Viscount Lovell and the Staffords

• Viscount Lovell and the Staffords: 1486

  Minor rising, focused on traditional Yorkist heartlands of Yorkshire and the Midlands.

  • Led by Viscount Lovell (Yorkshire) and Humphery Stafford (Midlands)
  • Attracted little support and was easily suppressed
  • Lovell escaped to Burgundy; Humphery Stafford was captured and executed.

  Significant as it demonstrated that there was little support for a Yorkist uprising at this point.