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 earned a doctor of theology title by 1244. at York by Walter de Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester. Pope Alexander IV then provided Jordan, an Italian, to the now vacant deanery, but Bovil objected and attempted to keep Jordan out.