Sewal de Bovil [SEP] position held
Sewal de Bovil
Sewal de Bovil (died 1258) was a medieval Archbishop of York.
Life.
Nothing is known of Bovil's origins or his parents, but he attended Oxford University at around the same time as Edmund of Abingdon, who became Bovil's good friend. He first appears as a canon of York Minster in 1236, and was holding the prebend of Fenton by October 1240. He was Archdeacon of York by January 1248, but had been named Dean of York by 21 September 1249. He
John Gervais
John Gervais was a medieval Bishop of Winchester.
Life.
Gervais was a clerk of the diocese of Exeter and educated in physical sciences. He held the prebends of Fenton and Warthill in the diocese of York before becoming chancellor of the diocese of York. He made a trip to Rome on business about the election of Archbishop Sewal de Bovil to York and became a papal chaplain under Pope Alexander IV. In 1260 he was named Bishop of Carlisle by Archbishop Godfrey Ludham of York, but the election was