Eleanor de Bohun

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Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormond (17 Oct 1304 - 7 Oct 1363) was an English noblewoman born in Knaresborough Castle to Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Elizabeth daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. After the deaths of her parents, she was placed in the care of her aunt Mary Plantagenet and brought up at Amesbury Priory. Eleanor was married twice; first in 1327 to James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond, (son of Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick and Lady Joan FitzGerald) who died in 1337 and secondly, in 1343, to Thomas de Dagworth who was killed in Brittany in 1352. By her first marriage, Eleanor was an ancestor of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Parr, Queen consorts of King Henry VIII of England. Other descendants include the dukes of Beaufort, Newcastle, Norfolk, earls of Ormond, Desmond, Shrewsbury, Dorset, Rochester, Sandwich, Arundel, and Stafford.

Eleanor married James Butler about 1327 in England. James was born about 1305 in Carrig Mac Griffin, County Tipperary, Ireland; died about 1338 in Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James Butler was born about 1331 in Carrig Mac Griffin, County Tipperary, Ireland; died about 1382.
2. Petronella Butler was born about 1332 in Carrig Mac Griffin, County Tipperary, Ireland; died about 1368 in Ireland.

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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.

Humphrey married Elizabeth Plantagenet about 1302 in England. Elizabeth (daughter of Edward I Longshanks Plantagenet and Leanor of Castile) was born on 7 Aug 1282; died on 5 May 1316 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (7 Aug 1282 - 5 May 1316) was the eighth daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. First marriage In April 1285 there were negotiations with Floris V for Elizabeth's betrothal to his son John I, Count of Holland. The offer was accepted and John was sent to England to be educated. On 8 Jan 1297 Elizabeth was married to John at Ipswich. In attendance at the marriage were Elizabeth's sister Margaret, her father, Edward I of England, her brother Edward, and Humphrey de Bohun. After the wedding Elizabeth was expected to go to Holland with her husband, but did not wish to go, leaving her husband to go alone. It was later decided Elizabeth should follow her husband so she and her father traveled through the Southern Netherlands between Antwerp, Mechelen, Leuven and Brussels, before ending up in Ghent. On 10 Nov 1299, John died of dysentery. No children had been born from the marriage. Second marriage On 14 November 1302 Elizabeth was married to Humphrey de Bohun at Westminster Abbey.

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Humphrey b. 1249 lives in history as one of the recalcitrant barons of the year 1297, who extorted from Edward I the Conffrmalio Cartarum.

Humphrey married Maud de Fienes about 1275 in England. Maud and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Edward I House of Plantagenet, King of England 1272-1307 Known as "Longshanks" for his extraordinary height, Edward, son of King Henry III, was a strong-willed, militaristic king who succeeded in subduing Wales but failed to conquer Scotland. He made significant changes to feudal law, strengthening both the Crown and Parliament at the cost of the old nobility. Edward Longshanks was a statesman, lawyer and soldier. He formed the Model Parliament in 1295, bringing together the knights, clergy, nobility and burgesses of the cities, bringing Lords and Commons together for the first time. Aiming at a united Britain, he defeated the Welsh chieftains and desgnated his eldest son Prince of Wales.

Edward married Leanor of Castile on 1 Nov 1254 in Abbey of Santa Mar. was born about 1241 in Kingdom of Castile, Hispania; died about 1290 in Harby, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Eleanor of Castile (Abt 1241 - 28 Nov 1290) was the first queen consort of Edward I of England. She was also Countess of Ponthieu in her own right from 1279 until her death in 1290, succeeding her mother and ruling together with her husband. Eleanor was born in Castile [Hispania] daughter of Saint Ferdinand, King of Castile and Leon and his second wife, Joan, Countess of Ponthieu. Her Castilian name, Leonor, became Alienor or Alianor in England, and Eleanor in modern English. She was the second of five children born to Fernando and Jeanne. Her elder brother Fernando was born in 1239/40, her younger brother Louis in 1242/43; two sons born after Louis died young. For the ceremonies in 1291 marking the first anniversary of Eleanor's death, 49 candlebearers were paid to walk in the public procession to commemorate each year of her life. This would date her birth to the year 1241.
Ponthieu was one of six feudal counties that eventually merged to become part of the Province of Picardy, in northern France. Its chief town was Abbeville. During the Hundred Years' War* (roughly 1337-1453), Ponthieu changed hands a number of times In late August of 1346, during his campaigns on French soil, Edward III of England reached the region of Ponthieu. While there, he restored the fortress at Crotoy that had been ruined. In April, 1369 Charles V of France conquered Ponthieu, and a month later declared war on England. In 1372 an English army under the leadership of Robert Knolles invaded Ponthieu, burning the city of Le Crotoy. Also during the Hundred Years' War; in 1435, Charles VII of France bribed Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to break his alliance with the English in exchange for possession of Ponthieu.
*The Hundred Years' War was a series of wars waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou, for the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings. The House of Valois claimed the title of King of France, while the Plantagenets claimed the thrones of both France and England. The Plantagenet kings were the 12th-century rulers of the kingdom of England, and had their roots in the French regions of Anjou and Normandy. The conflict lasted 116 years but was punctuated by several periods of peace, before it finally ended with the expulsion of the Plantagenets from France (except from the Pale of Calais) by the House of Valois. However, the war nearly ruined the Valois, while the Plantagenets enriched themselves with plunder. France suffered greatly from the war, since most of the conflict occurred in that country. The "war" was in fact a series of conflicts and is commonly divided into three or four phases: the Edwardian War (1337-1360), the Caroline War (1369-1389), the Lancastrian War (1415-1429), and the slow decline of Plantagenet fortunes after the appearance of Joan of Arc (1412-1431). Several other contemporary European conflicts were directly related to this conflict: the Breton War of Succession, the Castilian Civil War, the War of the Two Peters, and the 1383-1385 Crisis. The term "Hundred Years' War" was a later term invented by historians to describe the series of events

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Humphrey de Bohun, 1220, predeceased his father in 1265 so the earldom passed through him to his son. His father died in 1275.

Humphrey married Eleanor de Braiose about 1239 in Brechknock, Breconshire, Wales. Eleanor was born about 1230 in Breconshire, Wales; died about 1251; was buried about 1251 in Llanthony, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Llanthony Secunda Priory is a ruined former Augustinian priory in Hempsted, Gloucester, England. Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, founded the priory for the monks of Llanthony Priory, Vale of Ewyas, in what is now Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1136.

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Henry III Plantagenet, King of England 1216-1272 was 9 years old when he became King. Brought up by priests he became devoted to the church, art, and learning. In 1264 Henry was captured during the rebellion of Barons led by Simon de Montfort and was forced to set up a 'Parlement' at Westminster which later became the House of Commons. Henry was the greatest of all patrons of medieval architecture and ordered the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey in the Gothic style.

Henry married Eleanore of Provence about 1216 in England. was born about 1207; died about 1291. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Noted that King Henry III was age 9 at the time he married to Eleanore of Provence