Humphrey de Bohun, III

Male Bef 1144 - Abt 1181  (37 years)


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  • Name Humphrey de Bohun, III  [1, 2
    Suffix III 
    Born Bef 1144  [3
    Gender Male 
    Died Abt Dec 1181  [3
    Buried Hempsted, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Notes 
    • Humphrey III de Bohun (before 1144 - ? December 1181) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and general who served Henry II as Constable. He was the son of Humphrey II de Bohun and Margaret of Hereford, the eldest daughter of the erstwhile constable Miles of Gloucester. He had succeeded to his father's fiefs, centred on Trowbridge, by 29 September 1165, when he owed three hundred marks as relief. From 1166 onwards, he held his mother's inheritance, both her Bohun lands in Wiltshire and her inheritance from her late father and brothers.

      As his constable, Humphrey sided with the king during the Revolt of 1173-1174. In August 1173, he was with Henry and the royal army at Breteuil on the continent and, later that same year, he and Richard de Lucy led the sack of Berwick-upon-Tweed and invaded Lothian to attack William the Lion, the King of Scotland, who had sided with the rebels. He returned to England and played a major role in the defeat and capture of Robert Blanchemains, the Earl of Leicester, at Fornham. By the end of 1174, he was back on the continent, where he witnessed the Treaty of Falaise between Henry and William of Scotland.

      According to Robert of Torigni, in late 1181 Humphrey joined Henry the Young King in leading an army against Philip of Alsace, the Count of Flanders, in support of Philip II of France, on which campaign Humphrey died. He was buried at Llanthony Secunda.

      Sometime between February 1171 and Easter 1175 Humphrey married Margaret of Huntingdon, a daughter of Henry, Earl of Northumbria, and widow since 1171 of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany. Through this marriage he became a brother-in-law of his enemy, William of Scotland. With Margaret he had a daughter, Matilda, and a son, Henry de Bohun, who in 1187 was still a minor in the custody of Humphrey's mother in England and who was created Earl of Hereford. It has been suggested that Humphrey's widow was the Margaret who married Pedro Manrique de Lara, a Spanish nobleman, but there are discrepancies in this theory.[2]
    Person ID I1299  Bosdet Genealogy
    Last Modified 16 May 2013 

    Father Humphrey de Bohun, II,   d. Abt 1165 
    Relationship Natural 
    Mother Margaret of Gloucester,   b. Abt 1122,   d. 06 Apr 1197, Hempsted, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Married Bef 1139  [3
    Family ID F365  Group Sheet

    Family Margaret of Scotland, Countess of Hereford,   b. Abt 1145,   d. 1201  (Age ~ 56 years) 
    Married Abt 1171  [1
    Children 
     1. Maud de Bohun,   d. Abt 1252
     2. Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford,   b. Abt 1176,   d. 1220  (Age ~ 44 years)
    Family ID F368  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [S179] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed, G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, (Name: Alan Sutton Publishing; Location: Gloucester, U.K.; Date: 2000;).

    2. [S174] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_Bohun,_1st_Earl_of_Hereford.

    3. [S174] Wikipedia.