Sir John de Lovell, V

Primary Sources

Inquisitions Post Mortem for John Lovel, knight, Writ, 10 November, 21 Edward III [1347].
mention: Isabel his wife, who survives
He died on 3 November [1347]. John his son, aged 6 1/2 years, was his heir.

"John, Lord Lovell and Holland, also called "the Great Lord Lovell"

Monika E Simon writes:
"John Lovell VII, who is generally referred to as the fifth Lord Lovell, came of age in 1363 and on 8 June the escheators of several counties were ordered to give him seisin of his lands.

"At this point, the fortunes of his family were at a distinctly low point. His great-grandfather John Lovell III had been the first Lovell to be summoned to parliament and once had been the marshal of Edward I’s army in Scotland. It was the death of his son, John Lovell IV, at the battle of Bannockburn on 24 June 1314, only four years after his father died, that started the long time of decline. First came the long minority of his posthumous son John Lovell V. John Lovell V died at the young age of 33 on 3 November 1347. Another long period of guardianship followed as his eldest son, John Lovell VI was only six years old when his father died. Isabel, the wife of John Lovell V, died two years after her husband in 1449 only a year after the death of Joan de Ros, the grandmother of John Lovell V. This meant that all the Lovell estates were in the hands of guardians. The long periods of guardianship must have surely have a detrimental effect on the profitability of the Lovell estates. Additionally, the lands were also devastated by the Plague. In Titchmarsh, for example, only four of the eight tenants survived the Plague. John Lovell VI died a minor on 12 July 1361 and his younger brother, John Lovell VII, who was also underage, inherited his lands." [https://historytheinterestingbits.com/2021/09/10/guest-post-john-lo...]

Monika E. Simon published a book on 31 August 2021 titled From Robber Barons to Courtiers: The Changing World of the Lovells of Titchmarsh [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57165132-from-robber-barons-to-...]
Monika studied Medieval History, Ancient History, and English Linguistics and Middle English Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, from which she received an MA. She wrote her DPhil thesis about the Lovells of Titchmarsh at the University of York. She lives and works in Munich.