Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell

[8] When Edward IV had re-established his rule in 1471, he granted the wardship of Francis Lovell, who was still underage, to his sister Elizabeth and her husband John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk.

The arms of these families all appear on his Garter stall plate in St George's Chapel, and in stained glass windows at Carlton Towers.

He had been created a viscount on 4 January 1483, and while still Lord Protector Richard made him Chief Butler and constable of Wallingford Castle.

[13] Lovell was promoted to the office of Lord Chamberlain, replacing the late William Hastings,[14] and was made a Knight of the Garter in 1483.

In July 1484, William Collingbourne, a Tudor agent, tacked up a lampooning poem at St Paul's Cathedral, which mentions Lovell, whose family's heraldic symbol was a silver wolf,[16][17] among the three aides to King Richard, whose emblem was a white boar: The Catte, the Ratte and Lovell our doggeRulyth all Englande under a hogge.The poem was interpolated into Laurence Olivier's film Richard III, a screen adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

[18] However, Henry Tudor landed in Wales near Milford Haven avoiding the stronger defences of the English south coast.

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.

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.

The late Mr. Lawson Lowe, of Chepstow, said in December, 1882, that when he visited the church in 1865, the date could be made out, and he thought the effigy might be that of a knight who fought at the battle of Stoke, near Newark, in 1487.

It is feasible that Francis attempted to escape across the river at the Fiskerton shallows but was either killed or died later of his wounds, his body being buried under the flagstones in the Gedling Church in order to prevent the certain fate of then being 'hung, drawn and quartered'.