The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. II.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Pershale : This name is interpolated, for it was taken from the manor of Pershall, in the parish of Eccleshall, Staffordshire. The family has been generally derived from Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeuil, who held Pershall from Robert de Stafford by the service of a knight's fee; but another account (which I have copied from Erdeswick's county history) is entirely different. "Sir John Swinnerton gave the manor of Pershall to Sir Richard his son (a younger son no doubt) who thence took the name of Pershall about 55 Henry III. The Pershalls bore the Argent a cross forme fleury Sable of the Swinnertons, adding a canton Gules charged with the wolf's head of Hugh Lupus."