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Hugh Boyville was a landowner who held a number of public offices and served as a Member of Parliament for Rutland in 1439-40 and 1447. ==Background and family== The Boyville (Bovile, Boyvile, Boyvill, Boyvyle) family is recorded at Stockerston, Leicestershire as early as the 13th century. Although in a different county, Stockerston is only a few miles from Ridlington, where Hugh Boyville lived. There is a strong reason to believe that Hugh was a son of Sir Thomas Boyville (c.1370-1401) of Stockerston and his wife Elizabeth Walsh, as in 1439 John Boyville and Hugh Boyville were described as kinsmen to Thomas Walsh, a lunatic, when they were granted custody of his lands and person; Thomas Walsh was a brother of Thomas Boyville’s wife Elizabeth. If Hugh was indeed a brother of John, he would have been his younger brother, as John was identified as Thomas’ heir in the inquisition post mortem that followed his death.〔Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, 1st series, volume 18, No. 689.〕 This being so, Hugh would have been born between John’s birth in 1391 and shortly after their father’s death in 1401. The History of Parliament estimates Hugh’s year of birth as 1410, but does not explain the reasoning for that estimate. Details of Hugh’s maternal ancestry were provided as evidence in litigation relating to property that took place in 1486 between his son William and John Norwich of Brampton Dingley. The evidence submitted in connection with that case stated that Hugh married, as her second husband, Alice who was a daughter of Richard Christian and sister and heir of his son who was also named Richard Christian. Hugh’s offspring included at least two sons: * William – living in 1486. * Richard – who received the Manor of Little Oxendon from his father Hugh Boyvile of Ridlington, Rutland. It is not known how many times Hugh was married; of his two sons only William is specifically identified as a son of Alice Christian. Hugh died at some stage between the regnal year 7 Henry VI (i.e. 1467-8), when he transferred the manor of Little Oxendon to his son Richard, and 1486 when his son William claimed to have inherited property from his father. The relevant volume of the History of Parliament mistakenly estimates Hugh’s death as taking place about 1465 without stating why that year was proposed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugh Boyville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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