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'''Richard Lovett''' (Richard de Louvet) was a [[Lord|Seigneur]] of [[Upper Normandy]] who accompanied [[William the Conqueror]] into England in 1066 [[AD]]. The surname derived from the [[Anglo-Norman]] [[French language|French]] ''Lo(u)vet'', a nickname which meant 'wolf cub.'<ref>[http://www.ancestry.com/facts/lovett-name-meaning.ashx Lovett name meaning and history, Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4, ancestry.com]</ref> Richard Lovett's sons, William and Robert Lovett were rewarded with land grants in England that were listed in the [[Domesday Book]] and stayed with the family into the twentieth-century. |
'''Richard Lovett''' (Richard de Louvet{{dubious|date=May 2014}}) was a [[Lord|Seigneur]]{{dubious|date=May 2014}} of [[Upper Normandy]] who accompanied [[William the Conqueror]]}} into England in 1066 [[AD]]. The surname derived from the [[Anglo-Norman]] [[French language|French]] ''Lo(u)vet'', a nickname which meant 'wolf cub.'<ref>[http://www.ancestry.com/facts/lovett-name-meaning.ashx Lovett name meaning and history, Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4, ancestry.com]</ref> Richard Lovett's sons, William and Robert Lovett were rewarded with land grants in England that were listed in the [[Domesday Book]] and stayed with the family into the twentieth-century. |
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Richard de Louvet's tomb is at the cathedral in [[Rouen]]{{dubious|date=May 2014}}, [[France]]. His name{{dubious|date=May 2014}}, and that of his sons' (as ''Guilliame Louvet'') are engraved on the wall of the Notre-Dame Church at [[Dives-sur-Mer]] together with other [[companions of William the Conqueror]], Normandy. |
Richard de Louvet's tomb is at the cathedral in [[Rouen]]{{dubious|date=May 2014}}, [[France]]. His name{{dubious|date=May 2014}}, and that of his sons' (as ''Guilliame Louvet'') are engraved on the wall of the Notre-Dame Church at [[Dives-sur-Mer]] together with other [[companions of William the Conqueror]], Normandy. |
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Richard Lovett (Richard de Louvet[dubious ]) was a Seigneur[dubious ] of Upper Normandy who accompanied William the Conqueror}} into England in 1066 AD. The surname derived from the Anglo-Norman French Lo(u)vet, a nickname which meant 'wolf cub.'[1] Richard Lovett's sons, William and Robert Lovett were rewarded with land grants in England that were listed in the Domesday Book and stayed with the family into the twentieth-century.
Richard de Louvet's tomb is at the cathedral in Rouen[dubious ], France. His name[dubious ], and that of his sons' (as Guilliame Louvet) are engraved on the wall of the Notre-Dame Church at Dives-sur-Mer together with other companions of William the Conqueror, Normandy.
Descendants are buried at Soulbury Church at the family manor at Liscombe Park Buckinghamshire England as well as St. Michan's Church in Dublin where Christopher Lovett had been lord mayor in the 1670s, beginning the Irish branch of the family.
Descendants include
- Verney Lovett Cameron 1844-1894
- Sir Edward Lovett Pearce c.1699-1733, noted architect