Francis Lovell was born in 1454 in a country that was riven by civil war; a conflict that was known as the War of the Roses. He was the son of Joan Beaumont and John, the 8th Baron Lovell of Titchmarsh, who had sided with the Lancastrians and King Henry VI.
In 1465 Lord Lovell died leaving Francis as his heir. He became a ward of the Yorkist King Edward IV who put him in the guardianship of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, who was known as the ‘Kingmaker'. The Earl of Warwick had massive holdings in the north of England and Francis was sent to his household at Middleham Castle in Wensleydale.
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