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William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville (1392–1461) was a member of the English peerage and an important, powerful landowner in the southwest of England during the late middle ages. Born in the last decade of the fourteenth century, Bonville's father died before Bonville reached adulthood. As a result, he grew up in the household of his grandfather and namesake, who was a prominent member of the Devon gentry. Both Bonville's father and grandfather had been successful in politics and land ownership, resulting in Bonville immediately entering into a large inheritance of both money and land when he reached adulthood. He augmented his inheritance further by a series of lawsuits against his mother's second husband. By this time, he was old enough to undertake royal service, which then meant fighting in France in the latter years of the Hundred Years' War. This Bonville did, and the following year he joined King Henry V's uncle on the King's campaign, which would result in the Battle of Agincourt. Bonville would undertake further operations in France for much of the remainder of his life, but increasingly, events in the southwest of England began taking up more of his time and energies.

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