Sir Nicholas de Bonville Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹¹⁸¹
Nicholas Bonville, who died in 1294, married the heiress of Pyne, of Shute. William, the fourth in descent from Nicholas, was summoned to parliament as Baron Bonville in 1449.

~Magna Britannia, Vol. VI, pp. 95-108

• Background Information. ¹²⁷⁴
Sir William Bonville did homage for his lands in Somerset, 4 Feb 1265. Proof of age, Inq. 48 Hen. III, No. 37 He was the father of Nicholas Bonville wgi died 23 Edw. I (1295). This Nicholas Bonville married Hawise, widow of Thomas Payne, died, Edward I, Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. I, No. 44.

~The History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, Vol. I, p. 394

• Background Information. ¹¹⁸¹
The manor of Shute belonged to a family who took their name from this, the place of their residence, anciently called Schete, and it seems to have passed by marriage to the Pynes. One of the co-heiresses of Sir Thomas Pyne brought this manor to Nicholas Bonville, great-great-grandfather of William Lord Bonville, who was beheaded after the battle of St. Albans.

~Magna Britannia, Vol. VI, pp. 430-431

Nicholas married Hawise de Shute.