Elizabeth de Bohun

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 3 April 1385.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given in The Complete Peerage (1:245).

Place of Burial: Lewes, Sussex, England.

The place is given in The Complete Peerage (1:245).

Relationships

Father: William de Bohun (about 1312 - 1360)

This relationship is given in The Complete Peerage (1:244-245). It is recorded in an account of the descendants of the founders of Llanthony Abbey transcribed by Robert Glover (Dugdale 6:1:135).

Mother: Elizabeth Badlesmere.

This relationship is given in The Complete Peerage (1:244-245).

Spouse: Richard FitzAlan, 11th or 4th Earl of Arundel and 9th Earl of Surrey (1346 - 21 September 1397) Marriage contract 28 September 1359. Papal dispensation the same month.

This information comes from The Complete Peerage (1:244-245). Elizabeth probably married Richard at the same time as her brother married Richard’s sister. It is believed that this was an arrangement between the families made to minimize the economic harm caused to them by the marriage of a daughter.

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.)

Eleanor (died 1375) married Robert de Ufford.

Elizabeth (before 1375 - 8 July 1425) married (1) Sir William de Montagu before December 1378; married (2) Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk on 6 or 7 July 1384; married (3) Sir Robert Goushill in 1400 or 1401; married (4) Sir Gerard Usflete by 1408.

Joan (1375 - 14 November 1435) married William Beauchamp, lord of Abergavenny.

Alice married John Cherleton, Lord Cherleton before March 1392. She is alleged to have had an illegitimate child with Cardinal Henry Beaufort, but it is not certain that this is true.

Son

Thomas, 12th Earl of Arundel and 10th Earl of Surrey (13 October 1381 - 13 October 1415) married Brites de Portugal in April 1411.

Margaret (born 1382) married Sir Rowland Lenthall.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Elizabeth de Bohun” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families. [Cawley gives the citation from Dugdale quoted below.]

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Diaz Pascual, Lucia. The de Bohun Dynasty: Power, Identity and Piety 1066-1399. (Ph.D. thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London: 2017).

“Fundatorum Progenies,” Num. II in “Cartae ad Coenobium Lanthoniense spectantes; cujus origo primum in Wallia, postea vero juxta Gloucestriam translatum” in Dugdale, William; Henry J Ellis; Bulkeley Bandinel; Roger Dodsworth; and John Caley. Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales, also of such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries as were any manner connected with religious houses in England. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1817-1830), Vol. 6, pt. 1, page 135..

Et Elizabetha filia Willielmi comitis Northamtoniæ desponsata fuit Richardo filio et hæredi ipsius comitis Arundeliæ.

ELIZABETH de Bohun (-3 Apr 1385, bur Lewes)., in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families. [Cawley is where I found the above citation.]