Lovell our Dogge

Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell was one of the last great Yorkist magnates.  A close friend of Richard III (by whom he was knighted), he replaced Sir William Hastings as Lord Chamberlain and accrued a number of other honors.  He fought at Bosworth and was believed to have been killed, but he escaped and almost immediately began to foment armed insurrection.  After the rebellion's immediate suppression and a narrow escape, Lovell made his way to Burgundy and eventually became one of the big wheels in Lincoln's campaign.  After (probably) fleeing the field at Stoke, he seems to have made his way to Scotland and then passed from historical record, though there are some (almost certainly untrue) stories that he was hidden in a secret chamber in one of his houses by a faithful servant.

Lovell's family emblem was a "white" (argent) wolf, which appears on his Garter arms.  This probably derives from the old Latin form of the name Lupellus (little wolf), which eventually morphed into Lovell.  His personal arms were a field vairy gules and or, which figure on the bend worn by one of the archers.

Lovell's standard is conjectural.  The large wolf is taken from his Garter arms, the other wolves are just generic heraldic wolves, and the motto tempus omnia monstrat is attached to the Lovell family at a later point, though I don't know whether it was in use in 1487.

I've decided to paint the various English contingents by retinue, and Lovell's will be one of the biggest.  Next up will be a collection of the smaller gentlemen's retinues.