Henry de Bohun

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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.

Henry married Maud Fitzgeoffrey about 1197 in Essex, England. Maud was born before 1177 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England; died on 27 Aug 1236 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Humphrey V 2nd Earl of Hereford, son and heir of Henry de Bohun, a Magna Charta Surety, returned to the path of loyalty, and was permitted, some time before 1239, to inherit the earldom of Essex from his maternal uncle, William de Mandeville. But in 1258 he fell away, like his father, from the royal to the baronial cause when he was appointed in the Oxford parliament to reform the administration Humphrey V headed the first secession of the Welsh Marchers from the party of the opposition in 1263 and was amongst the captives whom the Montfortians took at Lewes. Later he was selected as one of the twelve arbitrators to draw up the ban of Kenilworth (1266) by which the disinherited rebels were allowed to make their peace.

Humphrey married Maud de Lusignan about 1236 in France. Maud was born about 1208 in La Marche, Poictou, France; died on 12 Aug 1241 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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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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]