Boniface of Savoy | |
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| Archbishop of Canterbury | |
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| Church | Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 1 February 1241 |
| Installed | 1249 |
| Term ended | 18 July 1270 |
| Predecessor | Edmund of Abingdon |
| Successor | William Chillenden |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 15 January 1245 by Innocent IV |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 18 July 1270[1] Savoy |
| Buried | Hautecombe Abbey |
| Parents | Thomas I, Count of Savoy Margaret of Geneva |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 14 July |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 1839 by Gregory XVI |
Boniface of Savoy (c. 1207 – 18 July 1270) was a medieval Bishop of Belley in Savoy and Archbishop of Canterbury in England. He was the son of Thomas, Count of Savoy and owed his initial ecclesiastical posts to his father. Other members of his family were also clergymen, and a brother succeeded his father as count. One niece Eleanor of Provence was married to King Henry III of England, and another was married to King Louis IX of France. It was Henry who secured Boniface's election as Archbishop, and throughout his tenure of that office, he spent much time on the continent. He clashed with his bishops, with his nephew-by-marriage, and with the papacy but managed to eliminate the archiepiscopal debt that he had inherited on taking office. During Simon de Montfort's struggle with King Henry, Boniface initially helped Montfort's cause but later supported the king. After his death in Savoy, his tomb became the object of a cult, and he was eventually beatified in 1839.