In the time of Richard I, Girard de Furnival came into England from Normandy and, accompanying the king to the Holy Land, assisted at the celebrated siege of Acon. To this gallant soldier succeeded his son, another Girard de Furnival. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 225, Furnival, Barons Furnival]