Sir William Bonville Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
Sir William Bonville, son of Sir Nicholas de Bonville and Joan de Champernon, was born about 1340 and died in 1408. He was a large landowner in west England, including Shute, co. Devon, and Sock Dennis, Somerset. He was a member of Parliment eight times form Somerset and twelve times for Devon, sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1380-81, and sheriff of Devon in 1389 and 1400.

Sir William Bonville married, as his first wife, Margaret Daumarle, born about 1347, died in 1399 and daughter and coheir of Sir William Daumarle (of de Albemarle) of Woodbury and Lympstone, co. Devon, and Middle Chynnock, Somerset. Sir William Daumarle died in 1361. His wife and the mother of Margaret Daumarle. was Agnes de Meriet.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 124A:34-35

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
William Bonville, of Chewton, Somerset, son and heir of John Bonville by Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Fitz Roger of Chewton. William succeeded his grandfather, Sir William Bonville, of Shute, 14 Feb 1408. Sir William had married Alice and survived his son John Bonville.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 218

• Background Information. ¹²⁸⁰
Sir William Bonville of Shute married, as his first wife, Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir William de Aumarle of Woodbury, who died 28 May, 1399. By her he had four sons and two daughters.

Sir William married as his second wife, a widow named Alice, who had been previously married three time, her first husband being John Fitz Roger of Chewton, by whom she had her only child, a daughter named Elizabeth.

~West-County Stories and Sketches, Biographical and Historical, "The Last Bonvilles," p. 169

• Background Information. ^1274,1260
Sir William Bonville, Kt., died Feb. 14 1407/8, Inq.p.m. 9 Henry IV, No. 42. will proved at Credition, 1408, Bp. Stafford's Register. Sir William Bonville married first, Alice, relict of Sir Ralph Carnimow and of Sir John Rodeney, who died Sunday after Christmas 1400. In.p.m. 2 Hen. IV, No.32. Sir William Bonville married, as his second wife, Margaret, daughter and heir of William Danmarle, died Trinity Sunday, 22 Rich. II.

Notes and Queries, 5th Series, Vol. VII, p. 52 & The History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, Vol. I, p. 394

William married Margaret Daumarle, daughter of Sir William Daumarle Knight and Hellen de Meriet ^{141,160,1274,1277}.^,1280 (Margaret Daumarle was born about 1347 and died on 25 May 1399 in England.)

William next married Alice ^141,1274.^,1280