Boniface Of Savoy

Boniface Of Savoy (born c. 1207—died July 14, 1270, Sainte-Hélène, Savoy) was an 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...