Isabel Lovell

• Name	Isabel Lovell  [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I37023	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	16 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	John Lovell
  Mother	(Unknown) Strange
  Family ID	F21766	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William de Calthorpe,   b. of Calthorpe, Norfolk, England d. Abt 1360
  Children	+ 1. Ela de Calthorpe
  Family ID	F11705	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Dec 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Blomefield (citation details below), writing in or before 1807, calls her "daughter of John Lord Lovell of Tichmarsh." The only Lovel of Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire she could plausibly be a daughter of is < href="http://nielsenhayden.com/genealogy-tng/getperson.php?personID=I27979&tree=nh1">the one born around 1288 and killed 24 Jun 1314 at the battle of Bannockburn. This John Lovel is known to have married Maud Burnell, daughter of Philip Burnell, but their only recorded children are a posthumous son, John, and a daughter, Joan. Notably, the Norfolk visitation pedigrees of Calthorpe (spelled "Calthrop") call William Calthorpe's wife Isabel "da. of John Lovell by the da. of the Lord Strange of Blackmere", but unlike Blomefield, they do not specify that this John Lovell is of Titchmarsh. The Wikitree pages for the wife of William Calthorpe and for John Lovell of Titchmarsh speculate that perhaps the Titchmarsh man fathered Isabel Lovell on the unidentified Strange daughter before his marriage to Maud Burnell, and that Isabel's resulting illegitimacy "might explain why her sister Joan was an heir to their father, but Isabel was apparently not." But it's difficult to imagine why the heir to the upwardly-mobile Calthorpe family would marry a woman with no property to bring to the match. Failing other information, we're inclined to think that Blomfield may have been in error and that the John Lovel/Lovell who was this Isabel's father was another individual altogether.

  
  

• Sources

  [S66] An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield. William Miller, 1805. [S2168] The Visitation of Norfolk Made and Taken by William Hervey, Clarenceux King of Arms, Anno 1563, Enlarged with Another Visitation Made by Clarenceux Cooke, with Many Other Descents, and Also the Visitation Made by John Raven, Richmond, Anno 1613 ed. Walter Rye. London: The Harleian Society, 1891.