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Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford

Male 1342 - 1373  (30 years)


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  • Name Humphrey de Bohun 
    Suffix 7th Earl of Hereford 
    Birth 25 Mar 1342  Hereford, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Name Humphrey Bohun 
    Death 16 Jan 1373  [1
    Person ID I944  Bourchiers
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

    Father 1st Earl of Northampton William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton,   b. Abt 1312, Caldecot, Northampton, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Sep 1360, Walden Abbey, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Lady Elizabeth de Badlesmere,   b. Abt 1325   d. 8 Jun 1356, Richmond Palace, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1335  [1
    Family ID F247  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Joan Fitzalan,   b. Abt 1345   d. 17 Apr 1419 (Age 74 years) 
    Marriage Aft 9 Sep 1359 
    Children 
    +1. Eleanor de Bohun, of Gloucester,   b. 1366, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Oct 1399, Aldgate, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years)
    +2. Queen Mary de Bohun, Queen of Henry IV   d. 1394
     3. Elizabeth de Bohun
    Family ID F246  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Dec 2014 

  • Notes 
    • Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton, KG (25 March 1341 – 16 January 1373) 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.

      On his death, because he had no son, the estates of the Earls of Hereford should have passed to his cousin Gilbert de Bohun. Due to the power of the Crown, 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.

      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.

      from http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bohun-14
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  • Sources 
    1. [S7] The Wiki Tree, (http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Plantagenet-Family-Tree-114).