page_title: Thomas Lovell
section_title: Under Henry VIII
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Lovell / Under Henry VIII
caption_attribution_description: English: Coat of arms of Sir Thomas Lovell, KG See Sir Thomas' stall plate, still intact, within its original stall at St. George's Chapel - arms are quarterly: 1 and 4, argent a chevron azure between three squirrel sejant erect gules, the chevron charged with a crescent of the first for difference (for Lovell); 2 and 3, sable two chevrons argent, each charged with six cinquefoils gules (?).
context_page_description: Sir Thomas Lovell, KG was an English soldier and administrator, Speaker of the House of Commons, Secretary to the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
context_section_description: Henry VIII continued to employ Lovell. He was reappointed chancellor of the exchequer, and at Michaelmas 1512 was appointed Constable of the Tower of London. From 14 June 1513 he served as Master of the Wards. He was steward and marshal of the household. On 3 September 1513 he was commissioned by Catherine of Aragon to levy men in the Midlands for service against the Scots, and on 12 May 1514 either he or his nephew Thomas, who had been  knighted at Tournai in 1513, landed at Calais with a hundred men, and was shortly afterwards joined by three hundred more.
  The rise of Thomas Wolsey's power seems to have affected his position. Ambassador Sebastiano Giustiniani wrote on 17 July 1516 that Lovell had withdrawn himself from public affairs. On Ascension day 1516 Margaret, queen-dowager of Scotland visited him at Elsyng Palace, near Enfield, in Middlesex, a house he had inherited from his brother-in-law, Edmund de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, in 1508. In 1520 he travelled to France with the other Garter Knights to take part in the meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I of France now known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
  On 14 May 1523 he was reported to be very ill, and he died at Elsing on 25 May 1524. He was buried in a chantry chapel he had built at Holywell Priory, Shoreditch, a religious house of which he was regarded as a second founder. His funeral was very magnificent. His portrait was formerly in a stained-glass window in Malvern Priory.
caption: Coat of arms of Sir Thomas Lovell.
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