Family and Education
b. by 1450, 5th s. of Sir Ralph Lovell of Barton Bendish, Norf. by Joan. educ. L. Inn, adm. 1464. m. (1) Eleanor, da. of Geoffrey Ratcliff; (2) Isabel, da. and coh. of Thomas, 9th Lord Ros, wid. Kntd. 16 June 1487, banneret 17 June 1497, KG nom. bef. May 1503.Date of birth estimated from education. Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 190-1; Blomefield, Norf. i. 272; CP, ii. 546.
Offices Held

Treasurer, L. Inn 1472 – 75, autumn reader 1475, gov. 1475 – 76, 1479 – 80, 1481–2.

J.p. Norf. 1478 – 81, 1485 – d., Mdx. 1491 – d., Oxon. 1493 – 1515, Notts. 1493 – 1514, midland counties 1493, Staffs. 1493, 1508 – d., Berks. 1495 – d., Surr. 1505 – d., esquire of the body 1485, knight 1487; Councillor 1485; treasurer of the chamber 1485 – Aug. 1492, of the Household Aug. 1492 – 24 Apr. 1522; chancellor of the Exchequer 12 Oct. 1485 – 28 May 1516; constable, Wallingford castle (with Sir William Stonor) Nottingham castle 1489, the Tower 1513; warden and c.j. in eyre, Sherwood forest 1489, this side of the Trent, 1510; jt. (with James Hobart) steward, duchy of Lancaster, Cambs., Norf., and Suff., 1489 – 1518; commr. array Norf. 1490, Notts. 1511, midland counties 1513, subsidy Bucks. 1512, Mdx. 1512, 1514, 1515, 1523, Norf. 1515, 1523, Household 1514, 1515, enclosures Mdx. 1517; apprentice-at-law retained by duchy of Lancaster by 1498; high steward, universities of Oxford and Cambridge 1509; marshal of the Household 1512 – 13; master of wards 14 June 1513–18, jt. (with Richard Weston) Jan. 1518 – Dec. 1520; lt. of Calais temp. Hen. VIII. CPR, 1476–85, p. 566; 1485–94, pp. 18, 23, 205, 265–7; 1494–1509, pp. 482–508, 630–61; W. C. Richardson, Tudor Chamber Admin. 484–7; Statutes, iii. 82, 86, 116–17, 170–3; Somerville, Duchy, i. 453, 595; Al. Cant. ii. 108; Al. Ox. 941; LP Hen. VIII, i-iii.

Speaker of House of Commons 1485.

Main residences: East Harling, Norf.; Elsing by Enfield, Mdx.
Author
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title

LOVELL, Sir Thomas I (by 1450-1524)

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Oxford 1644
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Religion
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