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VISCOUNT FRANCIS LOVELL LOVELL (1454-...

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 71 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VISCOUNT See also:FRANCIS See also:LOVELL LOVELL (1454-1487)  , sup- See also:porter of See also:Richard III., was son of See also:John, 8th See also:Baron See also:Lovell . As a See also:young See also:man he served under Richard of See also:Gloucester in the expedition to See also:Scotland in 1480 . After the See also:death of See also:Edward IV. he became one of his See also:patron's strongest supporters . He had been created a See also:viscount on the 4th of See also:January 1483, and whilst still See also:Protector Richard made him See also:Chief See also:Butler . As soon as Richard became See also:king, Lovell was promoted to be See also:Lord See also:Chamberlain . Lovell helped in the suppression of See also:Buckingham's See also:rebellion, and as one of Richard's most trusted ministers was gibbeted in Collingbourne's See also:couplet with See also:Catesby and Ratcliffe:— " The catte, the ratte and Lovell our dogge Rulyth all See also:England under a hogge." He had command of the See also:fleet which was to have stopped See also:Henry Tudor's landing in 1485, but fought for Richard at See also:Bosworth and after the See also:battle fled to See also:sanctuary at See also:Colchester . Thence he escaped next See also:year to organize a dangerous revolt in See also:York-See also:shire . When that failed he fled to See also:Margaret of See also:Burgundy in See also:Flanders . As a chief See also:leader of the Yorkist party he had a foremost See also:part in See also:Lambert See also:Simnel's enterprise . With John de la See also:Pole, See also:earl of See also:Lincoln, he accompanied the pretender to See also:Ireland and fought for him at Stoke on the 16th of See also:June 1487 . He was seen escaping from the battle, but was never afterwards heard of; See also:Bacon relates that according to one See also:report he lived See also:long after in a See also:cave or vault (Henry VII., p . 37, ed .

Lumby) . More than 200 years later, in 1708, the See also:

skeleton of a man was found in a See also:secret chamber in the See also:family See also:mansion at See also:Minster Lovell in See also:Oxfordshire . It is supposed that See also:Francis Lovell had hidden himself there and died of See also:starvation . Collingbourne's couplet is preserved by See also:Fabyan, See also:Chronicle, p . 672 . For the See also:discovery at Minster Lovell see Notes and Queries, and See also:ser. i. and 5th ser. x . (C . L .

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