Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
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Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Northampton, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, KG (25 March 1341 – 16 January 1373)[1] was the son of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, and Elizabeth de Badlesmere, and grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, by Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I. He became heir to the Earldom of Hereford after the death of his childless uncle Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford.
Following King Peter I's visit to England, Humphrey participated in the sack of Alexandria in 1365.[2]
His wife and the mother of his daughters was Joan Fitzalan, daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel, and Eleanor of Lancaster, whom he married after 9 September 1359.
On his death, his great estates were divided between his two surviving daughters:
- Eleanor de Bohun, who married Thomas of Woodstock.
- Mary de Bohun, who married Henry Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV of England.
- Elizabeth, died young.
Ancestry[]
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Notes[]
- ^ Shaw, Wm. A. (1971). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Knights Bachelors. 1. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 3. OCLC 247620448.
- ^ Anthony Goodman, The Loyal Conspiracy:The Lords Appellant under Richard II, (The University of Miami Press, 1971), 12.
References[]
- Hazlitt, William Carew, and Thomas Blount. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors. 4th. London: Ballentine and Company, 1874. ad
- Medieval Lands Project on Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
- 1341 births
- 1373 deaths
- Earls of Hereford (1199)
- Earls of Essex (1239)
- Earls of Northampton (1337)
- 14th-century English people
- Bohun family
- Christians of the Alexandrine Crusade