Humphrey de Bohun

Abt 1276 - 1322  (~ 46 years)

• Name	Humphrey de Bohun  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1276	England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Mar 1322	Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I1240	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2011

  
  

  Father	Humphrey de Bohun,   b. Abt 1249, England d. 31 Dec 1298, Pleshy, England (Age ~ 49 years)
  Mother	Maud de Fienes   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1275	England   [2]
  Family ID	F628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Plantagenet,   b. 7 Aug 1282   d. 5 May 1316, England (Age 33 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1302	England   [1]
  Children	1. Eleanor de Bohun,   b. 17 Oct 1304, Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, England d. Abt 1363, England (Age 58 years)
  Family ID	F326	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2007

  
  

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• Notes

  Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex (Abt 1276 - 16 Mar 1321/2) was a Magna Charta Surety and a member of the powerful Anglo-Norman family of the Welsh Marches* and was one of the Ordainers who opposed Edward II's excesses. He succeeded his father as Earl of Hereford and Earl of Essex, and Constable of England. and he held the title of Bearer of the Swan Badge, a heraldic device passed down in the Bohun family. He was married to Elizabeth Plantagenet of Rhuddlan about 1302 and they had an unknown number of children, possibly ten. He was slain at Boroughbridge 16 Mar 1321/2 - Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 In 1322, the Battle of Boroughbridge took place as King Edward II overpowered Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, bringing about the end of Edward II's retaliation against those who had opposed him in the Despenser War of 1320-1321 *The Welsh Marches (Welsh: Y Mers) is a term which, in modern usage, denotes an imprecisely defined area along and around the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom. The precise meaning of the term has varied at different periods. The English terms Welsh March, The March of Wales, in Medieval Latin Marchia Walliae, were originally used in the Middle Ages to denote a more precisely defined territory, the marches between England and the Principality of Wales, in which Marcher lords had specific rights, held, to some extent, independently of the king of England. [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S29] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Bulkeley **main, (New Haven, Connecticut, 1933), pp82-83 (Reliability: 3). [S364] Frederick Lewis Weis and Arthur Adams, Magna Charta Sureties, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1999), p18 (Reliability: 3). [S535] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_de_Bohun,_4th_Earl_of_Hereford; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Marches (Reliability: 3).