Individual Details

Elizabeth de Badlesmere Countess of Northampton

(1313 - 8 Jun 1356)

Elizabeth de Badlesmere.

GenServ database SMIA7MT, December 1998. Of Baddlesmere Castle,
Kent, England.

Jeraldyne Ann Moore, Ancestors of Ruth Ann Rutherford,
http://www.familytreemaker.com/, 8 November 2000. Born 1307 Ledes
Castle, Kent, England. Married Edmund de Mortimer 27 June 1326.

Ancestors of Harry Deforest Burdick,
http://www.familytreemaker.com/22 December 1999. Born 1307.


This is the ancestry of the Wiley and Dorr families of Maine. It was begun by Leonore Dorr and Keneth Wiley. it is a legay of their love of family

Events

Birth1313Castle Badlesmere, Kent, England
Marriage1335William de Bohun 1st Earl of Northampton
Death8 Jun 1356Windsor Castle, Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Burial18 Jun 1356Black Friars, London, Middlesex, England
Reference No18687

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William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton, was one of the major military figures of the English armies during the Hundred Years War. He commanded one of the three divisions under King Edward III at the great English victory at Crecy in 1346. He also commanded the English army at the battle of Morlaix in 1342. He was later created Knight of the Garter by Edward III. He married Elizabeth de Badlesmere, daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, in 1335. William de Bohun died Sept. 16, 1360, and was buried at Walden Abbey in Essex. He was born c. 1310, one of twin sons, to Humphrey de Bohun VIII, 4th Earl of Hereford and Essex. William de Bohun's mother was ELIZABETH PLANTAGENET, daughter of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile.