When Margaret Boyvill was born about 1435, in Stockerston, Leicestershire, England, her father, John Boyville, was 45 and her mother, Elizabeth Cheyne, was 47. She married Thomas Restwold in 1455, in England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died after 1515.
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Wars of the Roses was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England between the royal families House of Lancaster and the House of York. The name of the war was derived as the red rose was the symbol of the Lancastrians and the white rose was the symbol of the Yorks.
Book of Common Prayer, a product of the English Reformation, was published in 1549 for assistance in the administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church according to the use of the Church of England. The book outlined morning, evening, and communion prayers and orders for baptism and marriage, thus making England a truly Protestant state.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of several places in Normandy whose medieval forms share a similar range of variants, such as Bouville (Seine-Maritime), any of several places called Biéville (Calvados, Manche) or Biville (Manche, Seine-Maritime), Beuzeville-la-Giffard (Seine-Maritime), Boiville (Orne), and perhaps Boudeville (Seine-Maritime). See also Boswell and Beville .
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