Humphrey de Bohun

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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]

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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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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]