Early Life
Peter Bosvile was the third son of
Sir John Bosvile and
Alice de Darfield, the daughter of
Hugh de Darfield.
Family Life
From
Fortunes of a Family1:
It was Peter, the third son, who carried on the family in the early days of the fourteenth century when Edward I was king. He had married Beatrix de Furnivall, daughter of Gerard, Lord Furnivall...Godfrey Bosville tells us that this Lord Furnivall was one of the greatest barons of England and that his father was one of those who signed Magna Charta [sic].
The Furnivalls were lords of Hallamshire, and Hunter says in his Hallamshire (page 31) that Joan Furnivall was the wife of Thomas Bosville of Cavil in Yorkshire, and that they ahve a monument in the church at Eastrington in the East Riding. Joan was the youngest daughter of Thomas Lord Furnivall (who succeeded his father wand was forty years of age in 1332; he died at Sheffield in 1339 and was buried in the Abbey of Beauchief) and of Joan, the child-widow of William de Montacute and eldest daughter and co-heir of Theodore de Verdon, a great baron in Staffordshire, by Maud his wife, daughter of Edmund Lord Mortimer.
Lady Furnivall was born 1304, died in childbed 1334, and was laid with her ancestors in the church of Croxden Abbey. It seems likely that if one Bosville could marry a Furnivall - and Hunter does not dispute Thomas of Cavil's alliance with Joan de Furnivall - another Bosville's marriage with another Furnivall [i.e the marriage of Peter Bosvile and Beatrix Furnivalle] is not surprising.
Footnotes
[1]
The Fortunes of a Family (Bosville of New Hall, Gunthwaite and Thorpe), Lady Macdonald of the Isles, Edinburgh (1927)
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