Percival
[ˈpɜr.sɪ.vəl]Meaning
from Old French Perceval, a knight's name in a 12th-century romance
Background Story
Percival comes from Old French Perceval, the name of a knight in a twelfth-century Arthurian romance by the French poet Chrétien de Troyes. The name is shaped like Old French percier ("pierce") and val ("valley"), but probably represents a Gaulish or Old Welsh name, possibly related to Welsh Peredur, from ber ("spear, lance") and dur ("hard metal, steel"). It is cognate with the German Parzival and Parsifal, and is also written Parzival, Parsifal and Peredur.
Temperament
Variations
Perceval, Parsifal
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