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The information that I've obtained, at least for what I hope is my branch of the family, has the first Bové in England, around 1100. It's possible that he was of Norman origin and came from France with Willian the Conqueror, or perhaps it was his father. BUT, they remained in England until the year 1212 when King John sent soldiers to fight against the Moors in Spain, at the Battle of Navas de Tolosa. That particular Bove decided to remain in Spain and established himself in the small city of Calaf, in the province of Barcelona. His four sons apparently scattered. The oldest stayed in Spain, one went to France, one went to Scotland (where the name morphed into Bowers, Bower, etc) and the youngest went to Italy as a soldier in the army of King Jaime el Conquistador (King of Aragón). There is a document in the Archives of the Kingdom of Aragón, in Barcelona, by which the Emperor Charles V (Charles I of Spain) appoints Antonio Bove as customs collector in the Adriatic port of Monopoli in the 1520s. The name was oringinally spelled BOVER, but over the centuries it lost the R which was replaced by an accent over the E. It was always pronounced the same.
My direct line comes from the Campagna area of Italy, precisely the town of Alife. I can only establish a direct link, going backwards, to Vincenzo, born in Italy in 1858 and died in West Grove, PA in 1942. We're now mostly in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey.
The Spanish Branch and the Italian Branch have similar heraldic shields.
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