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Henry de Bohun 1st Earl of Hereford
- Preferred Name: Henry de Bohun 1st Earl of Hereford[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]
- Gender: M
- Burial: AFT 1 JUN 1220 in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8601 LONG: E2.2572
- Title of Nobility: with note: Description: 1st Earl of Essex
- Death: 1 June 1220. 45 yrs old in Palestine at LATI: N1.67 LONG: E5.25
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Earl of Hereford28 APR 1200 in Portchester, Hampshire, England at LATI: N0.85 LONG: E1.1392
- Birth: 1175 in Oaksey Manor, Malmsbury, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.6419 LONG: E2.0108
- Title+Of+Nobility: 28 APR 1200 with note: Description: 1st Earl of Hereford
https://www.thepeerage.com/p10287.htm#i102869
- Battle+of+Lincoln: 20 MAY 1217 in Lincolnshire, England with note: Description: Prisoner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lincoln_(1217) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_Bohun,_1st_Earl_of_Hereford
- Occupation: Sheriff of Gloucester with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_Bohun,_1st_Earl_of_Hereford
- Occupation: Lord High Constable of England1199 with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_Bohun,_1st_Earl_of_Hereford
- Magna+Carta+Surety: 1215 in Runnymede, Staines, Surrey, England at LATI: N1.4333 LONG: E0.5167 with note: ference: Magna Carta Ancestry by Douglas Richardson (2005)
pp. 99-105; and The Magna Charta barons and their American descendants : together with the pedigrees of the founders of the Order of Runnemede deduced from the sureties for the enforcement of the statutes of the Magna Charta of King John by Charles Henry Browning, Philadelphia, 1898 pp. 80-82
- Title of Nobility: 28 APR 1200 in Portchester, Hampshire, England at LATI: N0.85 LONG: E1.1392 with note: Description: Earl of Hereford
- FSID: L2VZ-XXJ
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Wikipedia -
Henry IV de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176 - 1 June 1220) of Pleshy Castle in Essex, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who became Hereditary Constable of England from 1199.
Origins
He was the son and heir of Humphrey III de Bohun (pre-1144-1181) of Trowbridge Castle in Wiltshire and of Caldicot Castle in south-east Wales, 5th feudal baron of Trowbridge, who served King Henry II as Lord High Constable of England. His mother was Margaret of Huntingdon, widow of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (d.1171) and a daughter of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, son of King David I of Scotland by his wife Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon. Henry's half-sister was Constance, Duchess of Brittany.
Earldom
His paternal grandmother was Margaret of Hereford, a daughter of Miles FitzWalter of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, Lord of Brecknock (died 1143), Sheriff of Gloucester and Constable of England. After the male line of Miles of Gloucester failed, in 1199 King John created Henry de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Constable of England. His lands lay chiefly on the Welsh Marches, and from this date the Bohuns took a foremost place among the Marcher barons.
Henry de Bohun was one of the twenty-five barons elected by their peers to enforce the terms of Magna Carta in 1215. He was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope. In the civil war that followed Magna Carta, he was a supporter of King Louis VIII of France and was captured at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217.
Marriage and issue
He married Maud de Mandeville (alias Maud FitzGeoffrey), daughter and heiress of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, of Pleshy Castle in Essex, by whom he had issue including:
1. Humphrey IV de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, 1st Earl of Essex (1204-1275), eldest son and heir, created Earl of Essex in 1239, who married Maud de Lusignan, by whom he had at least three children.
2. Henry de Bohun, who died young.
3. Ralph de Bohun.
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Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent1,2,3,4,5,6
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M, #9122, b. circa 1175, d. 1 June 1220
Father Sir Humphrey IV de Bohun, Constable of England7,8 b. c 1144, d. 1182
Mother Margaret, Princess of Scotland7,8 b. c 1145, d. 1201
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent was born circa 1175 at of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England; Age 10 in 1185.2,4 He married Maud de Mandeville, daughter of Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers, 4th Earl of Essex, Chief Justiciar of England, Constable of the Tower of London, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Westmorland, Hampshire, & Shropshire and Beatrice de Say, circa 1192;
They had 2 sons (Sir Humphrey, Earl of Hereford & Essex; & Henry).2,3,4,5,6
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent died on 1 June 1220 at Holy Land; Buried with his son (Henry) in the Chapter House of Llanthony Priory, Gloucester, Gloucestershire.2,4
Family
Maud de Mandeville b. 1178, d. 27 Aug 1236
Children
Sir Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford, 7th Earl of Essex, Sheriff of Kent, Constable of the Exchequer, England, & Dover Castle+9,2,3,4 b. c 1200, d. 24 Sep 1275
Sir Henry de Bohun, Rector of Farley4 b. a 1220
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#HumphreyBohundied1265A as of 1/31/2016
HENRY de Bohun, son of HUMPHREY [IV] de Bohun, hereditary Constable of England & hi
=== Biography ===
Surety Baron, signer of the Magna Carta. Earl of Hereford and fifth descendant from Malcom III, King of Scotland. Married Matilda de Mandeville and had three children, Humphrey, Henry and Ralph.Died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
For more, see links to Medieval Lands and Wikipedia articles in Sources.
=== 1st Earl of Hereford by charter of creat ===
1st Earl of Hereford by charter of creation 27 April 1199. Constable of England. One of the 25 Barons who forced King John to accept the Magna Carta, 1215. He fought against the King in the ensuing civil war.He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
=== Signer of the Magna Charta ===
Signer of the Magna Charta
=== Henry de Bohun, who in reality was the 1 ===
Henry de Bohun, who in reality was the 1st Earl of Hereford of this family, being so created by charter of King John, dated 28 April, 1199, but the constableship he inherited from his father. His lordship, taking part with the barons against King John, had his lands sequestered, but they were restored at the signing of Magna Carta, at Runnymede, the earl being one of the twenty-five lords appointed there to enforce the observance of the celebrated charters. His lordship was subsequently excommunicated by the pope and he became a prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in the 1st year of Henry III [1216-17]. He m. Maud, dau. of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex, and eventually heiress of her brother, William de Mandeville, last Earl of Essex of that family, by whom he acquired the honour of Essex and other extensive lordships, ---and had issue, Henry, d. young, Humphrey, and Ralph, and a dau. Margery, who m. Waleran, Earl of Warwick. His lordship d. 1 January 1220 and was s. by his son, Humphrey de Bohun. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57, Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, and High Constables of England]
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Henry de Bohun, Magna Charta Surety 1215, son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and Margaret de Huntingdon, born 1176, died 1 Jun 1220, sheriff of Kent, 1st Earl of Hereford 1200-1290, hereditary Constable of England; married Maud Fitz Geoffrey, died 1236, Countess of Essex, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, died 1213, Earl of Essex, and Beatrix de Say, daughter of William de Say. [Magna Charta Sureties]
Note: It is not my error in typing (but probably MCS's); Henry appears to have been Earl of Hereford until 1290, which was 70 years after his death!
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HENRY de BOHUN, the Surety, was born before 1177. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was so created by the Charter of King John, dated 28 April 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King, on becoming Earl of Hereford he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs, on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office of Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. As he took a prominent part with the Barons against King John, his lands were confiscated, but he received them again at the granting of Magna Charta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220, and died on the passage 1 June 1220. His body was brought home and buried in the chapter-house of Llanthony Abbey in Gloucestershire.
His wife, Maud FitzGeoffrey, was the daughter of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Baron de Mandeville, and his first wife, Beatrix Saye.
The name of Bohun suggests Hereford. Unfortunately, Hereford Castle no longer exists. It was built in 1048, and apparently consisted of a moat and bailey. The mound has been leveled to the ground, but the bailey is outlined by high banks. One report has it that all that remains is a platform and a piece of a ditch.
The Castle was once sitmacted near the present Bishop's Palace. It was seriously battered in an attack in 1055, but it was restored, and was again in use in 1067. The site which it now occupies is a public garden, gay with shrubbery and flowers. An ornamental lake indicates where once was the moat, but the outlines of the walls are shown only by grass covered ridges. [National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons; www.magnacharta. org]
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1st Earl of Hereford, Sheriff of Kent, magna Carta Surrety, Constable of England, died in 1220 on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
=== ( Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith ) Henry ===
( Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith ) Henry de Bohun, Surety for the Observance of the Magna Charta, eldest son and heir, was born before 1177 and was in reality the 1st Earl of Hereford, being so created by Charter of King John, dated April 28, 1199, but the office of Lord High Constable was inherited from his father. He took a prominent part with the barons against King John, and in consequence his lands were sequestered, but he received them again at the granting of the Magna Charta. In 1220 he joined Saire de Quincey and other barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and died in passage June 1, 1220. His body was brought back home and buried in Loanthony Abbey in Gloucester. He married Maud, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz-piers and his wife, Beatrix de saye, sister and heiress of Geoffrey de Mandeville, a surety for Magna Charta. ( Kin of mellcene Thurman Smith ) Henry de Bohun, surety for the Observance of the Magna Charta, eldest son and heir, was born before 1177 and was in reality the 1st Earl of Hereford, being so created by Charter of King John, dated April 28, 1199, but the office of Lord High Constable was inherited from his father. He took a prominent part with the barons against King John, and in consequence his lands were sequestered, but he received them again at the granting of the Magna Charta. In 1220 he joined Saire de Quincey and other barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and died in passage June 1, 1220. His body was brought back home and buried in Loanthony Abeey in Gloucester. He married Maud, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz - Piers and his wife Beatrix de Saye, sister and heiress of Geoffrey de Mandeville, a surety for Magna Charta.
=== !Per "My Boone Family": this Henry deBo ===
!Per "My Boone Family": this Henry deBohun was noted as "d.s.p."
=== Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford. ===
Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford. In 1200 was Hereditary Constable of England.harta Sur ety, 1215. Died on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Henry de Bohun, Magna Charta Surety 1215, son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and Margaret de Huntingdon, born 1176, died 1 Jun 1220, sheriff of Kent, 1st Earl of Hereford 1200-1290, hereditary Constable of England; married Maud Fitz Geoffrey, died 1236, Countess of Essex, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, died 1213, Earl of Essex, and Beatrix de Say, daughter of William de Say. [Magna Charta Sureties] Humphrey de Bohun was Earl of Hereford and Constable of England in right of his mother, if the Chronicles of Llanthony be correct. His lordship m. Margaret of Scotland, dau. of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, sister of William, King of Scots, and widow of Conan le Petit, Earl of Brittany and Richmond, and was s. by his son, Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57, Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, and High Constables of England] Note: Note: Title: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 Note: Page: 18-1 Note: Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 Note: Page: 2944 Note: Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 Note: Page: 97-26 Note: Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 Note: Page: X:793
=== Died and buried at sea; he was on Plgram ===
Died and buried at sea; he was on Plgramage enroute to Holy Land. He was Fifth Earl of Hereford. He was Sheriff of Kent He was a Surety.
=== Magna Carta ===
Surety of the Magna Carta
=== Earl of Hereford. A "Magna Charta Baron" ===
Earl of Hereford. A "Magna Charta Baron".
=== [[Category:House of Bohun]] ===
[[Category:House of Bohun]]
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== Biography ==
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| image = Bohun-80.png}}Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176 - 1220) was an English Norman nobleman and a Magna Carta surety.[Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_Bohun,_1st_Earl_of_Hereford Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford] (accessed June 14, 2015)]
===Birth and Parentage===
Henry de Bohun, son and heir, was born about 1175 (aged 10 in 1185). In 1185 he was a minor in the custody of his widowed grandmother, Margaret de Bohun.
Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol I, pp 406-410
"Henry (c. 1175-1220) was the son of Humphrey de Bohun (d. 1181) andMargaret (d. 1201), daughter of Henry, earl of Northumberland, and widow of Conan IV, duke of Brittany. His grandmother was Margaret de Bohun, the daughter of Miles of Gloucester, earl of Hereford, one of the earliest and most consistent supporters of the Empress Matilda in the civil war of King Stephen’s reign. Margaret brought to the de Bohunsher family’s claims to the royal constableship and to the earldom of Hereford. The constable’s office had been granted to her son - Henry’s father - by 1174 and was therefore inherited by Henry himself, who used the style ‘Henry the Constable’ in a number of his early charters. Despite his youth he occasionally attested charters of Richard I and was one of the king’s sureties in negotiations with thecount of Flanders in 1197.
Text from the article,"[http://magnacarta800th.com/schools/biographies/the-25-barons-of-magna-carta/henry-de-bohun/ Henry de Bohun]," courtesy of Professor NigelSaul and the [http://magnacarta800th.com/ Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee]
Henry was the son of Humphrey III de Bohun and Margaret of Huntingdon,Princess of Scotland, daughter of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, a son of David I of Scotland.
===Hereditary Titles===
Henry is referred to as 1st Earl of Hereford by many sources includingWikipedia.[ Adec, Family History Library 929.273,C769w] He is referred to as the 5th Earl of Hereford by Richardson.
In fact, the title "Earl of Hereford" was created and dissolved a number of times[Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Hereford Earl of Hereford]] The title was created three times and hadthree incumbents prior to the Norman Conquest, the last of whom, EarlHarold Godwinson became King Harold II, defeated by William the Conqueror. The title was created three times following the Norman Conquest. Henry is the first Earl in the 6th Creation, the 5th earl of Hereford since the Norman Conquest, and the 8th earl of Hereford in all.
Henry also inherited the title Constable of England.
=== 1197 Marriage ===
He married Maud de Mandeville of Essex, daughter of Geoffrey Fitzpeter, 1st Earl of Essex.
He married Maud Fitz Piers, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, Earl of Essex (d.1212 and his wife Beatrix de Sayle.
===Offices===
Henry was the first Earl of Hereford and constable of England through the hereditary right to the office from his great grandfather Miles ofGloucester.
On the accession of King John I he was created Earl of Hereford in 1199.
===1200 Summons to Scotland===
In 1200 he was sent with other nobles to summon his uncle, William theLion of Scotland to appear at Lincoln to do homage to King John of England.
===1200 Earl of Hereford===
The male line of Miles of Gloucester having failed, on the accession of King John of England, Bohun was created Earl of Hereford and Constable of England (1199).
He was Earl of Hereford and Hereditary Constable of England from 1199 to 1220.
"John bestowed the title earl of Hereford on Henry in 1200, albeit prohibiting him from staking any claim to the generous grants which HenryII had made in a charter to his ancestor Earl Roger of Hereford. His grandmother’s keen advocacy had been a factor in this success, but equally significant was the fact that his mother was a granddaughter ofDavid I, king of Scotland, and his uncle William the Lion, a later king of the same.
===Disputes and Claims===
Between 1204 and 1211 he was engaged in a lengthy dispute to establishhis claim to a part of his mother’s dower lands, the valuable lordship of Ryhall in Rutland.
No sooner had this dispute been settled than he found himself dragged into further litigation, countering a claim by King John’s half-brother, William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury, to his lordship of Trowbridge (Wilts.) on the pretext of descent from an earlier owner, Edward of Salisbury. This long drawn-out dispute was to lead to a sharp deterioration in his relations with King John.
Longespée initiated the action in1212 and Earl Henry responded by resort to the time-wasting tactics characteristic of the time, pleading illness as an excuse for absence from hearings. As such an excuse was inadmissible in this sort of case, the king took the lordship into his own hands, while allowing Longespée to levy scutage (money in lieu ofmilitary service) from its tenants.
===1215 Magna Carta Surety===
Henry de Bohun was one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta in 1215, and was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope.
"Henry de Bohun was a member of the Essex-based family grouping brought to the rebel cause by kinship with Geoffrey de Mandeville and RobertFitzWalter. His family also held important blocks of lands in the west of England."
In 1215 he joined the confederacy of the barons against the king, and his lands were seized by the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec 1215.
The sense of hurt which the earl felt was a major factor in his support for the rebels in 1215, as John’s seizure of the lordship constituted a disseisin made 'unjustly and without judgement', in the wording of clause 39 of the Charter. A further claim on his allegiance was made by the ties of kinship: his wife was Maud, daughter of Geoffrey FitzPeter and therefore aunt of Geoffrey de Mandeville. By virtue of his involvement on the rebel side in 1215 he secured the restoration of thelordship, although not of the castle, of Trowbridge. Letters orderingthe estate’s restitution to him were among the first to be issued in execution of the Charter. The dispute dragged on, however, and a final settlement was not reached until 1229, when Edward of Salisbury's honour was divided equally between the claimants, Trowbridge itself going to the Countess Ela, Longespée's widow.
In 1215 he joined the barons who obtained the concessions of the MagnaCharta and was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to insure its observance.
===1217 Battle of Lincoln and Prisoner===
He was also a supporter of King Louis VIII of France and was captured at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217.
"On the death of King John he remained loyal to the rebel cause and hewas taken prisoner with the other rebel leaders at the battle of Lincoln 20 May 1217."
===Death and burial===
He died on pilgrimage to the Holy Land on 1 June 1220, leaving a son and heir, Humphrey.
"Earl Henry was buried in the chapter house of Llanthony priory, near Gloucester, the traditional burial place of the Bohuns."
Henry de Bohun: (b.1176, d.June 1, 1220, buried Llanthony Abbey inGloucester).[Cokayne, G. (ed. by V. Gibbs). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. London:1887-1896, H-457-459 ]
Henry de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford, went on a crusade to the Holy Land in 1219, where he died June 1, 1220. He was buried with his son, Henry, in the chapter house of Llanthony Priory outside Gloucester.
===Trowbridge Legacy===
"Earl Henry was a notable figure in the development of modern Trowbridge, as it was he who secured the grant of a market and annual fair from the Crown in 1200. From this privilege flowed the laying out of the market place along the curved line of the castle ditch, the removal ofthe church from the castle’s inner bailey and the construction of the present church of St James in the heart of the town. It is likely that the earl's considerable investment in Trowbridge helps to explain his keenness to retain possession of the town in the face of William Longespée’s persistent claims."
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Henry Bohun joined with other barons and obtained the concession of Magna Charta. He was one of the twenty-five appointed to insure it's observance. He was the cousin of seven other Barons who were involved. FROM: SIR FRANCIS BRYAN by David C. McMurtry, Ed. D. ******* by Arabella Churchill, granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill KG In speech to 106 members and guests of the National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons who came from 25 states. "...Although the first version applied only to the rights of the Barons, the formal version of Magna Charta issued on 19 June 1215 had a minor but vital word change, replacing the term "any baron" with the term "any freeman" in stipulating to whom the provisions and freedoms applied. This word change, over time, helped justify the application of the Charter's provisions to a greater part of the population. While freemen were a minority in 13th Century England, the term would eventually include all English, just as "We, the People" has come to mean all Americans in the 20th and 21st centuries." To join: The National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons (USA) see: http://www.magnacharta.org/Default.htm ****** The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000. Bohun, Henry de, 1st earl of Hereford 1176-1220, English nobleman. Although King John granted him the marcher lordship of Hereford in 1199, Henry was one of the barons who forced the king to accept the Magna Carta in 1215 and one of those appointed to oversee its observance. He fought against the king in the ensuing civil war. He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The following is from: National Archives and Records Administration Magna Carta and Its American Legacy Before penning the Declaration of Independence--the first of the American Charters of Freedom--in 1776, the Founding Fathers searched for a historical precedent for asserting their rightful liberties from King George III and the English Parliament. They found it in a gathering that took place 561 y ears earlier on the plains of Runnymede, not far from where Windsor Castle stands today. There, on June 15, 1215, an assembly of barons confronted a despotic and cash-strapped King John and demanded that traditional rights be recognized, written down, confirmed with the royal seal, and sent to each of the counties to be read to all freemen. The result was Magna Carta--a momentous achievement for the English barons and, nearly six centuries later, an inspiration for angry American colonists. Magna Carta was the result of the Angevin king's disastrous foreign policy and overzealous financial administration. John had suffered a staggering blow the previous year, having lost an important battle to King Philip II at Bouvines and with it all hope of regaining the French lands he had inherited. When the defeated John returned from the Continent, he attempted to rebuild his coffers by demanding cutage (a fee paid in lieu of military service) from the barons who had not joined his war with Philip. The barons in question, predominantly lords of northern estates, protested, condemning John's policies and insisting on a reconfirmation of Henry I's Coronation Oath (1100), which would, in theory, limit the king's ability to obtain funds. (As even Henry ignored the provisions of this charter, however, a reconfirmation would not necessarily guarantee fewer taxes.) But John refused to withdraw his demands, and by spring most baronial families began to take sides. The rebelling barons soon faltered before John's superior resources, but with the unexpected capture of London, they earned a substantial bargaining chip. John agreed to grant a charter. National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons Magna Charta Baron Page for Henry De Bohun Earl of Hereford Barons at Runnymede Page http://www.magnacharta.org/Barons/baron_henry_de_bohun.htm WURTS’ MAGNA CHARTA provided a brief accounting of the feudal headquarters of some of the Magna Charta Barons. Some of the castles have been badly damaged. Some have disappeared entirely. Often we can learn of them through Medieval and Renaissance accounts, and some of them require the discerning eye of the archeologist. Others await the evidence brought out with a shovel and pick, by the trained archeological historian. A portion of the information concerning Surety Baron HENRY de BOHUN is as follows: HENRY de BOHUN, the Surety, was born before 1177. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was so created by the Charter of King John, dated 28 April 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King, on becoming Earl of Hereford he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs, on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office of Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. As he took a prominent part with the Barons against King John, his lands were confiscated, but he received them again at the granting of Magna Charta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220, and died on the passage 1 June 1220. His body was brought home and buried in the chapter house of Llanthony Abbey inGloucestershire. His wife, Maud FitzGeoffrey, was the daughter of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Baron de Mandeville, and his first wife, Beatrix Saye. The name of Bohun suggests Hereford. Unfortunately, Hereford Castle no longer exists. It was built in 1048, and apparently consisted of a moat and bailey. The mound has been leveled to the ground, but the bailey is outlined by high banks. One report has it that all that remains is a platform and a piec e of a ditch. The Castle was once situated near the present Bishop's Palace. It was seriously battered in an attack in 1055, but it was restored, and was again in use in 1067. The site which it now occupies is a public garden, gay with shrubbery and flowers. An ornamental lake indicates where once was the moat, but the outlines of the walls are shown only by grass covered ridges. Appreciation is expressed to Reed M. W. Wurts, one of the Heralds of the Society for furnishing the Baron’s Shield on this page. (see web page above) ***************************
=== Also known as the First Earl of Hereford ===
Also known as the First Earl of Hereford; Sheriff of Kent, hereditary Constable of England. Cause of death: On pilgrimage to the Holy Land in England. Henry DeBohun was the first Earl of Hereford; Sheriff of Kent and hereditary Constable of England. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was created by the Charter of King John, dated April 28, 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King on becoming Earl of Hereford, he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. Through his prominence with the Barons against the King, John's lands were confiscated but he received them again at the granting of Magna Charta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat, he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220 and died in passage June 1, 1220. His body was brought home and buied in the chapter-house of Llanthony Abbey in Gloucestershire. The name of Bohun suggests Hereford. Unfortunately, Hereford Castle no longer exists. The castle was built around 1048 and consisted of a moat and a bailey. The mound has been leveled to the ground while the bailey has been outlined by high banks. One report has it that all that remains is a platform and a piece of a ditch. The Castle was once situated near the present Bishop's Palace. During an attack in 1055 the Castle was seriously battered but restored and put back in use in 1067. The site which it now occupies is a public garden, gay with shrubbery and flowers. An ornamental lake indicates where the moat once was, but the walls are only shown by grass covered ridges.[Bohun Family Tree.FTW] Also known as the First Earl of Hereford; Sheriff of Kent, hereditary Constable of England. Cause of death: On pilgrimage to the Holy Land in England. Henry DeBohun was the first Earl of Hereford; Sheriff of Kent and hereditary Constable of England. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was created by the Charter of King John, dated April 28, 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King on becoming Earl of Hereford, he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. Through his prominence with the Barons against the King, John's lands were confiscated but he received them again at the granting of Magna Charta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat, he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220 and died in passage June 1, 1220. His body was brought home and buied in the chapter-house of Llanthony Abbey in Gloucestershire. The name of Bohun suggests Hereford. Unfortunately, Hereford Castle no longer exists. The castle was built around 1048 and consisted of a moat and a bailey. The mound has been leveled to the ground while the bailey has been outlined by high banks. One report has it that all that remains is a platform and a piece of a ditch. The Castle was once situated near the present Bishop's Palace. During an attack in 1055 the Castle was seriously battered but restored and put b ack in use in 1067. The site which it now occupies is a public garden, gay with shrubbery and flowers. An ornamental lake indicates where the moat once was, but the walls are only shown by grass covered ridges.
=== Wikipedia - ===
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Henry IV de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176 - 1 June 1220) of Pleshy Castle in Essex, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who became Hereditary Constable of England from 1199.
Origins
He was the son and heir of Humphrey III de Bohun (pre-1144-1181) of Trowbridge Castle in Wiltshire and of Caldicot Castle in south-east Wales, 5th feudal baron of Trowbridge, who served King Henry II as Lord High Constable of England. His mother was Margaret of Huntingdon, widow of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (d.1171) and a daughter of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, son of King David I of Scotland by his wife Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon. Henry's half-sister was Constance, Duchess of Brittany.
Earldom
His paternal grandmother was Margaret of Hereford, a daughter of Miles FitzWalter of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, Lord of Brecknock (died 1143), Sheriff of Gloucester and Constable of England. After the male line of Miles of Gloucester failed, in 1199 King John created Henry de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Constable of England. His lands lay chiefly on the Welsh Marches, and from this date the Bohuns took a foremost place among the Marcher barons.
Henry de Bohun was one of the twenty-five barons elected by their peers to enforce the terms of Magna Carta in 1215. He was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope. In the civil war that followed Magna Carta, he was a supporter of King Louis VIII of France and was captured at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217.
Marriage and issue
He married Maud de Mandeville (alias Maud FitzGeoffrey), daughter and heiress of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, of Pleshy Castle in Essex, by whom he had issue including:
1. Humphrey IV de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, 1st Earl of Essex (1204-1275), eldest son and heir, created Earl of Essex in 1239, who married Maud de Lusignan, by whom he had at least three children.
2. Henry de Bohun, who died young.
3. Ralph de Bohun.
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Father Sir Humphrey IV de Bohun, Constable of England7,8 b. c 1144, d. 1182
Mother Margaret, Princess of Scotland7,8 b. c 1145, d. 1201
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent was born circa 1175 at of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England; Age 10 in 1185.2,4 He married Maud de Mandeville, daughter of Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers, 4th Earl of Essex, Chief Justiciar of England, Constable of the Tower of London, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Westmorland, Hampshire, & Shropshire and Beatrice de Say, circa 1192;
They had 2 sons (Sir Humphrey, Earl of Hereford & Essex; & Henry).2,3,4,5,6
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent died on 1 June 1220 at Holy Land; Buried with his son (Henry) in the Chapter House of Llanthony Priory, Gloucester, Gloucestershire.2,4
Family
Maud de Mandeville b. 1178, d. 27 Aug 1236
Children
Sir Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford, 7th Earl of Essex, Sheriff of Kent, Constable of the Exchequer, England, & Dover Castle+9,2,3,4 b. c 1200, d. 24 Sep 1275
Sir Henry de Bohun, Rector of Farley4 b. a 1220
Henry de Bohun, who in reality was the 1st Earl of Hereford of this family, being so created by charter of King John, dated 28 April, 1199, but the constableship he inherited from his father. His lordship, taking part with the barons against King John, had his lands sequestered, but they were restored at the signing of Magna Carta, at Runnymede, the earl being one of the twenty-five lords appointed there to enforce the observance of the celebrated charters. His lordship was subsequently excommunicated by the pope and he became a prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in the 1st year of Henry III [1216-17]. He m. Maud, dau. of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex, and eventually heiress of her brother, William de Mandeville, last Earl of Essex of that family, by whom he acquired the honour of Essex and other extensive lordships, ---and had issue, Henry, d. young, Humphrey, and Ralph, and a dau. Margery, who m. Waleran, Earl of Warwick. His lordship d. 1 January 1220 and was s. by his son, Humphrey de Bohun. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57, Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, and High Constables of England]
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Henry de Bohun, Magna Charta Surety 1215, son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and Margaret de Huntingdon, born 1176, died 1 Jun 1220, sheriff of Kent, 1st Earl of Hereford 1200-1290, hereditary Constable of England; married Maud Fitz Geoffrey, died 1236, Countess of Essex, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, died 1213, Earl of Essex, and Beatrix de Say, daughter of William de Say. [Magna Charta Sureties]
Note: It is not my error in typing (but probably MCS's); Henry appears to have been Earl of Hereford until 1290, which was 70 years after his death!
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HENRY de BOHUN, the Surety, was born before 1177. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was so created by the Charter of King John, dated 28 April 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King, on becoming Earl of Hereford he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs, on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office of Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. As he took a prominent part with the Barons against King John, his lands were confiscated, but he received them again at the granting of Magna Charta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220, and died on the passage 1 June 1220. His body was brought home and buried in the chapter-house of Llanthony Abbey in Gloucestershire.
His wife, Maud FitzGeoffrey, was the daughter of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Baron de Mandeville, and his first wife, Beatrix Saye.
The name of Bohun suggests Hereford. Unfortunately, Hereford Castle no longer exists. It was built in 1048, and apparently consisted of a moat and bailey. The mound has been leveled to the ground, but the bailey is outlined by high banks. One report has it that all that remains is a platform and a piece of a ditch.
The Castle was once sitmacted near the present Bishop's Palace. It was seriously battered in an attack in 1055, but it was restored, and was again in use in 1067. The site which it now occupies is a public garden, gay with shrubbery and flowers. An ornamental lake indicates where once was the moat, but the outlines of the walls are shown only by grass covered ridges. [National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons; www.magnacharta. org]
!(1) Created Earl of Hereford 1199 (2) Ob. 1220 (3) Pedigree in Visitation of Cornwall, Vivian ed., 1887, p.105 (4) Henry de Bohun: (b.1176, d.June 1, 1220, buried Llanthony Abbey in Gloucester). He married Maud Fitz Piers, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, Earl of Essex (d.1212 and his wife Beatrix de Sayle. Henry was the first Earl of Hereford and constable of England through the hereditary right to the office from his great grandfather Miles of Gloucester. On the accession of King John I he was created Earl of Hereford in 1199. In 1200 he was sent with other nobles to summon his uncle, William the Lion of Scotland to appear at Lincoln to do homage to King John of England. In 1215 he joined the barons who obtained the concessions of the Magna Charta and was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to insure its observance. On John's death he still adhered to the party who wanted to make Louis of France King of England and was taken prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in 1217. He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and was succeeded by his son Humphrey.--Adec,FHL 929.273,C769w
r.HENRY DE BOHUN, b. 1778, d. on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1 Jun. 1220, Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford, 1200. Hereditary Constable of England; Magna Charta Surety, 1215; m. Maud Fitz Geoffrey de Mandeville, d. 27 Aug. 1236, Countess of Essex, dau. of Geoffrey Fitz Piers (see also 246B-27), d. 1213, 4th Earl of Essex, and his (1) wife Beatrice de Say, dau. of William de Say. [Weis "60 Colonists", line 97-27.] b.Henry de Bohun, Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford 1200, Hereditary Constable of England was a Magna Charta Surety, 1215. He died on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 1 June 1220.
Henry de Bohun, Surety for the Magna Charta, was in reality the first Earl of Hereford of this family, being so created by charter of King John dated April 28, 1199, but the Constableship he inherited from his father. His lordship, taking part with the barons against King John, had his land sequestered, but it was restored to him at the signing of the Magna Charta at Runnemede, the earl being one of the 25 lords appointed there to enforce the observance of the celebrated charters. His lordship was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope, and he became a prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln, 1st of Henry III, 1216. He married Maud, daughter of Geoffrey Fitzpiers. The Complete Peerage vol.V,p134.
Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford. In 1200 was Hereditary Constable of England.harta Sur ety, 1215. Died on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Henry de Bohun, Magna Charta S
=== He played an important role in the revo ===
He played an important role in the revolt of the barons against King John. The reign of King John started out well for Henry when he was created earl of Hereford. He was the first of the Bohons to have the title, and this included an annual income. In 1203 Henry witnessed a document where King John confirmed the dowry of Queen Isabelle. The principal interests of the Bohon were in England. Henry paid taxes of 50 marks and a groom, corresponding to 20 parts of the Knight's fee, on the Huntington land he inherited from his mother. In Normandy, he kept his more modest holding. After the first time France reclaimed Normandy, he stayed loyal to John. His lands in Normandy were confiscated by Philip. King John imposed a heavy tax to maintain his campaign to prevent a coalition formed at Bouvines in 1214 by England, Flanders, and the German Empire. This discredited the king led to a rovolt of the barons which Henry participated in. The revolt ended with the signing of the Magna Carta. The lands that were confiscated from Henry were returned and the 25 lords took it upon themselves to make sure the charter was enforced. the Bohns enjoyed being in possession of great lands at the frontier of the Welsh country and these were always threatened. John had Pope Innocent III excommunicate the Earl of Hereford which only increased opposition to the King. When John died Henry did not ally himself with the new King, Henry III. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln on May 20, 1217. Henry gave the churches of Boxe and Wilsford to the priory of Monkton Farley and a pension to St. Nicolas Hospital. When he died on pilgrimage to the Holy Land his body was returned to Lanthony Abbey.
=== Nickname: Surety Magna Carta Name ===
Nickname: Surety Magna Carta Name Prefix: Earl Name Suffix:Of Hereford
=== He was Sheriff of Kent and hereditary Co ===
He was Sheriff of Kent and hereditary Constable of England, 1200-1220. Ref: Magna Carta, by Weis, p. 23, line 18.
=== Surety of the Magna Charta. ===
Surety of the Magna Charta.
=== !(1) Created Earl of Hereford 1199 (2) ===
!(1) Created Earl of Hereford 1199 (2) Ob. 1220 (3) Pedigree in Visitation of Cornwall, Vivian ed., 1887, p.105 (4) Henry de Bohun: (b.1176, d.June 1, 1220, buried Llanthony Abbey in Gloucester). He married Maud Fitz Piers, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, Earl of Essex (d.1212 and his wife Beatrix de Sayle. Henry was the first Earl of Hereford and constable of England through the hereditary right to the office from his great grandfather Miles of Gloucester. On the accession of King John I he was created Earl of Hereford in 1199. In 1200 he was sent with other nobles to summon his uncle, William the Lion of Scotland to appear at Lincoln to do homage to King John of England. In 1215 he joined the barons who obtained the concessions of the Magna Charta and was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to insure its observance. On John's death he still adhered to the party who wanted to make Louis of France King of England and was taken prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in 1217. He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and was succeeded by his son Humphrey.--Adec,FHL 929.273,C769w
=== He served as Sheriff of Kent. He was on ===
He served as Sheriff of Kent. He was one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta and was excommunicated by the Pope. He was one of the most important, wealth & independednt of the Welsh Marsher Lords. He was instrumental in the Baronial rebellion against King John. He sided with Prince Louis when Louis tried to seize the English throne and was taken prisoner in the Battle of Lincoln where Prince Louis was defeated.
=== The Surety of the Magna Charta ===
The Surety of the Magna Charta
=== r.HENRY DE BOHUN, b. 1778, d. on a Pilgr ===
r.HENRY DE BOHUN, b. 1778, d. on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1 Jun. 1220, Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford, 1200. Hereditary Constable of England; Magna Charta Surety, 1215; m. Maud Fitz Geoffrey de Mandeville, d. 27 Aug. 1236, Countess of Essex, dau. of Geoffrey Fitz Piers (see also 246B-27), d. 1213, 4th Earl of Essex, and his (1) wife Beatrice de Say, dau. of William de Say. [Weis "60 Colonists", line 97-27.] b.Henry de Bohun, Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford 1200, Hereditary Constable of England was a Magna Charta Surety, 1215. He died on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 1 June 1220.
=== Henry de Bohun, Surety for the Magna Ch ===
Henry de Bohun, Surety for the Magna Charta, was in reality the first Earl of Hereford of this family, being so created by charter of King John dated April 28, 1199, but the Constableship he inherited from his father. His lordship, taking part with the barons against King John, had his land sequestered, but it was restored to him at the signing of the Magna Charta at Runnemede, the earl being one of the 25 lords appointed there to enforce the observance of the celebrated charters. His lordship was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope, and he became a prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln, 1st of Henry III, 1216. He married Maud, daughter of Geoffrey Fitzpiers. The Complete Peerage vol.V,p134.
=== Life Sketch ===
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Henry IV de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176 – 1 June 1220) of Pleshy Castle in Essex, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who became Hereditary Constable of England from 1199.
Origins
He was the son and heir of Humphrey III de Bohun (pre-1144-1181) of Trowbridge Castle in Wiltshire and of Caldicot Castle in south-east Wales, 5th feudal baron of Trowbridge, who served King Henry II as Lord High Constable of England. His mother was Margaret of Huntingdon, widow of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (d.1171) and a daughter of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, son of King David I of Scotland by his wife Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon. Henry's half-sister was Constance, Duchess of Brittany.
Earldom
His paternal grandmother was Margaret of Hereford, a daughter of Miles FitzWalter of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, Lord of Brecknock (died 1143), Sheriff of Gloucester and Constable of England. After the male line of Miles of Gloucester failed, in 1199 King John created Henry de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Constable of England. His lands lay chiefly on the Welsh Marches, and from this date the Bohuns took a foremost place among the Marcher barons.
Henry de Bohun was one of the twenty-five barons elected by their peers to enforce the terms of Magna Carta in 1215. He was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope. In the civil war that followed Magna Carta, he was a supporter of King Louis VIII of France and was captured at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217.
Marriage and issue
He married Maud de Mandeville (alias Maud FitzGeoffrey), daughter and heiress of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, of Pleshy Castle in Essex, by whom he had issue including:
1. Humphrey IV de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, 1st Earl of Essex (1204-1275), eldest son and heir, created Earl of Essex in 1239, who married Maud de Lusignan, by whom he had at least three children.
2. Henry de Bohun, who died young.
3. Ralph de Bohun.
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Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent1,2,3,4,5,6
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Father Sir Humphrey IV de Bohun, Constable of England7,8 b. c 1144, d. 1182
Mother Margaret, Princess of Scotland7,8 b. c 1145, d. 1201
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent was born circa 1175 at of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England; Age 10 in 1185.2,4 He married Maud de Mandeville, daughter of Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers, 4th Earl of Essex, Chief Justiciar of England, Constable of the Tower of London, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Westmorland, Hampshire, & Shropshire and Beatrice de Say, circa 1192;
They had 2 sons (Sir Humphrey, Earl of Hereford & Essex; & Henry).2,3,4,5,6
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent died on 1 June 1220 at Holy Land; Buried with his son (Henry) in the Chapter House of Llanthony Priory, Gloucester, Gloucestershire.2,4
Family
Maud de Mandeville b. 1178, d. 27 Aug 1236
Children
Sir Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford, 7th Earl of Essex, Sheriff of Kent, Constable of the Exchequer, England, & Dover Castle+9,2,3,4 b. c 1200, d. 24 Sep 1275
Sir Henry de Bohun, Rector of Farley4 b. a 1220
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== Biography ==
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| image = Bohun-80.png}}Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176 - 1220) was an English Norman nobleman and a Magna Carta surety.[Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_Bohun,_1st_Earl_of_Hereford Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford] (accessed June 14, 2015)]
===Birth and Parentage===
Henry de Bohun, son and heir, was born about 1175 (aged 10 in 1185). In 1185 he was a minor in the custody of his widowed grandmother, Margaret de Bohun.
Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol I, pp 406-410
"Henry (c. 1175–1220) was the son of Humphrey de Bohun (d. 1181) andMargaret (d. 1201), daughter of Henry, earl of Northumberland, and widow of Conan IV, duke of Brittany. His grandmother was Margaret de Bohun, the daughter of Miles of Gloucester, earl of Hereford, one of the earliest and most consistent supporters of the Empress Matilda in the civil war of King Stephen’s reign. Margaret brought to the de Bohunsher family’s claims to the royal constableship and to the earldom of Hereford. The constable’s office had been granted to her son – Henry’s father – by 1174 and was therefore inherited by Henry himself, who used the style ‘Henry the Constable’ in a number of his early charters. Despite his youth he occasionally attested charters of Richard I and was one of the king’s sureties in negotiations with thecount of Flanders in 1197.
Text from the article,"[http://magnacarta800th.com/schools/biographies/the-25-barons-of-magna-carta/henry-de-bohun/ Henry de Bohun]," courtesy of Professor NigelSaul and the [http://magnacarta800th.com/ Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee]
Henry was the son of Humphrey III de Bohun and Margaret of Huntingdon,Princess of Scotland, daughter of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, a son of David I of Scotland.
===Hereditary Titles===
Henry is referred to as 1st Earl of Hereford by many sources includingWikipedia.[ Adec, Family History Library 929.273,C769w] He is referred to as the 5th Earl of Hereford by Richardson.
In fact, the title "Earl of Hereford" was created and dissolved a number of times[Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Hereford Earl of Hereford]] The title was created three times and hadthree incumbents prior to the Norman Conquest, the last of whom, EarlHarold Godwinson became King Harold II, defeated by William the Conqueror. The title was created three times following the Norman Conquest. Henry is the first Earl in the 6th Creation, the 5th earl of Hereford since the Norman Conquest, and the 8th earl of Hereford in all.
Henry also inherited the title Constable of England.
=== 1197 Marriage ===
He married Maud de Mandeville of Essex, daughter of Geoffrey Fitzpeter, 1st Earl of Essex.
He married Maud Fitz Piers, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, Earl of Essex (d.1212 and his wife Beatrix de Sayle.
===Offices===
Henry was the first Earl of Hereford and constable of England through the hereditary right to the office from his great grandfather Miles ofGloucester.
On the accession of King John I he was created Earl of Hereford in 1199.
===1200 Summons to Scotland===
In 1200 he was sent with other nobles to summon his uncle, William theLion of Scotland to appear at Lincoln to do homage to King John of England.
===1200 Earl of Hereford===
The male line of Miles of Gloucester having failed, on the accession of King John of England, Bohun was created Earl of Hereford and Constable of England (1199).
He was Earl of Hereford and Hereditary Constable of England from 1199 to 1220.
"John bestowed the title earl of Hereford on Henry in 1200, albeit prohibiting him from staking any claim to the generous grants which HenryII had made in a charter to his ancestor Earl Roger of Hereford. His grandmother’s keen advocacy had been a factor in this success, but equally significant was the fact that his mother was a granddaughter ofDavid I, king of Scotland, and his uncle William the Lion, a later king of the same.
===Disputes and Claims===
Between 1204 and 1211 he was engaged in a lengthy dispute to establishhis claim to a part of his mother’s dower lands, the valuable lordship of Ryhall in Rutland.
No sooner had this dispute been settled than he found himself dragged into further litigation, countering a claim by King John’s half-brother, William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury, to his lordship of Trowbridge (Wilts.) on the pretext of descent from an earlier owner, Edward of Salisbury. This long drawn-out dispute was to lead to a sharp deterioration in his relations with King John.
Longespée initiated the action in1212 and Earl Henry responded by resort to the time-wasting tactics characteristic of the time, pleading illness as an excuse for absence from hearings. As such an excuse was inadmissible in this sort of case, the king took the lordship into his own hands, while allowing Longespée to levy scutage (money in lieu ofmilitary service) from its tenants.
===1215 Magna Carta Surety===
Henry de Bohun was one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta in 1215, and was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope.
"Henry de Bohun was a member of the Essex-based family grouping brought to the rebel cause by kinship with Geoffrey de Mandeville and RobertFitzWalter. His family also held important blocks of lands in the west of England."
In 1215 he joined the confederacy of the barons against the king, and his lands were seized by the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec 1215.
The sense of hurt which the earl felt was a major factor in his support for the rebels in 1215, as John’s seizure of the lordship constituted a disseisin made 'unjustly and without judgement', in the wording of clause 39 of the Charter. A further claim on his allegiance was made by the ties of kinship: his wife was Maud, daughter of Geoffrey FitzPeter and therefore aunt of Geoffrey de Mandeville. By virtue of his involvement on the rebel side in 1215 he secured the restoration of thelordship, although not of the castle, of Trowbridge. Letters orderingthe estate’s restitution to him were among the first to be issued in execution of the Charter. The dispute dragged on, however, and a final settlement was not reached until 1229, when Edward of Salisbury's honour was divided equally between the claimants, Trowbridge itself going to the Countess Ela, Longespée's widow.
In 1215 he joined the barons who obtained the concessions of the MagnaCharta and was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to insure its observance.
===1217 Battle of Lincoln and Prisoner===
He was also a supporter of King Louis VIII of France and was captured at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217.
"On the death of King John he remained loyal to the rebel cause and hewas taken prisoner with the other rebel leaders at the battle of Lincoln 20 May 1217."
===Death and burial===
He died on pilgrimage to the Holy Land on 1 June 1220, leaving a son and heir, Humphrey.
"Earl Henry was buried in the chapter house of Llanthony priory, near Gloucester, the traditional burial place of the Bohuns."
Henry de Bohun: (b.1176, d.June 1, 1220, buried Llanthony Abbey inGloucester).[Cokayne, G. (ed. by V. Gibbs). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. London:1887-1896, H-457-459 ]
Henry de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford, went on a crusade to the Holy Land in 1219, where he died June 1, 1220. He was buried with his son, Henry, in the chapter house of Llanthony Priory outside Gloucester.
===Trowbridge Legacy===
"Earl Henry was a notable figure in the development of modern Trowbridge, as it was he who secured the grant of a market and annual fair from the Crown in 1200. From this privilege flowed the laying out of the market place along the curved line of the castle ditch, the removal ofthe church from the castle’s inner bailey and the construction of the present church of St James in the heart of the town. It is likely that the earl's considerable investment in Trowbridge helps to explain his keenness to retain possession of the town in the face of William Longespée’s persistent claims."
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Henry IV de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176 – 1 June 1220) of Pleshy Castle in Essex, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who became Hereditary Constable of England from 1199.
Origins
He was the son and heir of Humphrey III de Bohun (pre-1144-1181) of Trowbridge Castle in Wiltshire and of Caldicot Castle in south-east Wales, 5th feudal baron of Trowbridge, who served King Henry II as Lord High Constable of England. His mother was Margaret of Huntingdon, widow of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (d.1171) and a daughter of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, son of King David I of Scotland by his wife Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon. Henry's half-sister was Constance, Duchess of Brittany.
Earldom
His paternal grandmother was Margaret of Hereford, a daughter of Miles FitzWalter of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, Lord of Brecknock (died 1143), Sheriff of Gloucester and Constable of England. After the male line of Miles of Gloucester failed, in 1199 King John created Henry de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Constable of England. His lands lay chiefly on the Welsh Marches, and from this date the Bohuns took a foremost place among the Marcher barons.
Henry de Bohun was one of the twenty-five barons elected by their peers to enforce the terms of Magna Carta in 1215. He was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope. In the civil war that followed Magna Carta, he was a supporter of King Louis VIII of France and was captured at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217.
Marriage and issue
He married Maud de Mandeville (alias Maud FitzGeoffrey), daughter and heiress of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, of Pleshy Castle in Essex, by whom he had issue including:
1. Humphrey IV de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, 1st Earl of Essex (1204-1275), eldest son and heir, created Earl of Essex in 1239, who married Maud de Lusignan, by whom he had at least three children.
2. Henry de Bohun, who died young.
3. Ralph de Bohun.
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Father Sir Humphrey IV de Bohun, Constable of England7,8 b. c 1144, d. 1182
Mother Margaret, Princess of Scotland7,8 b. c 1145, d. 1201
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent was born circa 1175 at of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England; Age 10 in 1185.2,4 He married Maud de Mandeville, daughter of Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers, 4th Earl of Essex, Chief Justiciar of England, Constable of the Tower of London, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Westmorland, Hampshire, & Shropshire and Beatrice de Say, circa 1192;
They had 2 sons (Sir Humphrey, Earl of Hereford & Essex; & Henry).2,3,4,5,6
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent died on 1 June 1220 at Holy Land; Buried with his son (Henry) in the Chapter House of Llanthony Priory, Gloucester, Gloucestershire.2,4
Family
Maud de Mandeville b. 1178, d. 27 Aug 1236
Children
Sir Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford, 7th Earl of Essex, Sheriff of Kent, Constable of the Exchequer, England, & Dover Castle+9,2,3,4 b. c 1200, d. 24 Sep 1275
Sir Henry de Bohun, Rector of Farley4 b. a 1220
Henry de Bohun, who in reality was the 1st Earl of Hereford of this family, being so created by charter of King John, dated 28 April, 1199, but the constableship he inherited from his father. His lordship, taking part with the barons against King John, had his lands sequestered, but they were restored at the signing of Magna Carta, at Runnymede, the earl being one of the twenty-five lords appointed there to enforce the observance of the celebrated charters. His lordship was subsequently excommunicated by the pope and he became a prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in the 1st year of Henry III [1216-17]. He m. Maud, dau. of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex, and eventually heiress of her brother, William de Mandeville, last Earl of Essex of that family, by whom he acquired the honour of Essex and other extensive lordships, ---and had issue, Henry, d. young, Humphrey, and Ralph, and a dau. Margery, who m. Waleran, Earl of Warwick. His lordship d. 1 January 1220 and was s. by his son, Humphrey de Bohun. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57, Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, and High Constables of England]
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Henry de Bohun, Magna Charta Surety 1215, son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and Margaret de Huntingdon, born 1176, died 1 Jun 1220, sheriff of Kent, 1st Earl of Hereford 1200-1290, hereditary Constable of England; married Maud Fitz Geoffrey, died 1236, Countess of Essex, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, died 1213, Earl of Essex, and Beatrix de Say, daughter of William de Say. [Magna Charta Sureties]
Note: It is not my error in typing (but probably MCS's); Henry appears to have been Earl of Hereford until 1290, which was 70 years after his death!
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HENRY de BOHUN, the Surety, was born before 1177. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was so created by the Charter of King John, dated 28 April 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King, on becoming Earl of Hereford he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs, on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office of Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. As he took a prominent part with the Barons against King John, his lands were confiscated, but he received them again at the granting of Magna Charta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220, and died on the passage 1 June 1220. His body was brought home and buried in the chapter-house of Llanthony Abbey in Gloucestershire.
His wife, Maud FitzGeoffrey, was the daughter of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Baron de Mandeville, and his first wife, Beatrix Saye.
The name of Bohun suggests Hereford. Unfortunately, Hereford Castle no longer exists. It was built in 1048, and apparently consisted of a moat and bailey. The mound has been leveled to the ground, but the bailey is outlined by high banks. One report has it that all that remains is a platform and a piece of a ditch.
The Castle was once sitmacted near the present Bishop's Palace. It was seriously battered in an attack in 1055, but it was restored, and was again in use in 1067. The site which it now occupies is a public garden, gay with shrubbery and flowers. An ornamental lake indicates where once was the moat, but the outlines of the walls are shown only by grass covered ridges. [National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons; www.magnacharta. org]
!(1) Created Earl of Hereford 1199 (2) Ob. 1220 (3) Pedigree in Visitation of Cornwall, Vivian ed., 1887, p.105 (4) Henry de Bohun: (b.1176, d.June 1, 1220, buried Llanthony Abbey in Gloucester). He married Maud Fitz Piers, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, Earl of Essex (d.1212 and his wife Beatrix de Sayle. Henry was the first Earl of Hereford and constable of England through the hereditary right to the office from his great grandfather Miles of Gloucester. On the accession of King John I he was created Earl of Hereford in 1199. In 1200 he was sent with other nobles to summon his uncle, William the Lion of Scotland to appear at Lincoln to do homage to King John of England. In 1215 he joined the barons who obtained the concessions of the Magna Charta and was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to insure its observance. On John's death he still adhered to the party who wanted to make Louis of France King of England and was taken prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in 1217. He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and was succeeded by his son Humphrey.--Adec,FHL 929.273,C769w
r.HENRY DE BOHUN, b. 1778, d. on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1 Jun. 1220, Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford, 1200. Hereditary Constable of England; Magna Charta Surety, 1215; m. Maud Fitz Geoffrey de Mandeville, d. 27 Aug. 1236, Countess of Essex, dau. of Geoffrey Fitz Piers (see also 246B-27), d. 1213, 4th Earl of Essex, and his (1) wife Beatrice de Say, dau. of William de Say. [Weis "60 Colonists", line 97-27.] b.Henry de Bohun, Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford 1200, Hereditary Constable of England was a Magna Charta Surety, 1215. He died on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 1 June 1220.
Henry de Bohun, Surety for the Magna Charta, was in reality the first Earl of Hereford of this family, being so created by charter of King John dated April 28, 1199, but the Constableship he inherited from his father. His lordship, taking part with the barons against King John, had his land sequestered, but it was restored to him at the signing of the Magna Charta at Runnemede, the earl being one of the 25 lords appointed there to enforce the observance of the celebrated charters. His lordship was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope, and he became a prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln, 1st of Henry III, 1216. He married Maud, daughter of Geoffrey Fitzpiers. The Complete Peerage vol.V,p134.
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=== Magna Carta ===
Surety of the Magna Carta
=== Earl of Hereford. A "Magna Charta Baron" ===
Earl of Hereford. A "Magna Charta Baron".
=== Henry de Bohun, who in reality was the 1 ===
Henry de Bohun, who in reality was the 1st Earl of Hereford of this family, being so created by charter of King John, dated 28 April, 1199, but the constableship he inherited from his father. His lordship, taking part with the barons against King John, had his lands sequestered, but they were restored at the signing of Magna Carta, at Runnymede, the earl being one of the twenty-five lords appointed there to enforce the observance of the celebrated charters. His lordship was subsequently excommunicated by the pope and he became a prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in the 1st year of Henry III [1216-17]. He m. Maud, dau. of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex, and eventually heiress of her brother, William de Mandeville, last Earl of Essex of that family, by whom he acquired the honour of Essex and other extensive lordships, ---and had issue, Henry, d. young, Humphrey, and Ralph, and a dau. Margery, who m. Waleran, Earl of Warwick. His lordship d. 1 January 1220 and was s. by his son, Humphrey de Bohun. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57, Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, and High Constables of England]
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Henry de Bohun, Magna Charta Surety 1215, son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and Margaret de Huntingdon, born 1176, died 1 Jun 1220, sheriff of Kent, 1st Earl of Hereford 1200-1290, hereditary Constable of England; married Maud Fitz Geoffrey, died 1236, Countess of Essex, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, died 1213, Earl of Essex, and Beatrix de Say, daughter of William de Say. [Magna Charta Sureties]
Note: It is not my error in typing (but probably MCS's); Henry appears to have been Earl of Hereford until 1290, which was 70 years after his death!
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HENRY de BOHUN, the Surety, was born before 1177. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was so created by the Charter of King John, dated 28 April 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King, on becoming Earl of Hereford he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs, on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office of Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. As he took a prominent part with the Barons against King John, his lands were confiscated, but he received them again at the granting of Magna Charta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220, and died on the passage 1 June 1220. His body was brought home and buried in the chapter-house of Llanthony Abbey in Gloucestershire.
His wife, Maud FitzGeoffrey, was the daughter of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Baron de Mandeville, and his first wife, Beatrix Saye.
The name of Bohun suggests Hereford. Unfortunately, Hereford Castle no longer exists. It was built in 1048, and apparently consisted of a moat and bailey. The mound has been leveled to the ground, but the bailey is outlined by high banks. One report has it that all that remains is a platform and a piece of a ditch.
The Castle was once sitmacted near the present Bishop's Palace. It was seriously battered in an attack in 1055, but it was restored, and was again in use in 1067. The site which it now occupies is a public garden, gay with shrubbery and flowers. An ornamental lake indicates where once was the moat, but the outlines of the walls are shown only by grass covered ridges. [National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons; www.magnacharta. org]
=== !(1) Created Earl of Hereford 1199 (2) ===
!(1) Created Earl of Hereford 1199 (2) Ob. 1220 (3) Pedigree in Visitation of Cornwall, Vivian ed., 1887, p.105 (4) Henry de Bohun: (b.1176, d.June 1, 1220, buried Llanthony Abbey in Gloucester). He married Maud Fitz Piers, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, Earl of Essex (d.1212 and his wife Beatrix de Sayle. Henry was the first Earl of Hereford and constable of England through the hereditary right to the office from his great grandfather Miles of Gloucester. On the accession of King John I he was created Earl of Hereford in 1199. In 1200 he was sent with other nobles to summon his uncle, William the Lion of Scotland to appear at Lincoln to do homage to King John of England. In 1215 he joined the barons who obtained the concessions of the Magna Charta and was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to insure its observance. On John's death he still adhered to the party who wanted to make Louis of France King of England and was taken prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in 1217. He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and was succeeded by his son Humphrey.--Adec,FHL 929.273,C769w
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He played an important role in the revolt of the barons against King John. The reign of King John started out well for Henry when he was created earl of Hereford. He was the first of the Bohons to have the title, and this included an annual income. In 1203 Henry witnessed a document where King John confirmed the dowry of Queen Isabelle. The principal interests of the Bohon were in England. Henry paid taxes of 50 marks and a groom, corresponding to 20 parts of the Knight's fee, on the Huntington land he inherited from his mother. In Normandy, he kept his more modest holding. After the first time France reclaimed Normandy, he stayed loyal to John. His lands in Normandy were confiscated by Philip. King John imposed a heavy tax to maintain his campaign to prevent a coalition formed at Bouvines in 1214 by England, Flanders, and the German Empire. This discredited the king led to a rovolt of the barons which Henry participated in. The revolt ended with the signing of the Magna Carta. The lands that were confiscated from Henry were returned and the 25 lords took it upon themselves to make sure the charter was enforced. the Bohns enjoyed being in possession of great lands at the frontier of the Welsh country and these were always threatened. John had Pope Innocent III excommunicate the Earl of Hereford which only increased opposition to the King. When John died Henry did not ally himself with the new King, Henry III. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln on May 20, 1217. Henry gave the churches of Boxe and Wilsford to the priory of Monkton Farley and a pension to St. Nicolas Hospital. When he died on pilgrimage to the Holy Land his body was returned to Lanthony Abbey.
=== The Surety of the Magna Charta ===
The Surety of the Magna Charta
=== Also known as the First Earl of Hereford ===
Also known as the First Earl of Hereford; Sheriff of Kent, hereditary Constable of England. Cause of death: On pilgrimage to the Holy Land in England. Henry DeBohun was the first Earl of Hereford; Sheriff of Kent and hereditary Constable of England. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was created by the Charter of King John, dated April 28, 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King on becoming Earl of Hereford, he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. Through his prominence with the Barons against the King, John's lands were confiscated but he received them again at the granting of Magna Charta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat, he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220 and died in passage June 1, 1220. His body was brought home and buied in the chapter-house of Llanthony Abbey in Gloucestershire. The name of Bohun suggests Hereford. Unfortunately, Hereford Castle no longer exists. The castle was built around 1048 and consisted of a moat and a bailey. The mound has been leveled to the ground while the bailey has been outlined by high banks. One report has it that all that remains is a platform and a piece of a ditch. The Castle was once situated near the present Bishop's Palace. During an attack in 1055 the Castle was seriously battered but restored and put back in use in 1067. The site which it now occupies is a public garden, gay with shrubbery and flowers. An ornamental lake indicates where the moat once was, but the walls are only shown by grass covered ridges.[Bohun Family Tree.FTW] Also known as the First Earl of Hereford; Sheriff of Kent, hereditary Constable of England. Cause of death: On pilgrimage to the Holy Land in England. Henry DeBohun was the first Earl of Hereford; Sheriff of Kent and hereditary Constable of England. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was created by the Charter of King John, dated April 28, 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King on becoming Earl of Hereford, he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. Through his prominence with the Barons against the King, John's lands were confiscated but he received them again at the granting of Magna Charta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat, he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220 and died in passage June 1, 1220. His body was brought home and buied in the chapter-house of Llanthony Abbey in Gloucestershire. The name of Bohun suggests Hereford. Unfortunately, Hereford Castle no longer exists. The castle was built around 1048 and consisted of a moat and a bailey. The mound has been leveled to the ground while the bailey has been outlined by high banks. One report has it that all that remains is a platform and a piece of a ditch. The Castle was once situated near the present Bishop's Palace. During an attack in 1055 the Castle was seriously battered but restored and put b ack in use in 1067. The site which it now occupies is a public garden, gay with shrubbery and flowers. An ornamental lake indicates where the moat once was, but the walls are only shown by grass covered ridges.
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!Per "My Boone Family": this Henry deBohun was noted as "d.s.p."
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1st Earl of Hereford, Sheriff of Kent, magna Carta Surrety, Constable of England, died in 1220 on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
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He served as Sheriff of Kent. He was one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta and was excommunicated by the Pope. He was one of the most important, wealth & independednt of the Welsh Marsher Lords. He was instrumental in the Baronial rebellion against King John. He sided with Prince Louis when Louis tried to seize the English throne and was taken prisoner in the Battle of Lincoln where Prince Louis was defeated.
=== Signer of the Magna Charta ===
Signer of the Magna Charta
=== ( Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith ) Henry ===
( Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith ) Henry de Bohun, Surety for the Observance of the Magna Charta, eldest son and heir, was born before 1177 and was in reality the 1st Earl of Hereford, being so created by Charter of King John, dated April 28, 1199, but the office of Lord High Constable was inherited from his father. He took a prominent part with the barons against King John, and in consequence his lands were sequestered, but he received them again at the granting of the Magna Charta. In 1220 he joined Saire de Quincey and other barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and died in passage June 1, 1220. His body was brought back home and buried in Loanthony Abbey in Gloucester. He married Maud, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz-piers and his wife, Beatrix de saye, sister and heiress of Geoffrey de Mandeville, a surety for Magna Charta. ( Kin of mellcene Thurman Smith ) Henry de Bohun, surety for the Observance of the Magna Charta, eldest son and heir, was born before 1177 and was in reality the 1st Earl of Hereford, being so created by Charter of King John, dated April 28, 1199, but the office of Lord High Constable was inherited from his father. He took a prominent part with the barons against King John, and in consequence his lands were sequestered, but he received them again at the granting of the Magna Charta. In 1220 he joined Saire de Quincey and other barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and died in passage June 1, 1220. His body was brought back home and buried in Loanthony Abeey in Gloucester. He married Maud, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz - Piers and his wife Beatrix de Saye, sister and heiress of Geoffrey de Mandeville, a surety for Magna Charta.
=== Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford. ===
Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford. In 1200 was Hereditary Constable of England.harta Sur ety, 1215. Died on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Henry de Bohun, Magna Charta Surety 1215, son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and Margaret de Huntingdon, born 1176, died 1 Jun 1220, sheriff of Kent, 1st Earl of Hereford 1200-1290, hereditary Constable of England; married Maud Fitz Geoffrey, died 1236, Countess of Essex, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, died 1213, Earl of Essex, and Beatrix de Say, daughter of William de Say. [Magna Charta Sureties] Humphrey de Bohun was Earl of Hereford and Constable of England in right of his mother, if the Chronicles of Llanthony be correct. His lordship m. Margaret of Scotland, dau. of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, sister of William, King of Scots, and widow of Conan le Petit, Earl of Brittany and Richmond, and was s. by his son, Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57, Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, and High Constables of England] Note: Note: Title: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 Note: Page: 18-1 Note: Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 Note: Page: 2944 Note: Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 Note: Page: 97-26 Note: Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 Note: Page: X:793
=== r.HENRY DE BOHUN, b. 1778, d. on a Pilgr ===
r.HENRY DE BOHUN, b. 1778, d. on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1 Jun. 1220, Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford, 1200. Hereditary Constable of England; Magna Charta Surety, 1215; m. Maud Fitz Geoffrey de Mandeville, d. 27 Aug. 1236, Countess of Essex, dau. of Geoffrey Fitz Piers (see also 246B-27), d. 1213, 4th Earl of Essex, and his (1) wife Beatrice de Say, dau. of William de Say. [Weis "60 Colonists", line 97-27.] b.Henry de Bohun, Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford 1200, Hereditary Constable of England was a Magna Charta Surety, 1215. He died on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 1 June 1220.
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Died and buried at sea; he was on Plgramage enroute to Holy Land. He was Fifth Earl of Hereford. He was Sheriff of Kent He was a Surety.
=== 1st Earl of Hereford by charter of creat ===
1st Earl of Hereford by charter of creation 27 April 1199. Constable of England. One of the 25 Barons who forced King John to accept the Magna Carta, 1215. He fought against the King in the ensuing civil war.He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
=== Henry Bohun joined with other barons an ===
Henry Bohun joined with other barons and obtained the concession of Magna Charta. He was one of the twenty-five appointed to insure it's observance. He was the cousin of seven other Barons who were involved. FROM: SIR FRANCIS BRYAN by David C. McMurtry, Ed. D. ******* by Arabella Churchill, granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill KG In speech to 106 members and guests of the National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons who came from 25 states. "...Although the first version applied only to the rights of the Barons, the formal version of Magna Charta issued on 19 June 1215 had a minor but vital word change, replacing the term "any baron" with the term "any freeman" in stipulating to whom the provisions and freedoms applied. This word change, over time, helped justify the application of the Charter's provisions to a greater part of the population. While freemen were a minority in 13th Century England, the term would eventually include all English, just as "We, the People" has come to mean all Americans in the 20th and 21st centuries." To join: The National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons (USA) see: http://www.magnacharta.org/Default.htm ****** The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000. Bohun, Henry de, 1st earl of Hereford 1176–1220, English nobleman. Although King John granted him the marcher lordship of Hereford in 1199, Henry was one of the barons who forced the king to accept the Magna Carta in 1215 and one of those appointed to oversee its observance. He fought against the king in the ensuing civil war. He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The following is from: National Archives and Records Administration Magna Carta and Its American Legacy Before penning the Declaration of Independence--the first of the American Charters of Freedom--in 1776, the Founding Fathers searched for a historical precedent for asserting their rightful liberties from King George III and the English Parliament. They found it in a gathering that took place 561 y ears earlier on the plains of Runnymede, not far from where Windsor Castle stands today. There, on June 15, 1215, an assembly of barons confronted a despotic and cash-strapped King John and demanded that traditional rights be recognized, written down, confirmed with the royal seal, and sent to each of the counties to be read to all freemen. The result was Magna Carta--a momentous achievement for the English barons and, nearly six centuries later, an inspiration for angry American colonists. Magna Carta was the result of the Angevin king's disastrous foreign policy and overzealous financial administration. John had suffered a staggering blow the previous year, having lost an important battle to King Philip II at Bouvines and with it all hope of regaining the French lands he had inherited. When the defeated John returned from the Continent, he attempted to rebuild his coffers by demanding cutage (a fee paid in lieu of military service) from the barons who had not joined his war with Philip. The barons in question, predominantly lords of northern estates, protested, condemning John's policies and insisting on a reconfirmation of Henry I's Coronation Oath (1100), which would, in theory, limit the king's ability to obtain funds. (As even Henry ignored the provisions of this charter, however, a reconfirmation would not necessarily guarantee fewer taxes.) But John refused to withdraw his demands, and by spring most baronial families began to take sides. The rebelling barons soon faltered before John's superior resources, but with the unexpected capture of London, they earned a substantial bargaining chip. John agreed to grant a charter. National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons Magna Charta Baron Page for Henry De Bohun Earl of Hereford Barons at Runnymede Page http://www.magnacharta.org/Barons/baron_henry_de_bohun.htm WURTS’ MAGNA CHARTA provided a brief accounting of the feudal headquarters of some of the Magna Charta Barons. Some of the castles have been badly damaged. Some have disappeared entirely. Often we can learn of them through Medieval and Renaissance accounts, and some of them require the discerning eye of the archeologist. Others await the evidence brought out with a shovel and pick, by the trained archeological historian. A portion of the information concerning Surety Baron HENRY de BOHUN is as follows: HENRY de BOHUN, the Surety, was born before 1177. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was so created by the Charter of King John, dated 28 April 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King, on becoming Earl of Hereford he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs, on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office of Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. As he took a prominent part with the Barons against King John, his lands were confiscated, but he received them again at the granting of Magna Charta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220, and died on the passage 1 June 1220. His body was brought home and buried in the chapter house of Llanthony Abbey inGloucestershire. His wife, Maud FitzGeoffrey, was the daughter of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Baron de Mandeville, and his first wife, Beatrix Saye. The name of Bohun suggests Hereford. Unfortunately, Hereford Castle no longer exists. It was built in 1048, and apparently consisted of a moat and bailey. The mound has been leveled to the ground, but the bailey is outlined by high banks. One report has it that all that remains is a platform and a piec e of a ditch. The Castle was once situated near the present Bishop's Palace. It was seriously battered in an attack in 1055, but it was restored, and was again in use in 1067. The site which it now occupies is a public garden, gay with shrubbery and flowers. An ornamental lake indicates where once was the moat, but the outlines of the walls are shown only by grass covered ridges. Appreciation is expressed to Reed M. W. Wurts, one of the Heralds of the Society for furnishing the Baron’s Shield on this page. (see web page above) ***************************
=== Biography ===
Surety Baron, signer of the Magna Carta. Earl of Hereford and fifth descendant from Malcom III, King of Scotland. Married Matilda de Mandeville and had three children, Humphrey, Henry and Ralph.Died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
For more, see links to Medieval Lands and Wikipedia articles in Sources.
=== Nickname: Surety Magna Carta Name ===
Nickname: Surety Magna Carta Name Prefix: Earl Name Suffix:Of Hereford
=== Surety of the Magna Charta. ===
Surety of the Magna Charta.
=== Henry de Bohun, Surety for the Magna Ch ===
Henry de Bohun, Surety for the Magna Charta, was in reality the first Earl of Hereford of this family, being so created by charter of King John dated April 28, 1199, but the Constableship he inherited from his father. His lordship, taking part with the barons against King John, had his land sequestered, but it was restored to him at the signing of the Magna Charta at Runnemede, the earl being one of the 25 lords appointed there to enforce the observance of the celebrated charters. His lordship was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope, and he became a prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln, 1st of Henry III, 1216. He married Maud, daughter of Geoffrey Fitzpiers. The Complete Peerage vol.V,p134.
=== He was Sheriff of Kent and hereditary Co ===
He was Sheriff of Kent and hereditary Constable of England, 1200-1220. Ref: Magna Carta, by Weis, p. 23, line 18.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Humphrey de Bohun III, b. BEF 1144 in Melksham, Wiltshire, England d. DEC 1181 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
Mother: Margaret of Huntingdon, b. 1145 in Scotland d. 1201 in Richmond, Yorkshire, England
Family 1: Maude de Mandeville, b. 1177 in Mandeville, Warwickshire, England d. 27 AUG 1236 in Quendon, Essex, England
- Hawis de Bohun, d. BEF 1243
- Humphrey de Bohun, b. BEF 1208 d. 24 SEP 1275
Family 2: Maud fitz Piers, b. 1185 in Mandeville, Warwickshire, England d. 27 AUG 1236 in Essex, England
- Ralph of Hereford De'Bohun, b. 1208 in Warwickshire, England d. 1270 in Warwickshire, England
- Humphrey de Bohun 2nd Earl of Hereford, b. 1204 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d. 24 SEP 1275 in Pleshy, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Family 3: Maud Fitzgeoffrey, b. 1190 in Warwick, City of Warwick, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom d. 27 AUG 1236 in London, City of London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Alice de Bohun, b. 1229 in Warwick, City of Warwick, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom d. in Titsey, Tandridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Sources:
- Title: Henry de Bohun V (1176-1220), Find a Grave
Author: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63286705/henry-de_bohun
Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63286705/henry-de_bohun;
Note: Sir Henry de Bohun V
BIRTH 1176 England
DEATH 1 Jun 1220 (aged 43–44) Israel
BURIAL Llanthony Secunda Priory
Hempsted, City of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
MEMORIAL ID 63286705
Henry was 1st Earl of Hereford and Hereditary Constable of England from 1199 to 1220. He was the son of Humphrey III de Bohun and Margaret of Huntingdon. He married Maud de Mandeville of Essex. He died whilst on pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
- Title: Humphrey de Bohun VI and Eleanor de Braose in The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Line 18, pg. 25 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Line 18, pg. 25
Note: Humphrey de Bohun VI and Eleanor de Braose in The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Line 18, pg. 25 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Humphrey de Bohun VI and Eleanor de Braose in The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Line 18, pg. 25 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176-1220), The Peerage
Author: https://www.thepeerage.com/p10287.htm#i102869 Darryl Lundy, The Peerage, a genealogical survey of the Peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe(http://thepeerage.com : accessed 8 Sep 2019), Henry de Bohun;
Publication: Name: https://www.thepeerage.com/p10287.htm#i102869;
Note: Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford was born circa 1176.1 He was the son of Humphrey de Bohun and Margaret of Scotland, Countess of Hereford. He married Matilda fitz Geoffrey, daughter of Geoffrey fitz Piers, 3rd Earl of Essex.1 He died in 1220.1 He was created 1st Earl of Hereford [England] on 28 April 1200.2
Child of Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford and Matilda fitz Geoffrey : Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford+3 b. c 1200, d. 24 Sep 1275
Citations [S11] Alison Weir, Britain\'s Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 195. Hereinafter cited as Britain\'s Royal Families. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VI, page 458. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VI, page 459.
- Title: Bohun, Earls of Hereford, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_Toc21106849 [See document in the Memories section]
Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_Toc21106849;
Note: Bohun, Earls of Hereford, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_Toc21106849 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Bohun, Earls of Hereford, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_Toc21106849 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Magna Carta Ancestry, Volume 1 (personal copy)
Author: Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 1, 2nd edition (N.p.: n.p., 2011), Volume 1, pages 225-226.
Note: .
Page: Well-documented and well-researched source.
- Title: Ancestry of Henry de Bohun in The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 80-82 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 80-82
Note: Ancestry of Henry de Bohun in The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 80-82 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Ancestry of Henry de Bohun in The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 80-82 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: The Medieval Lands Project, "Henry de Bohun"
Author: Medieval Lands Project (online).
Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#HenryBohunHereforddied1220B;
Note: HENRY de Bohun, son of HUMPHREY [IV] de Bohun, hereditary Constable of England & his wife Margaret of Huntingdon (-1 Jun 1220, bur Lanthony Priory, Gloucester). A manuscript which narrates the descents of the founders of Lanthony Abbey names “Henricus de Bohun comes Hereford et constabularius Angliæ” as son of “dominus Humfridus quartus de Bohun, comes Herefordiæ et constabularius Angliæ” and his wife “Margaretam comitissam Britanniæ”[524]. He succeeded his father as hereditary Constable of England. He inherited the principal estates of the former Earls of Hereford, through his paternal grandmother. The Red Book of the Exchequer, listing scutage payments in [1194/95], records "Henricus de Bohun" paying "x s, dimidium militem" in Berkshire[525]. He was created Earl of Hereford at Porchester 28 Apr 1200. He was one of the 25 barons appointed to secure the observance of Magna Carta in 1215, and after the death of King John supported Louis de France when he invaded England. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Lincoln 20 May 1217[526]. Matthew Paris records the death in 1220 of “Henricus de Boun comes Hertfordiæ”[527]. The Chronicle of Ralph of Coggeshall records the death in 1220 of "Henricus de Boum comes Herefordensis"[528]. A manuscript which narrates the descents of the founders of Lanthony Abbey records that “Henricus de Bohun” died 1 Jun 1220 and was buried at Lanthony[529]. A manuscript in Aske’s collections names “Milo…Erle of Herforde, Lord of Bricone and of all the Forest of Done, and also Constable of England…Ladi Margaret the furst begotton daughter of the said Milo…married to Humfre of Bohun the third…Humfre of Bohum the iiiith sonne and heire of the foresaid Margaret…Henri of Bohum sonne and heire of the foreseid Margaret…” among those buried at Lanthony Priory[530].
m as her first husband, MATILDA de Mandeville, daughter of GEOFFREY FitzPiers Earl of Essex & his first wife Beatrice de Say (-27 Aug 1236, bur Lanthony Priory). The History of the foundation of Walden abbey names “Galfridus…Willielmus cognomina Mandavilla…et Matildis, Humfrido de Bohun comiti Herefordiæ maritata” as children of “domino Galfrido filio Petri” & his wife[531]. A manuscript which narrates the descents of the founders of Lanthony Abbey records that “Henricus de Bohun” married “Matildem filiam et hæredem domini Galfridi filii Petri comitis Essexiæ”[532]. Henry III King of England ordered custody of "tocius terre que fuit H. comitis Herefordie", except the property of "Matildi comitisse Herefordie…manerio de Wokesie…dotem suam…[et] maritagio suo in manerio de Witehurst" given by "G. filius Petri pater ipsius comitisse…H. comiti Herefordie", dated 26 Jul 1220[533]. She married secondly (before 22 Feb 1228, divorced before 24 Apr 1233, divorce revoked before Jul 1236[534]) Roger de Daunteseye of Dauntsey, Wiltshire. The Testa de Nevill includes a list of landholdings in Gloucestershire, dated to [1226/28], which includes "Comitissa Herford est maritata Rogero de Antesye, nescitur pre quem. Terra eius valet xv.l"[535]. An order dated 22 Feb 1228 records a fine paid by "Rogerus de Antese et Matildis comitissa Herefordie uxor eius" in respect of a debt of "W. comes Essexie frater ipsius comitisse"[536]. She succeeded her brother, William de Mandeville Earl of Essex, in 1227 as Ctss of Essex, suo iure. The Annals of Dunstable record that “comitissa Herfordiæ” died in 1236[537].
Earl Henry & his wife had three children:
1. HUMPHREY [V] de Bohun (-24 Sep 1275, bur Lanthony Priory, Gloucester).
2. HENRY de Bohun .
3. RALPH de Bohun .
Page: Info for Henry
- Title: Bohun family pedigree cropped from the History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk, Vol. 1, pg. 544 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk, Vol. 1, pg. 544
Note: Bohun family pedigree cropped from the History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk, Vol. 1, pg. 544 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Bohun family pedigree cropped from the History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk, Vol. 1, pg. 544 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Henry de Bohun, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV23-2BQR : 9 May 2023), Henry de Bohun, ; Burial, Hempsted, City of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, Llanthony Secunda Priory; citing record ID 63286705, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV23-2BQR;
- Title: Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1175-1220), Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
Author: Citations [S2441] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. VI, p. 457-459; Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, by F. L. Weis, 4th Ed., p. 23. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 225-226. [S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 294-295. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 405-407. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 542. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 516. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 403. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 541. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 119.
Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p304.htm#i9122;
Note: Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent1,2,3,4,5,6
Last Edited 4 Apr 2020
M, #9122, b. circa 1175, d. 1 June 1220
Father Sir Humphrey IV de Bohun, Constable of England7,8 b. c 1144, d. 1182
Mother Margaret, Princess of Scotland7,8 b. c 1145, d. 1201
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent was born circa 1175 at of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England; Age 10 in 1185.2,4 He married Maud de Mandeville, daughter of Sir Geoffrey FitzPiers, 4th Earl of Essex, Chief Justiciar of England, Constable of the Tower of London, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Westmorland, Hampshire, & Shropshire and Beatrice de Say, circa 1192; They had 2 sons (Sir Humphrey, Earl of Hereford & Essex; & Henry).2,3,4,5,6 Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, Magna Carta Surety, Constable of England, Sheriff of Kent died on 1 June 1220 at Holy Land; Buried with his son (Henry) in the Chapter House of Llanthony Priory, Gloucester, Gloucestershire.2,4
Family: Maud de Mandeville b. 1178, d. 27 Aug 1236
Children:
Sir Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, 1st Earl of Essex, Sheriff of Kent, Constable of the Exchequer, England, & Dover Castle+9,2,3,4 b. c 1200, d. 24 Sep 1275
Sir Henry de Bohun, Rector of Farley4 b. a 1220
- Title: Pedigree II of Henry de Bohun in The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 133-34 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 133-34
Note: Pedigree II of Henry de Bohun in The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 133-34 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Pedigree II of Henry de Bohun in The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 133-34 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: The Bohun family in Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pg. 180-181 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pg. 180-181
Note: The Bohun family in Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pg. 180-181 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: The Bohun family in Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pg. 180-181 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Wikipedia -Bohun family
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohun_family;
Note: The de Bohun then Bohun family is an English noble family of Norman origin that played a prominent role in English political and military history during the Late Middle Ages. The swan used by the family and their descendants as a heraldic badge came to be called the Bohun swan.
Humphrey with the Beard (died c. 1113), who founded the English family, held the manor of Bohun (or Bohon) in Normandy – on the Cotentin Peninsula between Coutances and the estuary of the Vire.[1] This is still reflected in place names such as Saint-André-de-Bohon and Saint-Georges-de-Bohon. From one son of Humphrey with the same name, the male line continued, becoming Earls of Hereford, Essex and Northampton, using the name Humphrey repeatedly in successive generations. The male line of another son of Humphrey with the Beard, Richard de Meri, died out in the 12th century, but his heirs in the female line took the surname of Bohun, giving rise to the Bohuns of Midhurst in West Sussex.[2]
Humphrey with the Beard (died c. 1113)
Richard de Meri
Richard de Bohun
Richard de Bohun (d. 1179), Bishop of Coutances
Josceline de Bohon (c. 1111-1184), Bishop of Salisbury
Reginald Fitz Jocelin (d. 1191), Bishop of Bath, Archbishop of Canterbury-elect
Muriel, married Savaric Fitzcana of Midhurst
Geldewin
Franco de Bohun, ancestor of the Bohuns of Midhurst
Savaric FitzGeldewin (d. 1205), Bishop of Bath
Humphrey I de Bohun (died c.1123), married Maud, daughter of Edward of Salisbury
Humphrey II de Bohun (died 1164/5), married Margaret, daughter of Miles of Gloucester
Humphrey III de Bohun (died 1181), married Margaret of Huntingdon
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176–1220), a Norman-English nobleman
Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford and 1st Earl of Essex (Humphrey IV, c.1204–1275), Constable of England
Humphrey V de Bohun (d. 1265), fought on the side of the rebellious barons in the Barons' War
Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford and 2nd Earl of Essex (Humphrey VI, c.1249-c.1298), a key figure in the Norman conquest of Wales
Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, 3rd Earl of Essex (Humphrey VII, 1276-1321/2), one of the Ordainers who opposed Edward II's excesses
Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde (1304–1363)
John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford, 4th Earl of Essex (1306–1336)
Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford, 5th Earl of Essex (Humphrey VIII, 1309–1361), Lord High Constable of England
Margaret de Bohun, Countess of Devon (1311-1391)
William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, KG (ca. 1312 – 1360); English nobleman and military commander at the Battle of Crécy
Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton (Humphrey IX, 1342–1373), an English noble during the reign of King Edward III
Eleanor de Bohun (c.1366–1399); elder daughter and co-heiress
Mary de Bohun (c. 1368–1394); younger daughter, the first wife of King Henry IV of England and mother of King Henry V
Elizabeth de Bohun, Countess of Arundel and Surrey (c. 1350–1385)
Henry de Bohun (d. 1314), English knight killed by Robert I of Scotland at Bannockburn
Page: Noble Family
- Title: Henry de Bohun (1176-1220) in Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99QY-Z3B1?cc=2060211&wc=WWF8-F3S%3A352086301%2C352507701
Author: "Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99QY-Z3B1?cc=2060211&wc=WWF8-F3S%3A352086301%2C352507701 : 20 May 2014), D > Debnam, John (1726) - De Bruijn, William (1744) > image 447 of 1316; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, compiler, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99QY-Z3B1;
Note: Henry de Bohun (1176-1220) married Maud FitzPiers or Manderville and had children according to research before 1952 based on the National Dictionary of Biography
Page: Names, dates, locations, and relationships match research. May not be available to those without access by membership.
- Title: Henry de Bohun and Humphrey V de Bohun in the Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 1, pg. 72-73 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 1, pg. 72-73
Note: Henry de Bohun and Humphrey V de Bohun in the Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 1, pg. 72-73 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Henry de Bohun and Humphrey V de Bohun in the Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 1, pg. 72-73 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Mandeville, Earls of Essex, in The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#_Toc21106901 [See document in the Memories section]
Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#_Toc21106901;
Note: Mandeville, Earls of Essex, in The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#_Toc21106901 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Mandeville, Earls of Essex, in The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#_Toc21106901 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Magna CartaTrust: Henry De Bohun
Author: The Magna Carta Trust
Publication: Name: https://magnacarta800th.com/schools/biographies/the-25-barons-of-magna-carta/henry-de-bohun/;
Note: Henry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, was a member of the Essex-based family grouping brought to the rebel cause by kinship with Geoffrey de Mandeville and Robert FitzWalter. Henry’s family also held important blocks of lands in the west of England and the Welsh Marches.
Henry (c. 1175-1220) was the son of Humphrey de Bohun (d. 1181) and Margaret (d. 1201), daughter of Henry, earl of Northumberland, and widow of Conan IV, duke of Brittany. His grandmother was Margaret de Bohun, the daughter of Miles of Gloucester, earl of Hereford, one of the earliest and most consistent supporters of the Empress Matilda in the civil war of King Stephen’s reign. Margaret brought to the de Bohuns her family’s claims to the royal constableship and to the earldom of Hereford. The constable’s office had been granted to her son – Henry’s father – before 1174 and was therefore inherited by Henry himself, who used the style ‘Henry the Constable’ in a number of his early charters. Despite his youth he occasionally attested charters of Richard I and was one of the king’s sureties in negotiations with the count of Flanders in 1197.
John bestowed the title earl of Hereford on Henry in 1200, though at the same time prohibiting him from staking any claim to the generous grants which Henry II had made in a charter to his ancestor Earl Roger of Hereford. His grandmother’s advocacy had been a factor in this success, but equally significant was the fact that his mother was a granddaughter of David I, king of Scotland, and his uncle was William the Lion, a later king of the same country. Between 1204 and 1211 Henry was engaged in a lengthy dispute to establish his claim to a part of his mother’s dower lands, the valuable lordship of Ryhall in Rutland. No sooner had this dispute been settled than he found himself dragged into yet further litigation, countering a claim by the king’s half-brother, William Longespée, earl of Salisbury, to his lordship of Trowbridge (Wilts.) on the pretext of descent from an earlier owner, Edward of Salisbury. This immensely long drawn-out dispute was to lead to a sharp deterioration in his relations with King John. Longespée initiated the legal action in1212, and Earl Henry responded by resort to the time-wasting tactics characteristic of the time, pleading illness as an excuse for absence from hearings. As such an excuse was inadmissible in this sort of case, the king took the lordship into his own hands, while allowing Longespée to levy scutage (money in lieu of military service) from its tenants. The sense of hurt which Earl Henry felt was a major factor in his support for the rebels in 1215, as John’s seizure of the lordship constituted a disseisin made ‘unjustly and without judgement’, in the wording used in clause 39 of the Charter. A further claim on his allegiance was made by the ties of kinship: his wife was Maud, daughter of Geoffrey FitzPeter and therefore sister of Geoffrey de Mandeville. By virtue of his involvement on the rebel side in 1215 he secured the restoration of the territorial lordship, although not of the castle, of Trowbridge. Letters ordering the estate’s restitution to him were among the first to be issued in 1215 in execution of the Charter. The dispute continued to splutter on, however, and a final settlement was not reached until 1229, when Edward of Salisbury’s estates were divided equally between the claimants, the castle and manor of Trowbridge itself going to the Countess Ela, Longespée’s widow.
On the death of King John, Earl Henry remained loyal to the rebel cause and he was taken prisoner with the other rebel leaders at the battle of Lincoln in May 1217. As part of the general settlement in September he made his peace with the Minority government, subsequently attending the young Henry III’s court, receiving the earl’s third penny of Herefordshire and accounting for scutage. He died on pilgrimage to the Holy Land on 1 June 1220, leaving a son and heir, Humphrey. His widow took as her second husband, sometime between 1221 and 1226, one Sir Roger de Dauntsey and succeeded in her own right to the earldom of Essex, which on her death was inherited by her son.
Earl Henry was buried in the chapter house of Llanthony priory, near Gloucester, the traditional burial place of the de Bohun family. He was succeeded in the title by his son, Humphrey, who was to live until 1275.
Earl Henry was a notable figure in the development of modern Trowbridge, as it was he who in 1200 secured from King John the grant of a market and annual fair there. From this privilege flowed the laying out of the market place along the curved line of the castle ditch, the removal of the church from the castle’s inner bailey and the construction of the present church of St James in the heart of the town. It is likely that the earl’s considerable investment in Trowbridge helps to explain his keenness to retain possession of the place in the face of William Longespée’s persistent claims.
BY PROFESSOR NIGEL SAUL, ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
- Title: Humphrey de Bohun VI and Eleanor de Braose in Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, Line 97 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, Line 97
Note: Humphrey de Bohun VI and Eleanor de Braose in Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, Line 97 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Humphrey de Bohun VI and Eleanor de Braose in Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, Line 97 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Magna Carta Ancestry, Volume 1 (personal copy)
Author: Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 1, 2nd edition (N.p.: n.p., 2011), Volume 1, pages 225-226.
Note: .
Page: Well-documented and well-researched source.
- Title: Pedigree III of Henry de Bohun in The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 134 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 134
Note: Pedigree III of Henry de Bohun in The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 134 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Pedigree III of Henry de Bohun in The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 134 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Royal Ancestry
Author: Douglas Richardson
Note: “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HENRY DE BOHUN, of Trowbridge, Heddington, and Newton Tony, Wiltshire, hereditary Constable of England, son and heir, born about 1175 (aged 10 in 1185). In 1185 he was a minor in the custody of his widowed grandmother, Margaret de Bohun. He attested a number of her charters and accounted for relief for her lands in 1197. Sometime in the period, 1187-93, he witnessed a charter for his mother to Bradenstoke Priory. He married MAUD DE MANDEVILLE,* daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., 4th Earl of Essex, by his 1st wife, Beatrice, eldest daughter and co-heiress of William de Say, of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, and Saham, Norfolk [see ESSEX 2 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Wheatenhurst, and property in Framilode (in Fretherne), Gloucestershire. They had two sons, Humphrey, Knt. [Earl of Hereford and Essex] and possibly Henry.
In 1196 his sister, Maud de Bohun, quitclaimed to him all her right to the viii of Walton upon Thames, Surrey (a Bohun family property), in exchange for confirmation of lands which she had in marriage with Juhel de Mayenne, namely lands in the vills of Blackmoor (in Selbome), Hampshire and Newton Tony, Wiltshire. Henry was created Earl of Hereford 28 April 1200, on his consenting to release his right to certain lands which his ancestor, Miles of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford, had received from his father-in-law, Bernard de Newmarch.
In 1200 he was sent with other nobles to escort his uncle, William the Lion, King of Scotland to do homage to King John at Lincoln. The same year he was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Sometime in the period, 1200-20, with consent of his wife, Countess Maud, he gave a messuage with curtilage in Framilode (in Fretherne), Gloucestershire to the monks of Winchcombe Abbey. In the same period, he granted land in Westbury, Gloucestershire to Richard Fitz Roger, of Westbury, for the services of 1/4 knights' fee. In 1204 Earl Henry was involved in a legal dispute with his uncle, David, Earl of Huntingdon, regarding 20 knight's fees in the honour of Huntingdon, including the manors of Glaston and Ryhall, Rutland; Earl David failed to appear to prosecute his claim and seisin was given to Henry.
In the period, 1208-11, his uncle, William the Lion, King of Scotland confirmed to William Noble lands in Kilpunt and Illieston (both in Kirkliston), West Lothian in Scotland, which lands were previously granted to said Noble by Henry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford. In 1212 William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury, and his wife, Ela, instituted suit in the king's court against Ela's kinsman, Earl Henry, for the barony of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Henry's chief fief. The king assumed control of the honour, but allowed Earl William's agents to levy scutage from its tenants. Sometime before 1215 he granted a house and land on English Street in Southampton to Beaulieu Abbey.
In 1215 he joined the confederacy of the barons against the king, and his lands were seized by the king He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. After the death of King John, he adhered to the party of Louis of France, and his lands were again declared forfeited. He fought at the Battle of Lincoln, where he was taken prisoner 20 May 1217. He was subsequently released and his lands restored, excepting the manor of Ryhall, Rutland.
About Michaelmas 1219 Alan le Grant was charged one mark by the king to have an assize of novel disseisin against Henry, Earl of Hereford, in Surrey. Sometime before 1219, he quitclaimed to Malmesbury Abbey all his right to one carucate of pasture land located between Kemble and Chelworth, Wiltshire.
HENRY DE BOHUN, 5th Earl of Hereford, went on a crusade to the Holy Land in 1219, where he died 1 June 1220. He was buried with his son, Henry, in the chapter house of Llanthony Priory outside Gloucester. In Michaelmas term 1220 and Michaelmas term 1221 his widow, Maud, sued William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury, and Ela his wife in a plea of dower in Wiltshire. Maud married (2nd) after Michaelmas 1221 (date of lawsuit) and before Easter term 1226 (date of lawsuit) ROGER DE DAUNTSEY (or DE DAUNTESEY), Knt., of Dauntsey and Wilsford, Wiltshire, and, in right of his wife, of Pleshey, Debden, High Easter, Walden, and Waltham, Essex, Amersham and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, Enfield, Middlesex, Long Compton, Warwickshire, etc. They had no issue.
In 1226 she and her husband, Roger, were sued by her son, Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, regarding the manor of Heddington, Wiltshire. Maud was heiress in 1227 to her brother, William de Mandeville, 6th Earl of Essex, whereby she became suo jure Countess of Essex. She and Roger had livery of her Mandeville inheritance 29 October 1227 and 22 Feb. 1227/8.
In the period, 1226-c.1243, Roger reached an agreement with Simon, Prior of Bradenstoke, concerning a close called Linley situated between their lands. In the period, 1227-32, she gave a tenth of her means of life to the nunnery of St. Mary Clerkenwell, as her cousin, Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2.d Earl of Essex, granted it. In 1229 Roger and his wife, Countess Maud, sold one moiety of the manor of Long Compton, Warwickshire, excluding the capital messuage, to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and the other moiety of the manor, including the capital messuage, to Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent.
In 1229/30 she received the manors of Gussage, Dorset and Debden, Essex, as well as property in Winchester, Hampshire, by settlement with her half-brother, John Fitz Geoffrey. Countess Maud subsequently conveyed the manor of Gussage, Dorset to her half-sister, Maud Fitz Geoffrey (died 1261), wife successively of Henry d'Oilly, Knt., and William de Cantelowe, Knt., Steward of the King's Household.
Countess Maud instituted annulment proceedings in 1232 to free herself from her second husband, Roger. In Easter term 1232 Josce de Cornhull sued Roger and his wife, Maud, regarding a debt of £24 14s. 3d. in Essex. Following a sentence of divorce pronounced in Court Christian, Maud had a writ of livery, 24 April 1233, for all the lands of her inheritance then in the hands of Roger. A papal review board, however, overturned the sentence of divorce three years later and adjudged her to be Roger's lawful wife. The castles and lands which comprised Maud's inheritance and dower, and from which she had made grants in her "free widowhood" during those three years, were ordered restored to Roger in July 1236.
Sometime in the period, 1233-6, she quitclaimed to her half-brother, John Fitz Geoffrey, 100s. which he owed her annually for Cherhill, Wiltshire. In 1234 she granted her half-brother, John Fitz Geoffrey, the manor of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, he rendering to her the service due to the chief lord of the fee, as well as the service of a twentieth of a knight. In the period, 1234-5, she leased the manors of Saffron Walden and Debden, Essex to Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury at an annual rent of £120, until a debt of 7,160 marks owed by her late brothers, Geoffrey and William de Mandeville, was paid in full.
In Jan. 1236 the king requested that she fulfill the promise which she gave to Master John de Ferentino, Archdeacon of Norwich, of making him a provision of £10 yearly in land in the manor of High Easter, Essex. Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, died 27 August 1236. On 25 October 1236 Ela, Countess of Salisbury, reached agreement with William Longespee, her eldest son, to grant a moiety of the manor of Heddington, Wiltshire to Lacock Priory, which property fell to her on the death of Countess Maud. Sir Roger de Dauntsey was living in August 1238.
- Title: Bohun pedigree in North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, The ancestors and descendants of Dr. David Rogers, pg. 98 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: The ancestors and descendants of Dr. David Rogers, pg. 98
Note: Bohun pedigree in North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, The ancestors and descendants of Dr. David Rogers, pg. 98 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Bohun pedigree in North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, The ancestors and descendants of Dr. David Rogers, pg. 98 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: The Bohun family in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 57 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 57
Note: The Bohun family in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 57 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: The Bohun family in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 57 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: World History - the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the 6th Crusade
Author: Asbridge, T. The Crusades. Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2012. Nicolle, D. The Second Crusade 1148. Osprey Publishing, 2009. Phillips, J. The Crusades, 1095-1204. Routledge, 2014. Riley-Smith, J. The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades. Oxford University Press, 2001. Runciman, S. A History of the Crusades. Cambridge University Press, 1987. Tyerman, C. God's War. Belknap Press, 2009.
Publication: Name: https://www.worldhistory.org/Kingdom_of_Jerusalem/;
Note: The Sixth Crusade
When the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204 CE) attacked Constantinople instead of the Muslim world, and the Fifth Crusade (1217-1221 CE) met with disaster on the Nile, it looked like the Christians would never rule Jerusalem ever again. Hope springs eternal, though, and, against all predictions, they did indeed regain the city from 1229 to 1243 CE, this time thanks to diplomacy, not warfare. The Sixth Crusade (1228-1229 CE), led by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (r. 1220-1250 CE) negotiated from the Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt and Syria, al-Kamil (r. 1218-1238 CE), the handover of the Holy City in 1229 CE. Al-Kamil was having his own internal problems over Damascus as well as having to face a threat to his territory in northern Iraq, so the concession of Jerusalem was given to avoid a damaging war over a prize that had little economic or military value. Under the deal, Muslims were to leave Jerusalem but could freely visit their own holy sites on pilgrimage.
Destruction
Despite the regain of Jerusalem, Acre remained the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, a wise decision given that the Holy City would soon be lost, yet again. This time it was to the allies of the Ayyubid Dynasty, the nomadic Khorezmians (Khwarismians) who captured it on 23 August 1244 CE. The Ayyubid control of the Middle East was greatly strengthened when a large Latin army and its Muslim allies from Damascus and Homs was defeated at the battle of La Forbie (Harbiya) in Gaza on 17 October 1244 CE. Over 1,000 knights were killed in the battle, a disaster from which the Crusader states never really recovered. A Seventh Crusade (1248-1254 CE) was launched, but like the Fifth Crusade, it got bogged down in Egypt and ended a flop. Its leader, Louis IX of France (r. 1226-1270 CE) did stay on in the Middle East and helped to refortify some of the cities of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, notably Sidon, Jaffa, and Caesarea. One final major Crusade, the Eighth Crusade (1270 CE), again led by Louis IX and again attacking the Ayyubids in Egypt, was another failure, and this time it was the last.
In between these last two crusades, a new threat had appeared in the region in the form of the Mongol Empire. The Mongols, moving relentlessly westwards, made raids on Ascalon, and Jerusalem. When a Mongol garrison was established at Gaza, an attack on Sidon quickly followed in August 1260 CE. Meanwhile, the Egyptian-based Mamluks (1250-1517 CE) had taken over from the Ayyubids. Their leader was the brilliant general Baibars (r. 1260-1277 CE) who managed to push the Mongols back to the Euphrates River and take over much of the Latin East so that only two pockets remained around Acre and Antioch. Then mighty Antioch fell in 1268 CE and Acre in 1291 CE; the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Latin East now only existed as a refuge on Cyprus, and the Holy Land was definitively lost to the Christians.
- Title: Wikipedia - Earls of Hereford
Author: Fryde, E. B. (1961). Handbook of British Chronology (Second ed.). London: Royal Historical Society. p. 431
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Hereford;
Note: The title of Earl of Hereford was created six times in the Peerage of England. Dates indicate the years the person held the title for.
Contents
1 Earls of Hereford, First Creation (1043)
2 Earls of Hereford, Second Creation (1052)
3 Earls of Hereford, Third Creation (1058)
4 Earls of Hereford, Fourth Creation (1067)
5 Earls of Hereford, Fifth Creation (1141)
6 Earls of Hereford, Sixth Creation (1199)
Earls of Hereford, First Creation (1043)
Swegen Godwinson (1043–1051)
earldom forfeit 1051–1052
Earls of Hereford, Second Creation (1052)
Ralph the Timid, Earl of Hereford (1052–1057)
earldom extinct 1057–1058
Earls of Hereford, Third Creation (1058)
Harold Godwinson, Earl of Hereford (later Harold II of England) (1058–1066)
earldom extinct 1066–1067
Earls of Hereford, Fourth Creation (1067)
William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (1067–1071)
Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford (1071–1074)
earldom forfeit 1074–1141
Earls of Hereford, Fifth Creation (1141)
Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford (1141–1143)
Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford (1143–1155)
earldom extinct 1155–1199
Earls of Hereford, Sixth Creation (1199)
Arms of Bohun, adopted c.1200: Azure, a bend argent cotised or between six lions rampant or
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1199–1220)
Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford (1220–1275)
Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford (1275–1298)
Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford (1298–1322)
John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (1322–1336)
Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford (1336–1361)
Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (1361–1373)
Heiresses:
Eleanor de Bohun (c. 1366 – 1399), who married Thomas of Woodstock; their great-great-great-grandson Walter Devereux was created Viscount Hereford in 1550
Mary de Bohun (c. 1368 – 1394), who married Henry of Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV of England; he was created Duke of Hereford in 1397
- Title: Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176-1220), Wikipedia
Author: References Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.91 One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Davis, Henry (1911). "Bohun". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 137. Pollock 2015, p. 101. BOMC: Profiles of Magna Charta Sureties and Other Supporters Sources Pollock, M. A. (2015). Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296. The Boydell Press. Cokayne, G. (ed. by V. Gibbs). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. London:1887-1896, H-457-459
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_Bohun%2C_1st_Earl_of_Hereford;
Note: Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176 – 1 June 1220) of Pleshy Castle in Essex, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who became Hereditary Constable of England from 1199.
Origins
He was the son and heir of Humphrey III de Bohun (pre-1144-1181) of Trowbridge Castle in Wiltshire and of Caldicot Castle in south-east Wales, 5th feudal baron of Trowbridge,[1] who served King Henry II as Lord High Constable of England. His mother was Margaret of Huntingdon, widow of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (d.1171) and a daughter of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, son of King David I of Scotland by his wife Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon. Henry's half-sister was Constance, Duchess of Brittany.
Earldom
His paternal grandmother was Margaret of Hereford, a daughter of Miles FitzWalter of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, Lord of Brecknock (died 1143), Sheriff of Gloucester and Constable of England. After the male line of Miles of Gloucester failed, in 1199 King John created Henry de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Constable of England. His lands lay chiefly on the Welsh Marches, and from this date the Bohuns took a foremost place among the Marcher barons.[2]
Henry de Bohun was one of the twenty-five barons elected by their peers to enforce the terms of Magna Carta in 1215. He was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope. In the civil war that followed Magna Carta, he was a supporter of King Louis VIII of France and was captured at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217.[2]
Marriage and issue
He married Maud de Mandeville (alias Maud FitzGeoffrey), daughter and heiress of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, of Pleshy Castle in Essex, by whom he had issue including:
Humphrey IV de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, 1st Earl of Essex (1204-1275),[3] eldest son and heir, created Earl of Essex in 1239, who married Maud de Lusignan, by whom he had at least three children.
Henry de Bohun, who died young.
Ralph de Bohun.
Death
He died in June 1220 while on crusade to the Holy Land.[3][4]
- Title: Humphrey de Bohun V and Humphrey de Bohun VI in the Dictionary of National Biography, pg. 308-09 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Dictionary of National Biography, pg. 308-09
Note: Humphrey de Bohun V and Humphrey de Bohun VI in the Dictionary of National Biography, pg. 308-09 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Humphrey de Bohun V and Humphrey de Bohun VI in the Dictionary of National Biography, pg. 308-09 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: The Bohun family in Burke's The Roll of Battle Abbey, pg. 20 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Burke's The Roll of Battle Abbey, pg. 20
Note: The Bohun family in Burke's The Roll of Battle Abbey, pg. 20 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: The Bohun family in Burke's The Roll of Battle Abbey, pg. 20 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Some entries concerning some of the earliest members of the Bohun family in British History Online [See document in the Memories section]
Publication: Name: http://www.british-history.ac.uk;
Note: Some entries concerning some of the earliest members of the Bohun family in British History Online [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Some entries concerning some of the earliest members of the Bohun family in British History Online [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Pedigree I of Henry de Bohun in The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 133 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 133
Note: Pedigree I of Henry de Bohun in The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 133 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Pedigree I of Henry de Bohun in The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, pg. 133 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Humphrey de Bohun (1150-1182) in Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9QY-Z3Y3?cc=2060211&wc=WWF8-F3S%3A352086301%2C352507701
Author: "Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9QY-Z3Y3?cc=2060211&wc=WWF8-F3S%3A352086301%2C352507701 : 20 May 2014), D > Debnam, John (1726) - De Bruijn, William (1744) > image 450 of 1316; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, compiler, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9QY-Z3Y3;
Note: Humphrey de Bohun (1150-1182) married Margaret Huntington and had children according to research before 1954. Membership to access database is needed to view this early research. Research was based on the National Dictionary of Biography which was a print source.
Page: Names, dates, locations, and relationships match research
- Title: The Bohun family in the Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 1, pg. 71-74 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 1, pg. 71-74
Note: The Bohun family in the Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 1, pg. 71-74 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: The Bohun family in the Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 1, pg. 71-74 [See document in the Memories section]
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