Image: Coat of Arms of Sir Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, KG

Description: Stained glass at Carlton Towers, Yorkshire, a possession of the Stapleton family, showing arms of Stapleton, Lovell, Grey of Rotherfield, Deincourt, Holand? and Beaumont. Joan Lovell, a sister and co-heiress of Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, married Brian Stapleton of Carlton

Sir Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, KG Lovell's stall plate is still intact within the eighteenth stall on the Prince's side of St. George's chapel. It is an irregular shaped copper plate bearing, within the Garter of the Order, a shield quarterly: 1, barry nebuly or and gules (for Lovell) ; 2, azure billety and a fess dancety or (for Deincourt); 3, azure fleury and a lion rampant regaurdant argent (for Holand) ; 4, Barry of six argent and azure a bend gules (for Grey of Rotherfield); with an escutcheon of pretence argent a lion rampant sable crowned or (for Burnell). Note that Lovell's stall plate was one of the first to include the Garter of the Order. This is a tradition that would gain prevalence in the time of Henry VIII.
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