While there is much speculation about the Lowell surname, the earliest Lowells probably came to England from Normandy in France at the time of William the Conqueror in 1066. The probable meaning of the name Lowell implies that one of the earliest Lowell ancestors was a master of the wolfhounds for one of the early Norman kings. The Lowell/Lowle family lived in Somerset County for over four centuries.
The first Lowell in America was Percival Lowell/Lowle. Percival was his mother’s maiden name. Centuries earlier, one of his ancestors was Richard de Percival, a Crusader under King Richard I. The Crusades were an unsuccessful attempt by European Christians to rid the land of Israel from the Muslims between 1095 and 1291. In a battle with the Saracens (Arab Muslims) in the Holy Lands, he lost a leg and died of his wounds. He is buried at the church of Saints Peter and Paul in Weston-in-Gordano, a tiny village in Somerset County in western England, a mile inland from the Bristol Channel
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