Early Life
Alice de Darfield was the daughter and heiress of
Hugh de Darfield by
Clara ___ his wife.
From
Fortunes1:
From this point onwards in the Bosville history we get the valuable help of the Rev. Joseph Hunter, who has much to say of Bosvilles in his History of Hallamshire and still more in his History of South Yorkshire, and who considers (S. Yorkshire, vol. ii. page 109) that with Sir John de Bosville and his wife Alice de Darfield begins 'the authentic and established pedigree of the Bosvilles of Yorkshire, an ancient, numerous and influential family,' and quotes an existing charter by Alicia, wife of Sir John de Bosville, in which, describing herself as '"Alicia de Boysevil uxor D’mi’ Joh’ de Boysevil," she grants in her free widowhood certain rights to Peter her son, "sicut fecerunt in diebus Hugonis de Derfield patris mei."
...
The seal of Alicia, John’s wife, is also in existence; the device a fleur-de-lis with the inscription surrounding it, "S ALIC’ D’ BOSVIL." Part of the deed, to which this seal is affixed is a quit-claim in her free widowhood to "Peter de Boysevil, qui est Dominus feodi" of a pound of pepper (the word is cyminus) which Peter ought to pay for de Bykerthorp and Scotrode.
Footnotes
[1]
The Fortunes of a Family (Bosville of New Hall, Gunthwaite and Thorpe), Lady Macdonald of the Isles, Edinburgh (1927)
