page_title: Richard Percivale
section_title: Marriages and children
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Percivale / Marriages and children
caption_attribution_description: English: Alice, daughter of John Sherman (of Somerset "Com(itas) Som(erset)", a member of the Sherman family of Yaxley, Suffolk, of Ottery, St. Mary, Devon, etc.), showing the arms of Perceval quartering Lovel, impaling Sherman: Or, a lion rampant sable between three holly leaves vert (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 &amp; 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.680, pedigree of Sherman) Pair with File:Richard Perceval (1556-1621), of Twickenham, Somerset, manner of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.jpg Sotheby's catalogue entry: "PORTRAIT OF RICHARD PERCEVAL (1556-1621), OF TWICKENHAM, SOMERSET, SECRETARY OF THE COURT OF WARDS IN IRELAND; AND PORTRAIT OF HIS WIFE, ALICE, DAUGHTER OF JOHN SHERMAN OF OTTERY ST. MARY, DEVON". Sold at Sotheby's, London, Sale Number: L14030, Lot 710, Old Master &amp; British Paintings, 30 April 2014 oil on panel 57.5 x 45 cm 1599
context_page_description: Sir Richard Percivale of Sydenham, near Bridgwater, Somerset, was an English administrator and politician, also known as a Hispanist and lexicographer. He wrote a Spanish grammar for English readers, A Spanish Grammar, and a dictionary, both included in his Bibliotheca Hispanica; this work was later enlarged by John Minsheu in A dictionarie in Spanish and English.
context_section_description: He married twice:
  Firstly to a lady of unrecorded name, by whom he had three sons and two daughters;
  Secondly to Alice Sherman, a daughter of John Sherman of Somerset, by whom he had two sons and two daughters including:
  Sir Philip Perceval, younger son and heir, ancestor of the Earls of Egmont. The History of the House of Yvery (1742) by James Anderson and another, commissioned by John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont, contains unreliable detail.
caption: Alice Sherman, portrait in manner of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1599)
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