Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Northampton, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, KG (1341–1373)[1] was the son of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, and Elizabeth de Badlesmere, and grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd 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 illegally:
- Eleanor de Bohun (1366 - 3 October 1399); married Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Edward III; mother of Anne of Gloucester.
- Mary de Bohun, who married Henry Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV of England.
- Elizabeth, died young.
Gilbert de Bohun (1296-1381):- grandson of Humphrey de Bohun the 4th Earl of Hereford should have inherited the considerable estates and titles upon the death of his 2nd cousin Humphrey de Bohun 7th Earl of Hereford in 1372.
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. Vol. 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