Viscount Lovell is in Viscountcies of England Alphabetically.
On 4th January 1483 Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell [aged 27] was created 1st Viscount Lovell. Anne Fitzhugh Viscountess Lovell by marriage Viscountess Lovell.
The Ricardian Volume 8 1988-1990 Pages 382-402. He [Francis Lovell [aged 27]] was, however, strikingly singled out with his promotion on 4th January 1483 to the rank of Viscount, an honour accorded by Edward IV to only one other nobleman, William [aged 57], Lord Berkeley (1481). The ceremony began with his entering the King’s great chamber, dressed in his parliament robes, led between his cousin, Lord Morley1, and his brother-in-law, Richard [aged 26]2, Lord Fitzhugh. His patent was read aloud by the King’s secretary, and he proceeded to his chamber accompanied by the sound of trumpets. There he distributed fees to the 'officers of arms' and his titles were recited in the hall — 'puissant et noble visconte Lovell, sieur dew Holland, de Burnell, Deygnecort et de Grey de Rotherfilde'.48 There can be little doubt that this elevation was due primarily to the influence of the Duke of Gloucester, and the sudden turn of events in the summer of 1483, and Gloucester’s assumption of the throne, meant a rapid escalation in grants and appointments to his friend and associate, Lovell.
Note 1. First cousin Henry Lovell 9th Baron Marshal 8th Baron Morley, son of his father's brother William Lovell Baron Marshal, Baron Morley. He inherited his mother's titles Baron Marshall and Morley in 1476.
Note 2. Brother of Francis Lovell's wife Anne Fitzhugh Viscountess Lovell.
Note 48. BL. Additional MS. 6113, f.126d. Curiously, the writer of the account places this creation in the reign of Richard III, but this is almost certainly wrong. He also says that Thomas Thwaites was knighted on the same day, and according to W. A. Shaw, The Knights of England, vol. 2, London 1906, p.21, this took place on 3 January 1483. For Edward IV's creations, see T. B. Pugh, The Magnates, Knights and Gentry, in Fifteenih Century England, ed. S. B. Chrimes, C. D. Ross and R. A. Griffiths, Manchester 1972, pp.116-7.
On 16th June 1487 a Lancastrian army defeated a Yorkist army at the Battle of Stoke Field; considered by many to be the last battle of the Wars of the Roses.
The Lancastrian army of Henry Tudor comprised:
John de Vere 13th Earl of Oxford [aged 44].
Jasper Tudor 1st Duke Bedford [aged 55].
George Talbot 4th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 19].
Henry Willoughby [aged 36].
John Cheney 1st Baron Cheyne [aged 45].
John Mordaunt [aged 31].
Richard Neville 2nd Baron Latimer of Snape [aged 19].
William Norreys [aged 46].
Edward Norreys [aged 23] wounded.
John Paston [aged 43].
George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster [aged 27].
Edward Woodville Lord Scales [aged 31].
Thomas Lovell, knighted.
Henry Marney 1st Baron Marney [aged 40].
Edward Belknapp of Blackfriars in London
William Lyttelton [aged 37] who was knighted after the battle.
The Yorksists:
John de la Pole Earl Lincoln 1st [aged 25] was killed. Earl Lincoln extinct.
Thomas Fitzgerald [aged 29] and Martin Schwartz were killed.
Lambert Simnel [aged 10] fought and was captured. He was pardoned by King Henry VII and put to work in the in the royal kitchen as a spit-turner. When he grew older, he became a falconer. Almost no information about his later life is known.
Francis Lovell 1st Viscount Lovell [aged 31] fought and escaped. He was attainted. Viscount Lovell, Baron Deincourt, Baron Grey of Rotherfield, Baron Lovel of Titchmarsh, Baron Holand forfeit.
Edmund Peckham was granted the manors of Alford, Eccles, Alderley, Chester, and Flint.