Henry de Bohun

Bef 1177 - 1220  (~ 43 years)

• Name	Henry de Bohun  [1]
  Birth	Bef 1177	Warwick, Warwickshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Jun 1220	Palestine   [1]
  Person ID	I1714	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	23 Jul 2011

  
  

  Father	Humphrey de Bohun,   b. Abt 1143, Gloucestershire, England d. Abt 1182, England (Age ~ 39 years)
  Mother	Margaret de Huntingdon,   b. Abt 1154, Northumberland, England d. Abt 1201, England (Age ~ 47 years)
  Marriage	Bef Apr 1175	England
  Family ID	F644	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maud Fitzgeoffrey,   b. Bef 1177, Warwick, Warwickshire, England d. 27 Aug 1236, England (Age ~ 59 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1197	Essex, England   [1]
  Children	1. Humphrey de Bohun,   b. Bef 1208, Hungerford, Essex, England d. 24 Sep 1275, England (Age ~ 67 years)
  Family ID	F632	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jul 2011

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  Henry de Bohun became the first Earl of Hereford of the Bohun family, for he was so created by the Charter of King John, dated 28 April 1199. He was connected with the royal house of Scotland through his mother Margaret, a sister of William the Lion, an alliance which no doubt assisted him in obtaining the earldom from John He was among the twenty-five barons (the Sureties or "King's Ordainers") who were elected by their fellows to enforce the terms of the Magna Charta of 1215. As he took a prominent part with the Barons against King John, his lands were confiscated. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons on the 1st Crusade to the Holy Land but he died in Palestine in 1220. [1, 2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S364] Frederick Lewis Weis and Arthur Adams, Magna Charta Sureties, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1999), p18 (Reliability: 3). [S534] Website, http://gatekeepkey.org/BohunCrest.htm (Reliability: 3).