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Their son, Henry Lovell, Lord Morley, married Elizabeth, daughter of Michael de la Pole. He was sent by King Henry VII., in 1489, to France to assist the Duchess of Brittany against Charles VIII. of France. He crossed to Calais at the head of 1,000 archers, at Calais he picked up another 1,000 archers, and marched to Dixmude. By this time artillery had begun to take part in war. The archers were ordered, when they saw the guns about to be fired, to throw themselves flat on the ground. Their leader, Lord Morley, sat still on his horse and was killed. With him the Morley family died out. The Morley monument in the Chancel, to the careful observer, shows two lions rampant, that is, apparently standing on their hind legs, one of the lions has a crown on its head, the other has two tails. They are the arms of the Morley family and thereby hangs the tale of a celebrated trial. In mediaeval days every knightly family regarded its family arms as of the gravest importance. A knight might choose some device for his coat of arms, but no two families were allowed the same. In 1895 Sir John Lovell declared that the lions rampant on the Morley family coat of arms belonged to him, as heir of Lord Brunell and not to Sir Thomas Morley. Sir Thomas pleaded that the arms belonged to his ancestors from the Norman conquest. The case was brought before a Court of Chivalry at Calais.
Another Lovell, who died in 1487.His heraldry features a crowned lion - black on white.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lovell,_1st_Viscount_LovellAnd an earlier Baron Morley who died in 1416 features the same lion, according to wikipedia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morley,_4th_Baron_Morley
It also looks like the unmodified Lovel arms are "barry nebuly or and gules" (I've cropped this from Wikipedia, if anyone has a clearer version!), so I'd assume that'd feature *somewhere* too
Ah, you got there the same time as me! See the last edit at the end of my last post.
Where did you get that image from on wikipedia though?