Humphrey De Bohun Earl Of Hereford And Essex ^{2 3 4 5}

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Humphrey de Bohun VIII, born c1276, slain at Boroughbridge 16 Mar 1321/2, Earl of Hereford and Essex, Lord High Constable of England; married 14 Nov 1302, Elizabeth Plantagenet, born Aug 1282, died 5 May 1316, daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Earl of Essex, and Lord High Constable. In the 30th Edward I [1302-3], this nobleman gave and granted unto the king, by a formal conversance, the inheritances of al his lands and lordships, as also of his earldoms of Hereford and Essex, and the constableship of England, which, upon his marriage with Elizabeth Plantagenet, widow of John, Earl of Holland, and dau. of the king, were regranted to him and entailed upon his issue lawfully begotten by that lady; in default thereof, and from and after the death of himself and wife, then the lordship of Plessets and certain other lordships in Essex and elsewhere, together with the constableship, should remain wholly to the king and his heirs for ever. In the 34th of the same reign [13-6-7] he had a grant similarly entailed of the whole territory of Annandale, in Scotland. After this his lordship was in the wars of Scotland and was taken prisoner in the 7th Edward II (1313-14), at the disastrous battle (to the English) of Stryvelin. But he was exchanged for the wife of Robert Bruce, who had long been captive in England. From this period we find him constantly engaged in the service of the crown until the 14th year of the king's reign [1321-22], when Edward learning that the earl was raising forces in the marches of Wales against Hugh de Spencer the younger, sent him a peremptory command to forbear, which his lordship not only refused obeying but forthwith joined Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, in the great insurrection then incited by that nobleman for the redress of certain grievances and the banishment of the Spencers. In his proceeding, however, he eventually lost his life, being run through the body by a soldier at the battle of Boroughbridge, in Yorkshire, where his party received so signal a defeat on 16 March, 1321. The earl had issue five surviving sons and two surviving daus., viz., John, Humphrey, Edward, William, Humphrey, Alianore, and Margaret. The earl was s. by his eldest son, Sir John de Bohun, K.B. [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]

Humphrey married Elizabeth Princess Of England Princess Of England, daughter of King Edward I Of England and Princess Leonor, on 14 Nov 1302 in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England.¹ (Elizabeth Princess Of England Princess Of England was born on 7 Aug 1282 in Rhuddlan Castle, Flintshire, Wales,¹ died on 5 May 1316 in Quendon, , Essex, England ¹ and was buried on 23 May 1316 in Walden Abbey, Hartfordshire, England.)