Individual Details
Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
(25 Mar 1341 - 16 Jan 1373)
According to Wikipedia:
Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton, 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.
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
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Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton, 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.
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
Events
| Birth | 25 Mar 1341 | ||||
| Marriage | Aft 9 Sep 1359 | Joan FitzAlan | |||
| Death | 16 Jan 1373 |
Families
| Spouse | Joan FitzAlan (1347 - 1419) |
| Child | Mary de Bohun (1369 - 1394) |
| Child | Eleanor de Bohun (1366 - 1399) |
| Father | William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton (1315 - 1360) |
| Mother | Elizabeth de Badlesmere (1313 - 1356) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth de Bohun (1350 - 1385) |