Editing Boniface of Savoy (bishop) (section)

==Early life==
Boniface and his elder brother [[Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy]] were sons of [[Thomas I, Count of Savoy]], and [[Margaret of Geneva]]. He is thus not to be confused with his nephew and fellow member of the [[House of Savoy]], Count [[Boniface, Count of Savoy|Boniface of Savoy]], the son of Amadeus IV. The elder Boniface was born about 1207 in Savoy.<ref name=DNB/> He was the eleventh child of his parents.<ref name=Gibbs189>Gibbs ''Bishops and Reform'' p. 189</ref> Some sources state that at a young age he joined the [[Carthusian|Carthusian Order]].<ref name=Walsh104>Walsh ''New Dictionary of Saints'' pp. 104–105</ref> However, there is no evidence of this, and it would have been very unusual for a nobleman to enter that order with its very strict discipline.<ref name=Moorman162>Moorman ''Church Life'' p. 162</ref> He also had a brother [[Peter II, Count of Savoy|Peter of Savoy]] who was named [[Earl of Richmond]] in 1240 and yet another brother [[William of Savoy]], who was [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Valence|Bishop of Valence]] and a candidate to be [[Bishop of Winchester]] in England.<ref name=DNB>Knowles "Savoy, Boniface of" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''</ref><ref name=Edward21>Prestwich ''Edward I'' p. 21</ref>