Lovell, Francis Lovell, Viscount

Lovell, Francis Lovell, Viscount

▪ English politician
also called  (from 1465) 9th Lord Lovell Of Tichmarsh, Lovell  also spelled  Lovel 
born 1454
died 1487?

      English politician, supporter of King Richard III in the dynastic struggles of the 1480s; he led the first rebellion against Richard's enemy and successor Henry VII and took part in the later rising of the impostor Lambert Simnel (Simnel, Lambert) (q.v.).

      A son of John, 8th Baron Lovell of Tichmarsh (d. 1465), Francis Lovell was knighted by Richard, duke of Gloucester (later Richard III), during an expedition to Scotland in 1480 and was created viscount in January 1483. Throughout the reign of Richard III (June 1483–August 1485), Lovell was the King's chamberlain.

      He fought for the King against the Earl of Richmond (afterward Henry VII) at Bosworth Field (Aug. 22, 1485) and, after the defeat and death of Richard, fled to sanctuary in Colchester. The following year he escaped to lead a potentially dangerous but ill-organized revolt in Yorkshire against Henry VII. When the rebellion was put down, he went to the Netherlands and, in May 1487, to Ireland with John de la Pole, earl of Lincoln, and a force of German mercenaries in support of Lambert Simnel, the impostor “King Edward VI.” They crossed to England but were defeated by Henry VII's army at East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, in June 1487.

      Lovell was seen fleeing after this battle but was never heard of again. In 1708 there was found in a secret vault in Lovell's house at Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, the skeleton of a man seated at a table, on which were writing materials and a book. It is thought that Lovell died there in hiding.

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