John Lovel, 8th Baron Lovel
John Lovel, 8th Baron Lovel, 5th Baron Holand (* 1433 ; † 1463 or 1464) was an English nobleman .
Life
He was from Titchmarsh in East Northamptonshire and was the son of William Lovel, 7th Baron Lovel , 4th Baron Holand and Alice Deincourt. When his father died in 1455, he inherited his nobility titles Baron Lovel and Baron Holand . As such, he participated in several sessions of the English Parliament between October 9, 1459 and February 28, 1463 as a member of the House of Lords .
He was a devoted supporter of the House of Lancaster at the time of the Wars of the Roses . For his faithful service he was in the beginning of 1460 by King Heinrich VI. appointed Chief forester of the forest Whichwoode, Northampton . In early July 1460 he tried together with Lord Hungerford and Lord Scales to defend London against the advancing Yorkists under Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick . But they were pushed back and had to seek protection in the tower and barricade themselves there. Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham and Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury then besieged the Tower and the besieged had to give up on July 18, 1460.
Little is known about the time from this siege to the death of John Lovel, except that many of his possessions, e. B. his Manors of Minster and Deincourts Manor were confiscated.
Marriage and offspring
John Lovel was married to Joan Beaumont († 1466), the daughter of John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont . He had three children with her:
- Francis Lovel, 9th Baron Lovel , raised to Viscount Lovel in 1483 , sided with the Yorkists and fought against Henry VII in 1487 together with John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Lambert Simnel near Stoke .
- Joane Lovel
- Fridiswide Lovel ⚭ Sir Edward Norris
His widow married Sir William Stanley for the second time in 1465 .
literature
- C. Oman: The History of England. Longmans, Green, and Co., London 1906.
- Allison Weir: The wars of the Roses. Random House Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 978-0-345-40433-6 .
- Bernard Burke: A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison, London 1866.
- Sir TC Banks: Baronia Anglica Concentrata. William Harrison, Ripon 1844.
- Sidney Lee: Dictionary of National Biography . Smith Elder & Co, London 1893.
- Nicholas Harris: A Synopsis of the Peerage of England. J. Nichols & Son, London 1825.
- George Fischer: A Companion and Key to the History of England. Simpkin and Marshall, London 1832.
Web links
- luminarium.org/Lord Lovel
- Lords of the Manor Kings Sutton
- luminarium.org/Lord Scales
- luminarium.org/Lord Hungerford
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| William Lovel |
Baron Lovel Baron Holand 1455-1465 |
Francis Lovel |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lovel, John, 8th Baron Lovel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lovel, John, 8th Baron Lovel, 5th Baron Holand; John Lovel of Titchmarsh |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1433 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1463 or 1464 |