Sir
Richard
"1st Baron Lovel"
Lovel
Born about in Castle Cary, Somerset, England
Ancestors 
Son of Hugh Lovel
and Alianore (Unknown) Lovell
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Muriel (Soulis) Lovel
— married
1305 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at about age 75
in Castle Cary, North Cadbury, Somerset, England
Profile last modified
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Biography
Sir Richard Lovel, of Castle Cary, co. Somerset [Ref: CP IX:7] Sir Richard Lovel, d. 1351, Lord Lovel of Castle Cary, co. Somerset [Ref: Weis AR7 51A:32]
"According to a number of sources Sir Richard Lovel married (bef. 1310/11) Murie,l daughter of John Soulis, of Old Rokesburgh. The error of her being a daughter of the Earl of Douglas was discussed in The Genealogist, vol. xix, 1903, p. 214. The article states the error seems to have come originally from Anderson, House of Yvery (Lond. 1742, 2 vols) but confirmed she was Muriel Soulis. We have proof of her father and her marriage to Richard Lovel from this patent rolls record: “2 Jan 1321 - Marlborough - Notification to the archbishop of Rouen that Richard Lovel had lawfully married Muriel daughter and heiress of John de Soules, and that they had a son James, the heir of the said Muriel, and that the said James is now aged 14 years, and further requesting the archbishop to grant his favour to the said Richard in the matter before the archbishop touching the inheritance of the said James within the said archbishop’s jurisdiction. By p.s.” [1]
LOVEL BARONY BY WRIT. I. 1348. 1. Richard Lovel, s. and h., was a minor at his father's death, and the wardship of his lands and person was granted to a Scottish knight, Sir John de Soules.(a-205) When the latter took part against Edward I in 1295, it was transferred to William Martin.(b-205) On 10 June 1297, the King having received his homage and given him livery of his lands the preceding day, Richard took oath at Canterbury to serve with horses and arms according to his power in the war against France.(c-205) Holding lands or rents to the value of £40 p.a. or more, he was sum. for service against the Scots in 1300 (when he offered the service of four men instead of personal attendance) and later.(d-205) He was present at the tournament at Stepney in 1309.(e-205) The manor of Old Roxburgh, part of the inheritance of Richards wife, having been taken be Edward I in connection with the defence of Roxburgh, the manor of Winfrith Eagle in Dorset and other manors in England were granted them in Jan. 1310/1 as compensation.(f-205) He was given custody of the Templars lands in Somerset and Dorset in 1311(g-205) In May 1313 he was going beyond seas in the Kings service.(h-205) He lost eleven chargers in the Scottish war,(i205) and appears to have been captured at the battle of Bannockhurn, for John de Soules in 1314 had a safe-conduct on going to Scotland to secure his release.(j205) In 1315 custody of Cranbourne Chase, &c., was granted to him during the minority of the Earl of Gloucester;(k-205) and in the same year the custody of Corfe Castle and Purbeck was given to him and Muriel his wife.(l-205) In 1317 he had licence to make a settlement on himself and his wife Muriel.(m-205) In Feb. 1319/20 he was under orders to accompany the King to France.(a-206) In Apr. 1320 he was appointed constable of Gloucester Castle, and in May 1321 constable of Bristol Castle.(b-206) He was on the Kings side in the dispute with Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and in Feb. 1321/2 was appointed joint commissioner to array the men of Somerset and Dorset against the rebels, and later to try two of the traitors at Bristol.(c-206) He was going to Scotland with the King in the following July.(d-206) In May 1324 he appears in the Sheriffs list of knights of Somerset whom he had summoned to attend the Great Council of prelates and peers at Westminster.(e-206) In 1329 and later he was appointed on commissions of the peace, array, &c., in Somerset.(f-206) On to Jan. 1341, as Richard Lovel, banneret, he was named one of the Justices to inquire into extortions in Devon and Cornwall(g-206) After Bannockburn the barony of Hawick and other Scottish possessions (including his late wifes moiety of property in Eskdale) had been lost to the Lovels,(h-206) but when, at Nevills Cross, 17 Oct. 1346, the Scots were defeated and King David captured, Richard claimed their restoration, and in 1347 a jury in Scotland found that he and his ancestors had possessed the barony of Hawick from time beyond memory.(i206) Old Roxburgh was accordingly restored to Richard and James Lovel.(j-206) Sir Richard Lovel was sum. to Parl. from 20 Nov. (1348) 22 Edw. III to 25 Nov. (1350) 24 Edw. III, by writs directed _Ricardo Lovel_, whereby he is held to have become LORD LOVEL. In Nov. 1350, as Richard Lovel, chivaler, he had licence to alienate to Stavordale Priory certain lands in Somerset.(k-206) He m., before 1307, Muriel, da. and h. of Sir John de Soules, his first guardian,(l-206) by Hawise sister of Sir James FitzAlan, Steward of Scotland.(m-206) She d. in 1318,(n-206) claiming lands in France. He d. 31 Jan. 1350/1 .(o-206)
(a-205) _Cal. Patent Rolls_, 1292-1301, p. 102; _Cal. Docs. Scot._, vol. ii, no. 564. (b-205) _Cal. Patent Rolls_, 1292-1301. pp. 150, 425. (c-205) Printed in _Fæd._, vol. i, p. 868; Exch., T.R., Scottish Docs., box 99, no. 14; circular seal of arms, Crusilly a lion rampant, with legend +, SRICARDI LOVEL. See _R. Scotiæ_, vol. i, p. 41. (d-205) Parl. Writs_; Palgrave, Docs illust. Hist. of Scot._, p. 220. In 1298, as a member of the Kings Household at the War, he was riding one of the Kings hackneys, valued at £8 (_Cal. Docs. Scot._, vol. ii, no. 1011); in 1302 he furnished two men to serve, for his lands in Scotland (_Idem._ 1321 [11]; in 1306 he was serving under Aymer de Valence on the E. Marches (_idem._ no. 1762); in 1310 he was again serving personally in Scotland (_Cal. Scutage R._, p. 393; _Parl. Writs_). (e-205) _Coll. Top. et Gen._, vol. iv, p. 65. (f-205) Cal. Docs. Scot._, vol. iii, nos. 189, 347, 352, 552, 1503. (g-205) _Cal. Fine Rolls_, vol. ii, p. 109. (h-205) _Cal. Patent Rolls,_ 1307-13, p. 583. (i-205) _Cal. Docs. Scot._, vol. iii, no. 378. He was paid £96 on account of them. (j-205) _R. Scot._, vol. i, p. 134. He had performed the service due for 2 knights fees (_Parl. Writs_). (k-205) _Cal. Fine Rolls_, vol. ii, p. 229. He was to pay 400 marks p.a., and he held it til Dec. 1316; he had also 5 manors, and the boroughs of Wareham and Weymouth. (l-205) _Idem_, p. 258. They held it till Feb. 1317/8. (m-205) _Cal. Patent. Rolls_, 1313-17, p. 651. (a-206) _Cal. Patent Rolls_, 1317-21, p. 419. (b-206) _Cal. Fine Rolls_, vol ii, pp. 20, 57. An account by him as Constable of Bristol Castle is preserved in Exch., K.R .,Accs. 4/12. (c-206) _Cal. Patent Rolls_, 1321-24, pp. 69, 148. (d-206) _Idem_, p. 184. (e-206) _Parl. Writs_. (f-206) _Cal. Patent Rolls_, 1327-30, p. 429 et seq. He was in residence at Caricastel" in 1333 (_Reg. of Bp. Ralph de Salopia_, Som. Rec. Soc., p. 148). (g-206) _Cal. Patent Rolls_, 1340-43, p. 112; _Cal. Close Rolls_, 1341-43, p. 199. (h-206) King Robert gave the land of Branxholme, lately of Sir Richard Lovel, knt., to Henri de Baliol between 1315 and 1321 (_Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot._, vol. i, no. 24). (i-206) _Cal. Docs Scot._, vol. iii, no. 1506. (j-206) _R. Scot._, vol. i, p. 697. James is here named, though no longer living. Muriel had inherited a moiety of the barony of Eskdale (or Wathstirker in Eskdal), on which no verdict seems to be recorded. (k-206) _Cal. Patent Rolls_, 1350-54. p. 8. (l-206) _Idem_, 1317-21, p. 535; _Rolls of Parl._, vol. i, p. 466. (m-206) Hawise had from her brother two-thirds of the town of Old Roxburgh in free marriage, and her right descended to the Lovels (_Cal. Inq. Misc._, vol. ii, no. 1547. (n-206) A piece of Lucca cloth was sent from the King's Wardrobe into Somerset, to be laid upon the body of the wife of Sir Richard Lovel on the day of her burial, 25 Feb. 1317/8 (_Archæologia_, vol. xxvi, p. 339). (o-206) _Cal. Inq. p. m._, vol ix, no, 665. There are inquisitions for Midx,, Dorset and Somerset. His daughter, Eleanor, was wife of Roger Rouhaut (of Aston Rowant) in 1326 (_Cal. Patent Rolls_, 1324-27, p. 264). [Ref: SP VIII:205-6]
Marriage
- Husband: Richard Lovel
- Wife: Muriel Douglas
- Child: Joan Lovel
- Child: James Lovel
- Child: Alianore Lovel
- Marriage:
- Date: ABT 1305[2]
Sources
- ↑ Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office, Edward II, Vol. III, A.S. 1317—1321, Mackie & Co. Ltd., 1903, p. 535
- ↑ Source: #S4
- Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms, Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, Burke's Peerage/Genealogical Publishing Co., 1883, Reprinted 1985. 1996, p. 332.
- The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant, G.E. C., George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Gardens, Vol. V, 1893, p. 166.
- Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset, Frederick William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo, J.C. and A.T. Sawtell, Volume V, 1897, p. 290.
- Somersetshire Archaeological & Natural History Society, Barnicott and Pearce, Anthenaeum Press, Third Series, Vol IX, 1904, p. 96.
- The Genealogist, H. W. Forsyth Harwood, Volume XIX, 1903, p. 214."2011 post at the ancestry.com medieval forum
- The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber, Rootsweb.com
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[CCR EI] 20 April 1299 Westminster. Notification that the king has granted to Richard Lovel, son and heir of Hugh Lovel, that he may pay all the debts due from him to the exchequer, as well the debts of his father as of other his ancestors, at the usual terms by as much as his father was wont to pay for the said debts, and to cause Richard to have these terms, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled. [CCW EI] 20 September 1297 Ghent. Mandate to make letters patent of protection until Easter next for Richard Lovel, staying with the king, for his lands and possessions in Scotland.
[CIM V1 1219-1307] No 1831. 25 December 1299 Rokesburgh. The church of Hawyk was never void, while the lands of Richard Lovel were in the king's hand by reason of his minority, and is not now void so that the said Richard has right of presentation, because Master Richard de Wytton, parson thereof, is alive and in full possession, having been presented by Sir Hugh Lovel, father of the said Richard Lovel.
[CPR EII] 4 January 1311 Berwick-on-Tweed. Grant to Richard Lovel, son [should read son-in-law] and heir of John de Soules, and to the heirs of his body, with remainder failing such issue to the king, of the manor of Wynefrythe Egle with its appurtenances, in exchange and part payment for the value of the manor of Old Rokesburgh, which is of the inheritance of Muriel his wife, and which he has quit-claimed to the king.
[CPR EII] 3 May 1313 Westminster. Protection until St Peter ad Vincula, for Richard de Lovel, going beyond seas on the king's service.
[CCW EII] 3 January 1314 Windsor. To the keepers of the great seal and the lieutenant of the treasurer of the Exchequer. The king's father retained in his hand the manor of Old Rokesburgh, which is of the heritage of the wife of the king's bachelor Sir Richard Lovel, for the maintenance of the castle of Rokesburgh, and the manor is still in the king's hand and the king does not wish Richard and his wife to be disinherited. Mandate to take advice and let them have other lands in recompense does not wish Richard and his wife to be disinherited. Mandate to take advice and let them have other lands in recompense.
[CPR EII] 7 February 1314 Eltham. Grant to Richard Lovel of the manor of Bradenach, county Devon, to hold so long as the king shall, he having assented thereto, retain in his hands the stocking of he castle of Rokesburgh the manor of Old Rokesburgh, which is of the inheritance of the wife of the said Ricard Lovel, to whom the grant is made in part recompense for its value.
[CPR EII] 28 July 1314 York. Grant to Richard Lovel, to whom the king is bound in the sum of approx 347 marks for the wages of his knights and squires, who were with the king in the war in Scotland, to 24 June last, and for replacing his horses lost on the king's service in that war, the manor of Eylesham, which Gilbert de Clare earl of Gloucester and Hertford, late held to him and the heirs of his body of the king's gift, and which upon the death of the earl without issue fell into the king's hands. Richard Lovel is to hold the manor for so much a year as was accustomed to be rendered for it at the Exchequer before the grant to the earl, until out of its issues thereof he shall receive the above sum.
[CCR EII] 20 December 1314 Langley. To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to pay to Richard Luvel approx 295 marrks out of the forfeited chattels of certain men of Bristol, which sum the king owes him for the wages of his knights and squires and for restitution of his horses lost in the Scotch war, the king having, on 28 July last, committed to him the manor of Eylesham to hold until he should receive that sum out of the issues of the manor, as the king afterwards granted that manor to David de Strabolgi, earl of Athole, so that Richard could not levy that sum of the issues of the same.
[CChanR] 18 June 1315 Saltwood. Richard Lovel, who had his service with the late king in the 28th and 31st years for the service of two fees, as appears by the rolls of the marshalsea, and was with the said king in his army in the 34th year for the like service, as appears by the rolls of chancery, has letters to the collectors in co. Somerset.
[CPR EII] 12 May 1317 Windsor. Licence for Richard Lovel to enfeoff Master Richard de Clare and Master Roger de Blokkesworth of his manors of Southbarwe, Northbarwe and Tyntenhull, held in chief; and for them to regrant the same to him and Muriel his wife and his heirs. By a fine of 40s.
[CPR EII] 18 February 1320 Westminster. Protection with clause volumus, until Whitsuntide, for Richard Lovel, going on the king's service beyond seas.
[CFR EII] 24 April 1320 Westminster. Commitment during pleasure to Richard Lovel of the keeping of the castle of Gloucester with the barton, tyne, weirs and all other appurtenances thereof, at the yearly rent at the Exchequer of the extent thereof.
[CPR EII] 10 January 1321 Crookham. Protection with clause volumus for Richard Lovel, going beyond seas by the king's command.
[CPR EII] 7 February 1322 Commission to John de Bello Campo of Somerset, Richard Lovel and Thomas de Marlebergh to assemble all the horse and food in the counties of Somerset and Dorset and to go with them against the insurgents, with power to arrest all who may be disobedient.
[CFR EIII] 24 September 1337 Tower of London. By Letters patent of 28 May 10EII granted to Richard Lovel and Muriel, his wife, the manors of Brehull and Silveston to hold until he should grant to them and the heirs of Muriel lands of equal value, in exchange for the manor of Old Rokesburgh of her inheritance, which with their consent he retained for the munition of the castle of Rokesburgh. And afterwards the said Richard and James Lovel, son of him and Muriel and heir of the latter, in the time of the present king entered upon the said manor of Old Rokesburgh and received the issues and profits of all three manors. Wherefore the king summoned the said Richard to speak with him of this contempt, and he, in consideration of the king's right herein, surrendered into his hands the manors of Brehull and Silveston, and afterwards for greater declaration of that right quit-claimed all right in them to John de Molyns, to whom the king had granted them by charter, making instant supplication for an indemnity herein. The king, at the instant request of the said John, has pardoned to Richard all the issues of the manors of Brehull and Silveston received by him while the manors were in his hands, has released any action he has or might have against him for waste, and has also released to him and the said Hames all his right in the manor of Old Rokesburgh. And be it remembered that the deed of surrender by Richard Lovel of these manors is enrolled in the rolls of the Chancery on the dorse of the Close Roll in the month of August 21EIII, and it was then delivered to William, bishop of Winchester, the treasurer, to be placed in the treasury for safe custody.
[CPR EIII] 29 May 1241 Westminster. Richard Lovel appointed as one of four commissioners to inquire persons who had formed a confederacy maintaining false quarrels, going armed, wounding men, extorting from some money and other things, and from preventing bailiffs and ministers from doing that which pertains to their office in the hundred of Frome, county Wiltshire.
[CPR EIII] 31 May 1341 Tower of London. Richard Lovel one of three commissioners of oyer and terminer, Somerset.
[CFR EIII] 5 February 1351 Westminster. Order to escheator in the counties of Somerset and Dorset, to take into the king's hands the lands whereof Richard Lovel, who held in chief, was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day of his death, and to make inquisition etc.
[CIPM EIII V9] 665 Richard Lovel, knight. Writ, 5 February, 25 Edward III. He died on 31 January last. Muriel, daughter of James Lovel, son and heir of the said Richard, long since married to Nicholas de Seymour, aged 19 [18] years and more, is his heir.
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My name is Colin Weeks(My surname is really Lovell-its a long story) To get to the point Richard Lovel married Muriel Douglas about 1306. Muriel's father was Sir William Le Hardi De Douglas and he was the fifth Lord Doulas.Her mother was Lady Elizabeth Stewart. She was mother to Joan Lovel. Richard then somehow wed Muriel De Soules. She lived 1280 1318 Her children were Alianore, who might also be Eleanour born 1304 and James 1306 -1342. She married Sir Roger Rahaut. Muriel came from Roxburghshire castle in Scotland.. Hope this helps with your research because one of my lines stops here with James. Regards Colin Weeks (Lovell)