Person:Unknown Van Parcival (1)

Ridder van de Graal (volgens de legende) Wolfram von Eschenbach, in M. Baigent, R. Leigh & H. Lincoln, The holy blood and the holy Grail, London, 1996 (1982): 277f.; . Perceval was of the lineage of Joseph of Arimathea and this Joseph was his [Perceval's] mother's uncle, that had been a soldier of Pilate seven years, see Perlesvaus, in M. Baigent, R. Leigh & H. Lincoln, The holy blood and the holy Grail, London, 1996 (1982): 303. Parzival's uncle was Anfortas, the maimed Fisher King and lord of the Grail, who was wounded in his genitals and unable to procreate or to die, see Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, in M. Baigent, R. Leigh & H. Lincoln, The holy blood and the holy Grail, London, 1996 (1982): 312f.. Parcival's step-brother Feirefiz married the princess of the Grail castle, who gave birth to the Christian African emperor Prester John, see Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, in A. Sinclair, The secret scroll, Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 2001: 83f.. Alternatively, we learn that the family of Joseph of Arimathea became the keepers of the Grail after the crucifixion; Galahad was Joseph of Arimathea's son and Brons was Joseph of Arimathea's brother-in-law, to whom the Grail passed; and Perceval was the grandson of the Fisher King and the 'Son of the Widow Lady', all in Robert de Boron, in M. Baigent, R. Leigh & H. Lincoln, The holy blood and the holy Grail, London, 1996 (1982): 301f., 323.