Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford

Abt 1176 - 1220  (~ 44 years)

• Name	Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford  [1, 2, 3]
  Suffix	1st Earl of Hereford
  Born	Abt 1176  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1220  [2]
  Notes	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. He was created 1st Earl of Hereford [England] on 28 April 1200. Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176-1220) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. He was Earl of Hereford and Hereditary Constable of England from 1199 to 1220. Lineage He was the son of Humphrey III de Bohun and Margaret of Huntingdon, daughter of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, a son of David I of Scotland. His paternal grandmother was Margaret of Hereford, eldest daughter of Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford and Constable of England. Bohun's half-sister was Constance, Duchess of Brittany. Earldom 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). Henry de Bohun was one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta in 1215, and was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope. Marriage & children He married Maud de Mandeville, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex. Their children were: Humphrey IV de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, married Maud de Lusignan, by whom he had issue. Maud de Bohun, married Henry d'Oilly of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, by whom she had issue. Ralph de Bohun of Hereford, was father to Sir Franco de Bohun of Midhurst who married Sybil de Ferrers, daughter of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby. Later career He was also a supporter of King Louis VIII of France and was captured at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217.
  Person ID	I37	Bosdet Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 May 2013

  
  

  Father	Humphrey de Bohun, III,   b. Bef 1144,   d. Abt Dec 1181  (Age 37 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Margaret of Scotland, Countess of Hereford,   b. Abt 1145,   d. 1201  (Age ~ 56 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	Abt 1171  [3]
  Family ID	F368	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Matilda fitz Geoffrey,   d. 1236
  Children	1. Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford,   b. Abt 1200,   d. 24 Sep 1275, Warwickshire, England  (Age ~ 75 years)
  Family ID	F20	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S174] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_Bohun,_1st_Earl_of_Hereford. [S180] Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy, Alison Weir, (Name: The Bodley Head; Location: London, U.K.; Date: 1999;). [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;).