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Lovel, Viscount (E, 1483 - forfeited 1485)

Creation: let.pat. 4 Jan 1482/3

Forfeited: 7 Nov 1485

Family name: Lovel

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Arms:

See Baron Lovel

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Francis [Lovel], 9th Baron Lovel and 6th Baron Holand later also 7th Baron Deincourt and 7th Baron Grey of Rotherfield later 1st Viscount Lovel, KG

only son and heir of John [Lovel], 8th Baron Lovel and 5th Baron Holand, by his wife Joan Beaumont, only dau. of John [Beaumont], 1st Viscount Beaumont, by his first wife Elizabeth Phelip, dau. and sole hrss. of Sir William Phelip KG, of Dennington, co. Suffolk, and Erpingham, co. Norfolk, by his wife Joan Bardolf, 2nd dau. and sole hrss. in her issue of Thomas [Bardolf], 5th Baron Bardolf and 4th Baron Damory

born

c. 1456

mar.

bef. 14 Feb 1465/6 Anne FitzHugh (dsp. after 15 Dec 1489), 2nd dau. of Henry [FitzHugh], 5th Baron FitzHugh, by his wife Lady Alice Nevill, 3rd dau. of Sir Richard Nevill, jure uxoris 5th Earl of Salisbury, by his wife Lady Alice Montacute, suo jure Countess of Salisbury, only child and sole hrss. by his first wife of Thomas [Montacute], 4th Earl of Salisbury

died

s.p. killed probably at the Battle of Stoke 14 Oct 1495

created

4 Jan 1482/3 Viscount Lovel

note

a general pardon was granted to him following an uprising in Yorkshire led by his father-in-law, Lord FitzHugh, 1470;  he and his wife joined the Corpus Christi Guild at York 1473;  following the death of his grandmother in 1474 he inherited the Baronies of Deincourt and Grey of Rotherfield;  a Commissioner of Array in North Yorkshire 1480;  knighted 1480 by Richard, Duke of York, while on his expedition into Scotland;  a trier of petitions in Parliament 1482;  appointed Chief Butler of England 1483;  Knight of the Garter 1483;  bore the Third Sword at the Coronation of King Richard III 1483, when he was made Chamberlain of the Household, Chief Butler of England, Constable of Wallingford Castle and Privy Councillor;  founded a Fraternity of the Holy Cross in St Helen's Church, Abingdon, 1484;  he fought with King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth 1485;  after the battle he fled to Colchester, and from there to Yorkshire, where his forces nearly captured King Henry VII at York;  he was defeated, fled to Sir Thomas Broughton's house in Lancashire, and from there to Flanders ,where he was welcomed by Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, sister of Kings Edward IV and Richard III;  she sent him to Ireland in 1487 with a body of soldiers to help Lambert Simnel, who claimed to be Edward, Earl of Warwick;  coming to England he fought at the Battle of Stoke 1495, where he was probably slain;  he was attainted 7 Nov 1485 after the Battle of Bosworth and again 14 Oct 1495 after the Battle of Stoke, whereby all his honours were forfeited;  an annuity of £20 was granted to his widow in 1489

 First written 13 Oct 2012

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