips Fox, John Glover, Eugene von Guerard, Hans Heysen, George W. Lambert, Sydney Long, John Longstaff, Frederick McCubbin, Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Margaret Preston, Hugh Ramsay, Tom Roberts, John Russell, Grace Cossington Smith, Arthur Streeton, Fred Williams and others.

* John Bellingham ( c. 1769 – 1812 ), assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval

* Australia: Sidney Nolan, Charles Blackman, John Perceval, Albert Tucker and Joy Hester

* John Bellingham, the only man to assassinate a British Prime Minister ( Spencer Perceval on 11 May in 1812 ), lived in St Neots.

* John Thomas Perceval ( 1803 – 1876 ), army officer, writer and campaigner

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

Perceval is lying on the ground while his assassin, John Bellingham, is surrendering to officials ( far right )

* David C. Hanrahan, The Assassination of the Prime Minister: John Bellingham and the Murder of Spencer Perceval ( Sutton Publishing, 2008 )

* 1812, 18 May: John Bellingham was hanged for the murder of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.

It is named after the mountain which dominates its environs, which itself was named by Captain Cook after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, the First Lord of the Admiralty who promoted Cook's first voyage.

Nolan was a close friend of the arts patrons John and Sunday Reed, and is regarded as one of the leading figures of the so-called " Heide Circle " that also included Albert Tucker, Joy Hester, Arthur Boyd and John Perceval.

Captain Cook named it Mount Egmont after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, the First Lord of the Admiralty who promoted Cook's first voyage.

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

* 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 ").

These three knights then come across Sir Perceval ’ s sister who leads them to the grail ship.

Of the three knights who are untainted by sin – Sir Perceval, Sir Bors, and Sir Galahad – Galahad is the only one predestined to achieve this honor of attaining the Holy Grail.

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 ’ 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.

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 ’ s cousin, who was MP for Northampton, succeeded to the Earldom and took his place in the House of Lords.

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.

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.

In Perceval, the Story of the Grail, Sir Kay grows angry with Perceval's naïveté and slaps a maiden who says he will become a great knight ; Perceval avenges her later when he breaks Kay's shoulder.