Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford






Arms of Sir Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, KG


Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton, KG (25 March 1341 – 16 January 1373) was the son of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton and Elizabeth de Badlesmere, and grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford by Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I. He became heir to the Earldom of Hereford after the death of his childless uncle Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford.


Following King Peter I's visit to England, Humphrey participated in the sack of Alexandria in 1365.[1]


His wife and the mother of his daughters was Joan Fitzalan, daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster, whom he married after 9 September 1359.


On his death, his great estates were divided between his two surviving daughters:




  • Eleanor de Bohun, who married Thomas of Woodstock.


  • Mary de Bohun, who married Henry Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV of England.

  • Elizabeth, died young.



Ancestry


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Notes





  1. ^ Anthony Goodman, The Loyal Conspiracy:The Lords Appellant under Richard II, (The University of Miami Press, 1971), 12.




References



  • Hazlitt, William Carew, and Thomas Blount. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors. 4th. London: Ballentine and Company, 1874. ad

  • Medieval Lands Project on Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
























Political offices
Preceded by
Humphrey de Bohun

Lord High Constable
1361–1372
Succeeded by
Thomas of Woodstock

Peerage of England
Preceded by
William de Bohun

Earl of Northampton
1360–1373

In abeyance
Title next held by

Henry Bolingbroke
Preceded by
Humphrey de Bohun

Earl of Hereford
1361–1373

Extinct
or in abeyance or dormant
next held as dukedom by
Henry Bolingbroke


Earl of Essex
1361–1373

In abeyance
Title next held by

Thomas of Woodstock










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