John Boyville

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John Boyville (1391-c.1467) was a major landowner who served as a Member of Parliament for Leicestershire and for Rutland respectively in 1453-4 and 1460-1.

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Background and family

The Boyville (Bovile, Boyvile, Boyvill, Boyvyle) family is recorded at Stockerston, Leicestershire as early as the 13th century. John was born on 24 June 1391, a son and the heir of Sir Thomas Boyville (c.1370-1401) and his wife Elizabeth Walsh. [1]

Career

Offices that John held included Sheriff of Rutland for the years 1433 [2] and 1447. [3]

John Boyvyle armiger was returned as Member of Parliament for Rutland in 1428, [4] but he was described as of Stockerston when he served as Member of Parliament for Leicestershire in 1453-4. When he represented Rutland in the Parliament of 1460-1 he was described as an esquire of Ridlington. [5] Although the parishes of Stockerston and Ridlington are in different counties, they are within a few miles of each other.

Family [6]

John’s first marriage was to Elizabeth, the widow of Sir Robert Langford, by whom he had three daughters – Elizabeth, Anne and Margaret. His second marriage was to Eleanor, who after his death married John Maners. [7]

Death and property

The memorials inside the church of St Peter, Stockerston include a brass commemorating John and his first wife. The inscription is recorded as "orate pro animabus Johannis Boivile Armig. & Eliz. uxoris ejus, qui hoc campanile cum campanis fieri fecerunt, 1467" (i.e. "pray for the souls of John Boivile, a bearer of arms, and Elizabeth his wife who had this bell tower and bells made"). [8] It is not totally clear from that printed source whether the year "1467" was part of the inscription itself or is an editorial note.

John’s assets were divided after his death between his widow and the three daughters of his first marriage. Eleanor received as her dower the manors of Cranoe and Slawston for life. John’s other properties at that stage were the manor of Ayston, Rutland, and also lands at Welham, Illston on the Hill and East Norton in Leicestershire and at Bisbrooke in Rutland. [9] He also held one third of the manor of Packington Pigot at Little Packington, Warwickshire. [10]

On 22 January 1465/6, John de Boyvile, esquire, was granted a licence to found a perpetual almshouse for a chaplain and three poor men near Stockerston church. [11] However, the almshouse had not been established by the time of John's death. The executors of his will applied for and received a further royal licence, granted on 9 July 1468, to found the same perpetual almshouse and also a perpetual chantry with one chaplain to be called the chantry of the Virgin Mary in Stockerston church (or commonly "Boyviles Chaunterie"). [12] John's executors were:

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References

  1. ↑ Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1st series, volume 18, No. 689.
  2. ↑ Calendar of Fine Rolls, Vol. 16, page 112
  3. ↑ Rogers, Alan (2010). "Rutland Gentry in the Reigns of Henry VI and Edward IV". Rutland Local History & Record Society. Rutland Local History & Record Society. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Rogers, Alan (2010). "Rutland Gentry in the Reigns of Henry VI and Edward IV". Rutland Local History & Record Society. Rutland Local History & Record Society. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  5. ↑ Wedgewood, Josiah C. History of Parliament: Biographies of the Members of the Common House 1439-1509. London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office. pp. 98–99.
  6. ↑ Farnham, George Francis (1925). Leicestershire Medieval Pedigrees. Leicester: W Thornley & Son. p. 102.
  7. ↑ Farnham, George Francis (1925). Leicestershire Medieval Pedigrees. Leicester: W Thornley & Son. p. 102 .
  8. ↑ Burton, William (1777). Proposals for Printing by Subscription, a New Edition of The Description of Leicestershire: Containing Matters of Antiquity, History, Armory and Genealogy. p. 255. - this is a revised edition of the book by the noted antiquary William Burton, which was first published in 1622.
  9. ↑ Farnham, George Francis (1925). Leicestershire Medieval Pedigrees. Leicester: W Thornley & Son. p. 106.
  10. ↑ Salzman, LF (1947). "A History of the County of Warwick". British History Online. Victoria County History. pp. 183–186. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  11. ↑ Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV, 1461-1467, page 486.
  12. ↑ Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV & Henry VI, 1467-1477, page 113.
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