Post by hi224 on Jun 8, 2019 0:53:37 GMT
Lord Lovell, a rebel Yorkist knight, was last seen alive fleeing from the Battle of Stoke Field after defeat by the Lancastrians. In 1488 he was granted safe conduct in Scotland by King James IV but there is no evidence he was ever in the country. (A skeleton found at one of his mansions at Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, in 1708 was believed without evidence to be his.)
n June 1485, Lovell was appointed to guard the south coast to prevent the landing of Henry Tudor.[13] However, Henry Tudor landed in Wales near Milford Haven avoiding the stronger defences of the English south coast. While no chronicle account of the battle mentions Lovell, it seems certain that he fought for Richard at the Battle of Bosworth Field (22 August 1485). Two reports written in the immediate aftermath of the battle list him as among the fallen.[14] In fact, he escaped. After the battle, Lovell fled to sanctuary at Colchester and from there escaped the following year to organise a revolt in Yorkshire that attempted to seize Henry VII. After the failure of this plot, Lovell tried seizing Henry VII in York by himself,[15] and is believed to have been behind an attempted assassination of Henry in York. After the failure of both these attempts, then he first joined fellow rebels at Furness Falls and later fled to Margaret of York in Flanders.[16]
As a chief leader of the Yorkist party, Lovell took a prominent part in Lambert Simnel's enterprise. With John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, he accompanied the pretender to Ireland and fought for him at the Battle of Stoke Field on 16 June 1487. He was seen escaping from the battle and may have eventually fled to Scotland, where on 19 June 1488 James IV issued a safe conduct to him.[13] There is, however, no indication he ever arrived or lived in Scotland, and no further information about Lovell's fate.[17]
Francis Lovell's wife, Anne Fitzhugh, was granted an annuity of £20 in 1489.[18] She was still alive in 1495; the date of her death is not known.[19]
n June 1485, Lovell was appointed to guard the south coast to prevent the landing of Henry Tudor.[13] However, Henry Tudor landed in Wales near Milford Haven avoiding the stronger defences of the English south coast. While no chronicle account of the battle mentions Lovell, it seems certain that he fought for Richard at the Battle of Bosworth Field (22 August 1485). Two reports written in the immediate aftermath of the battle list him as among the fallen.[14] In fact, he escaped. After the battle, Lovell fled to sanctuary at Colchester and from there escaped the following year to organise a revolt in Yorkshire that attempted to seize Henry VII. After the failure of this plot, Lovell tried seizing Henry VII in York by himself,[15] and is believed to have been behind an attempted assassination of Henry in York. After the failure of both these attempts, then he first joined fellow rebels at Furness Falls and later fled to Margaret of York in Flanders.[16]
As a chief leader of the Yorkist party, Lovell took a prominent part in Lambert Simnel's enterprise. With John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, he accompanied the pretender to Ireland and fought for him at the Battle of Stoke Field on 16 June 1487. He was seen escaping from the battle and may have eventually fled to Scotland, where on 19 June 1488 James IV issued a safe conduct to him.[13] There is, however, no indication he ever arrived or lived in Scotland, and no further information about Lovell's fate.[17]
Francis Lovell's wife, Anne Fitzhugh, was granted an annuity of £20 in 1489.[18] She was still alive in 1495; the date of her death is not known.[19]