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Francis, Viscount Lovell …

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…, who became Lord Chamberlain today in 1483 and carried the third sword of state at Richard’s coronation three weeks later has been featured in his own blogCoat_of_Arms_of_Sir_Francis_Lovell,_1st_Viscount_Lovell,_KG since February 2017, thanks to Michelle (and apologies for the missing accent). She also makes a great effort to determine his fate.

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  1. Re-enactment of, and history trail about, the Battle of Stoke Field…. | murreyandblue

    […] of the leading rebels, men like Lord Lovell, the Earl of Lincoln and German mercenary chief Schwarz, fell that day. But Lambert Simnel was […]

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  2. Down with Reggie Bray: hooray for Francis Lovell….! | murreyandblue

    […] there is also news about a much more agreeable gentleman from the past, Francis Lovell, whose family name attaches to an Oxfordshire village, Minster Lovell. Unlike Bray, he was true to […]

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  3. Doggeing “Tudor” footsteps? | murreyandblue

    […] Schindler’s seminal biography of Francis Viscount Lovell, one of the trio named in Colyngbourne‘s doggerel, is published today. Hopefully, it will go […]

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  4. Another piece … | murreyandblue

    […] the same reign, there was also the Stafford-Lovell rebellion starting at Colchester, the Brecon rebellion and the Cornish rebellion that ended at Deptford […]

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  5. Lovell’s Hospital in Brackley | murreyandblue

    […] (no idea if he was a relative of THOSE Stanleys) who was incumbent from 1471 onward. In 1484, Francis Lovell granted the advowson of the hospital to the Bishop of Winchester, William Waynflete, for the sum of […]

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  6. Some ghosts of Oxfordshire, but try Gloucestershire for size too…. | murreyandblue

    […] if you’d like to encounter Francis Lovell, the grounds of his old home are where’ll you’ll find him. There are a multitude of […]

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  7. Mysterious Minster Lovell in the mist…. – murreyandblue

    […] Windrush, surely one of the loveliest little rivers in England, whispered past the old ruins of Sir Francis Lovell‘s ancient seat. On such a quiet morning, with the mist barely moving, it was only too […]

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  8. Richard III’s many daughters…. – murreyandblue

    […] has been a suggestion recently that he had a daughter, Anne Norris, in early 1485 by Francis Lovell’s sister, Frideswide. This is based largely on his giving her a huge annual pension when the baby […]

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  9. Another interesting article from Academia – murreyandblue

    […] decining to serve in the latter’s first Parliament. He may have been involved with Lovell and the Stafford brothers of Grantham in their first rebellion and definitely was with Lincoln and […]

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  10. Sir William Stanley – Turncoat or Loyalist.. – murreyandblue

    […] John, Viscount Beaumont, and widow of John,  Lord Lovell which made him of course step-father to Francis Lovell,  at that time a ‘very valuable 12 year old heir’.   Francis was  said to have been Richard […]

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