Frank de Bohun

• Preferred Name: Frank de Bohun
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GXP2-F4B
  
• Birth: 1155 in Midhurst, Sussex, England at LATI: N0.9874 LONG: E0.7459
  
• Death: AFT 31 MAR 1190 in England
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  
  FRANCO de Bohun, son of GELDUIN FitzSavary & his wife Estrangia --- (-after 31 Mar 1190). King Richard I confirmed "Ford, Climpling, Rustinton, Presteton and Lovinto…in the county of Sussex" to "Francus de Bohun", to hold in the same way as "Savaric son of Savaric, heir of Enjulger de Bohon" had held, by charter dated 31 Mar 1190[937]. His descendants were the Bohun family of Midhurst, Ford and Hustington in Sussex, which is set out in Europäische Stammtafeln[938]. The family became extinct in the senior male line in 1492 and in a junior male line (the Bohun family of Westhall, Suffolk) in 1780.
  
  m ROHAIS, daughter of --- (-after 1195).
  
  Franco & his wife had two children:
  
  1. ENGELGER de Bohun (-[1218/19]).
  
  2. SAVARY de Bohun of Midhurst, Ford & Huntington, Sussex (-before 11 Apr 1246). m CECILY, daughter of GEOFFREY FitzPiers Earl of Essex & his second wife Aveline de Clare (-1253). Savary & his wife had one child:
  
  a) FRANCIS de Bohun of Midhurst, Sussex (-14 Sep 1273). A document dated Saturday after St. Denis "1 Edw I", after the death of "Franco alias Francius de Boun", names "Sir John de Boun his son aged 26 is his next heir", and refers to “Storemenistre” in Dorset “held...of the inheritance of Sibyl sometime his wife...which Thomas de Boun his son now has”[939]. m firstly SIBYL de Ferrers, daughter of WILLIAM de Ferrers Earl of Derby & his first wife Agnes of Chester. The Chronicle of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire names "Agnes, secunda Isabella, tertia Matilda, quarta Sibilla, quinta Johanna, sexta Alianora, septima Agatha" as the seven daughters of "Willielmo de Ferrers comiti Derbiæ" and his wife "quarta filia…Willihelmi Marescalli…Sibilla", adding that "Sibilla de Bohun quarta filia" was mother of "Johanne, Johannes"[940]. The Annals of Ireland record that “Sibilla comitissa de Ferreys” had seven daughters (in order) “quarta, Sibilla de Bohun, uxor domini Francisci de Bohun, domini de Midhurst…”[941]. A charter dated 28 Jun 1248 records that "Margaret late Countess of Lincoln…recovered her dower out of the lands in Ireland of W[alter] Marshall late Earl of Pembroke her husband" and that the dower was "taken out of the portions of the inheritance which accrued to William de Vescy and Agnes his wife, Reginald de Moun and Isabel his wife, Matilda de Kyme, Francis de Boun and Sibil his wife, William de Vallibus and Alienor his wife, John de Moun and Joan his wife, Agatha de Ferrers in the king’s custody, and Roger de Mortimer and Matilda his wife"[942]. A charter dated 26 May 1250 records the restoration of property, granted to "Margaret Countess of Lincoln", to "William de Vescy and Agnes his wife, Reginald de Moun and Isabel his wife, William de Fortibus and Matilda his wife, Francis de Boun and Sibil his wife, William de Vallibus and Alienor his wife, John de Moun and Joan his wife, Agatha de Ferrers in the king’s custody, Roger de Mortimer and Matilda his wife, and William de Cantilupe and Eva his wife"[943]. m secondly NICOLE de la Chapelle, daughter of --- (-after 5 Oct 1273). Francis & his first wife had two children:
  
  i) JOHN de Bohun ([1246/47]-28 Sep 1284). A document dated Saturday after St. Denis "1 Edw I", after the death of "Franco alias Francius de Boun", names "Sir John de Boun his son aged 26 is his next heir"[944]. Inquisitions following a writ dated 18 Oct "12 Edw I", after the death of "John de Bohun alias de Boun of the county of Sussex”, name “John his son aged 9 at Whitsunday in that year is his heir”, found that he died “on the eve of St. Michael 12 Edw I”, and name “Joan his wife” from whom he inherited “Nytimbre” in Sussex[945]. m JOAN, daughter of ---. Inquisitions following a writ dated 18 Oct "12 Edw I", after the death of "John de Bohun alias de Boun of the county of Sussex”, name “Joan his wife” from whom he inherited “Nytimbre” in Sussex[946]. John & his wife had one child:
  
  (a) JOHN de Bohun ([1274/75]-). Inquisitions following a writ dated 18 Oct "12 Edw I", after the death of "John de Bohun alias de Boun of the county of Sussex”, name “John his son aged 9 at Whitsunday in that year is his heir”[947].
  
  ii) THOMAS de Bohun . A document dated Saturday after St. Denis "1 Edw I", after the death of "Franco alias Francius de Boun", refers to “Storemenistre” in Dorset “held...of the inheritance of Sibyl sometime his wife...which Thomas de Boun his son now has”[948].

1. Savary de Bohun, b. ABT 1180 in Midhurst, England     d. ABT 1246