88 PAPEKS, ETC. 



the Earl of Bretteville, her father, Isabel de Bretteville, 

 and by her had several sons ; Robert, who succeeded his 

 father as Lord of Yvery, &c, in Normandy ; John, the 

 youngest son, Avho received the manors of Farringdon and 

 Harptree, and was ancestor of the Barons of Harptree 

 Gournay ; and William Gouel de Perceval, the second son, 

 who, by the death of his brother Eobert in 1121, obtained 

 the honours and estates of the family, both in England 

 and Normandy. And here we may remark a curious 

 instance of the capricious origin of surnames in those 

 distant times. Ascelin de Perceval having been, from 

 his fierce disposition, surnamed Lupus, the wolf, William 

 de Gouel, his son, was called Lupellus, or the young wolf. 

 Hence too his children in this kingdom, dropping the 

 name of Perceval, assumed that of Lupellus, Anglice 

 Lupell, and Lovell ; and transmitted the same as the name 

 of two great families of the ancient peerage of Great 

 Britain. 



This William Gouel de Perceval, who was the first 

 Lovell of his race, added much to the nobility of his family 

 by his marriage with Auberie de Bello Monte, daughter 

 of the Earl of Mellent ; who, by her mother's siele, was 

 great grand-daughter of Henry, King of France, and of 

 George, King of Russia, and descended directly from 

 Hugh Capet and Charlemagne. 



In the reign of King Stephen we are informed that the 

 barons of England were permitted to construet Castles, 

 and that no less than 1200 of these provincial fortresses 

 were raised about this period. Accordingly it has been 

 conjeetured that this William Gouel de Perceval, who 

 lived during the reign of Stephen, was the individual who 

 built the Castle of Cary. That he enlarged and completed 

 the fortress is very probable, and made it the head of his 



