Arms of Francis Viscount Lovell (Wikimedia Commons) I have pleasure in posting part two of Ted White’s ‘Francis Lovell and His Disappearance…’ Thank you Ted! Francis Lovell last appears in the historical record on June 16th 1487, when two eye-witnesses reported that he had left the battlefield at East Stoke. Several explanations of whatContinue reading “FRANCIS LOVELL AND HIS DISAPPEARANCE PART TWO – LOVELL’S LAST RESTING PLACE? WHAT HAPPENED TO FRANCIS, VISCOUNT LOVELL AFTER THE BATTLE OF EAST STOKE?”
Monthly Archives: October 2026
THE PASTON FAMILY DURING THE WARS OF THE ROSES, THEIR UPS, THEIR DOWNS AND THEIR LETTERS.
‘There was never a Paston poor, a Heydon a coward or a Cornwallis a fool’. An old Norfolk saying. The Pastons cannily made a series of advantageous and strategic marriages enabling them to swiftly ascend the social ladder. Frieze of a Medieval Wedding – Artist Thomas Stottard. Yale Center for British Art. The Pastons, aContinue reading “THE PASTON FAMILY DURING THE WARS OF THE ROSES, THEIR UPS, THEIR DOWNS AND THEIR LETTERS.”