Humphrey de Bohun

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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]

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.

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]