Eleanor de Briouze

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: William (V) de Briouze (died 1230).

This relationship is given by Holden and by Rees. Cawley cites Dugdale (5:271, 6:1:134-135).

Mother: Eva Marshal, daughter of William Marshal, earl of Pembroke.

This relationship is given by Holden and by Rees. Cawley cites Dugdale (5:271, 6:1:134-135).

Spouse: Humphrey de Bohun (died 1265).

This relationship is given by Holden and by Rees. Cawley notes that the relationship is recorded in Dugdale (6:1:135) in an extract from the chronicle of the Abbey of Llanthony Secunda: “Humfridus sextus supradictus, post mortem matris suae, vivente adhuc patre suo, desponsavit Alianorum de Brewes, haeredem de Brekenoke, praedicta.” Eleanor is also named as Humphrey’s wife in his inquisition post mortem (CIPM C. Hen. III. File 34. (8). no. 654). Eleanor is also named as Humphrey’s wife in Dugdale (5:271) (the Abbey of Tintern).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Humphrey de Bohun (about 1249 - 31 December 1298) married Matilda de Fiennes in 1275.

Gilbert de Bohun.

Eleanor de Bohun (died 20 February 1314) married Robert de Ferrers, earl of Derby on 26 June 1269.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Eleanor de Briouse” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Dugdale, William. Monasticon Anglicanum (London: 1817-1840) 6 Volumes.

Holden, Brock.W. Lords of the Central Marches: English Aristocracy and Frontier Society, 1087-1265. (Oxford University Press, 2008).

“Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry III, File 34”, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 1: Henry III (1904), pp. 203-208. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=108030

[accessed 10 June 2014]

Rees, W. "The Medieval Lordship of Brecon", Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmordorion (1915-16), 165-225.

Vincent, Nicholas. “Bohun, Humphrey (IV) de, second earl of Hereford and seventh earl of Essex (d. 1275)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Waugh, Scott L. “Bohun, Humphrey (VI) de, third earl of Hereford and eighth earl of Essex (c. 1249 - 1298)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).