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| Name |
Humphrey de Bohun |
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I |
| Birth |
(Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England)  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
~ 1123 [2] |
| Person ID |
I49258 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
9 Aug 2017 |
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- Humphrey I de Bohun (died c.1123), jure uxoris feudal baron of Trowbridge in Wiltshire,[1] was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. By his lucrative marriage he became "the founder of the fortunes of his family",[2] later prominent in England as Earls of Hereford and Earls of Essex, and for this reason is usually enumerated "Humphrey I" even though following his father he was the second "Humphrey de Bohun" in England.[3] He has even been called Humphrey the Great.[4]
He was the youngest son of Humphrey with the Beard, lord of the manor of Bohun (or Bohon) in Normandy, who had taken part in the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. He married Maud of Salisbury, a daughter of Edward of Salisbury (died 1130),[5] feudal baron of Trowbridge[6] and of Chitterne,[7] both in Wiltshire. Maud brought as her dowry the feudal barony of Trowbridge, whilst Chitterne was inherited by her brother Walter of Salisbury (died 1147). By his wife he had children including:
Humphrey II de Bohun (died 1165), eldest son and heir, feudal baron of Trowbridge. With his mother he founded the Cluniac priory at Monkton Farleigh, to fulfill his deceased father's wishes.
Margaret de Bohun, wife of Walter Fitz Robert, died without children.
Sources
Graeme White, "Bohun, Humphrey (III) de (b. before 1144, d. 1181)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 20 December 2009.
References
Jump up ^ Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.91
Jump up ^ Planchâe
Jump up ^ J. R. Planchâe, The Conqueror and his Companions (London, 1874), II, 65.
Jump up ^ Melville M. Bigelow, "The Bohun Wills," American Historical Review, 1:3 (1896), 415.
Jump up ^ Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.112
Jump up ^ Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.91
Jump up ^ Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.112 [2]
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