On the 4th January 1483, Francis Lovell was created Viscount Lovell, however, his estates including his home in Oxfordshire, and titles would be the subject of an attainder in 1487 following the Yorkist defeat at the Battle of Stoke Field. One of his other titles lost after the battle was Baron d'Ayncourt.

The d'Ayncourt barony would lay in abeyance until the 17th century when it was granted to Francis Leke. Charles Tennyson, the uncle of Alfred, Lord Tennyson would try unsuccessfully to get his hands on it in the 18th century.

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Looking across fields at Blankney in Lincolnshire.

The ancient family of d’Eyncourt held their manor here at Blankney in Lincolnshire from the 11th century until the 15th when it passed to the Lovell family. The land returned to the crown and the barony went into its first abeyance when Francis Lovell was attainted following his disappearance after the Battle of Stoke Field in 1487.

It was the barony, in its second abeyance in the 18th century, that the Tennysons family at Tealby had their eye on.

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