Humphrey de Bohun

Humphrey de Bohun

Male Abt 1276 - 1322  (~ 46 years)

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  • Name Humphrey de Bohun  [1, 2
    Birth Abt 1276  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 16 Mar 1322  Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Person ID I1240  Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
    Last Modified 1 Aug 2011 

    Father Humphrey de Bohun,   b. Abt 1249, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Dec 1298, Pleshy, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Mother Maud de Fienes   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage Abt 1275  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F628  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Plantagenet,   b. 7 Aug 1282   d. 5 May 1316, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1302  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. Eleanor de Bohun,   b. 17 Oct 1304, Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1363, England Find all individuals with events at this location (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 
    1. [S29] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Bulkeley **main, (New Haven, Connecticut, 1933), pp82-83 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S364] Frederick Lewis Weis and Arthur Adams, Magna Charta Sureties, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1999), p18 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S535] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_de_Bohun,_4th_Earl_of_Hereford; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Marches (Reliability: 3).



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