Boniface, of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1206 or 1207-1270

found: Catholic encyclopedia online, March 7, 2013(Boniface of Savoy, forty-sixth Archbishop of Canterbury and son of Thomas, Count of Savoy, date of birth uncertain; d. in Savoy, 14 July, 1270)

found: Oxford dictionary of national biography online, March 7, 2013(Savoy, Boniface of (1206/7-1270), archbishop of Canterbury, was probably the seventh son of Thomas (I), count of Savoy (1178-1233), and Marguerite (d. 1258), daughter of either Guillaume, count of Geneva (1137-1195), or the lord of Faucigny)

found: Britannica Academic Edition online, March 7, 2013(Boniface Of Savoy, (born c. 1207-died July 14, 1270, Sainte-Hélène, Savoy), archbishop of Canterbury who, because he was a foreigner and because he attempted to remedy the financial disarray of his see, won the enmity of the English clergy. He succeeded in repaying a portion of the immense debt incurred by his predecessor, Edmund of Abingdon, and is also remembered for the hospital he founded at Maidstone, Kent. A son of the Count of Savoy, Boniface entered the Carthusian order in his childhood. He was elected bishop of Belley in Burgundy in 1234. After his niece married King Henry III of England, Boniface was, through the King's influence, chosen in 1241 to serve as archbishop of Canterbury. Circumstances prevented him from taking office until 1244; at that time he also made his first visit to England.)

found: LC database, March 7, 2013(old cat. hdg.: Boniface of Savoy, abp. of Canterbury, 1207-1270)