The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. II.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Loueney : for Louvigny, a well-known Norman house, that bore Argent, a chevron Sable, between three wolves' heads of the last. The De Louvignys were Sires de la Martiniere and Marette, in the district of Bernay; and De Louvigny de la Marette sat in the great assembly of the "Ordre de la Noblesse" convoked in 1789 at Rouen for the election of the States General.

In England Walter de Louveney was Sheriff of Dorset and Somerset in 1292 and 1293; and at that time one of the principal landowners in Somersetshire. But I can find no account of his descendants. William Louveney, in 1408, served as Sheriff for Essex and Hertfordshire. Louveney's Manor, in the parish of Thurston, Norfolk, and Great and Little Loveney Hall, in the parish of Colne Wakes, Essex, speak of their possessions in the Eastern counties. William de Loveney, who appears in the list of Essex gentry in 1433, was probably the same William that was Lord of Stratton, in Suffolk, in 1417; and received from Henry IV. Worton, in the parish of Isleworth, for life.—Lysons' Middlesex. According to Morant, he was succeeded by John de Loveney, living in 1440, and probably the last of the family, as his next heir was Thomas Cavendish. Domina Mabil de Luveny held Thoresby, Lincolnshire, of Segrave.—Testa de Nevill. John Loveney was Archdeacon of Hereford in 1404. They bore Argent a fesse between three cocks Gules. In the Norman Exchequer Rolls of 1198, "Juhel de Louvigny rendered accompt for a hearing of the gift, which Ranulph Earl of Chester had made to him of land at St. Martin and other places, as the charter of the Earl testified."