Person:Humphrey de Bohun (2)

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Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Northampton, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, KG (1341–1373) 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.

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.

1.   Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
   Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Nichols, John. A collection of all the wills, now known to be extant, of the kings and queens of England, princes and princessess of Wales, and every branch of the blood royal: from the reign of William the Conqueror to that of Henry the Seventh, exclusive, with explanatory notes and a glossary. (London: J. Nichols, 1780)
   pages 57 to 58.

   The will may be read here (in Anglo-Norman).

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Abbey of Walden, in Essex no. 1, in Dugdale, William; Henry J Ellis; Bulkeley Bandinel; Roger Dodsworth; and John Caley. Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales, also of such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries as were any manner connected with religious houses in England. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1817-1830)
   Vol. 4, p. 141.

   Anno Domini mccclxxij. xvj. kal. Februarij, obiit Humfredus de Boun, comes Herefordiae, Essexiae, et Northamptoniae, cujus corpus in boriali parte presbyterii nostri, ad pedes patris sui jacet humatum.

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 HUMPHREY (X) de Bohun, in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
5.   Dugdale, William; Henry J Ellis; Bulkeley Bandinel; Roger Dodsworth; and John Caley. Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales, also of such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries as were any manner connected with religious houses in England. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1817-1830)
   Volume 6, part 1, page 135.

   Post cujus decessum comitatus Herefordiæ et Essexiæ, cum domino Breconiæ, descendebat Humfrido undecimo, filio dicti comitis Northamtoniæ et constabularii Angliæ, et sic dictus Humfridus undecimus fuit comes Herefordiæ, Essexiæ, et Northamptoniæ, constabularius Angliæ, et dominus Breconiæ. Qui quidem Humfredus undecimus desponsavit Johannam filiam Richardi comitis Arundeliæ et de Surreia.