Humphrey de Bohun (before 1144 - 1181)

Constable to Henry II

Events

Date of Birth: before 1144.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by White (ODNB).

Date of Death: towards the end of 1181.

Place of Death: while a member of an army led into France.

The date and place are given by White (ODNB). Keats-Rohan (p. 332) gives circa 1187.

Place of Burial: Llanthony (Secunda) Priory, Gloucestershire.

The place is given by White (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Humphrey de Bohun (died 1164/5).

This relationship is given by White (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 332). The relationship is recorded in a history of the descendants of the founders of the Abbey of Llanthony given in Dugdale (6:134).

Mother: Margaret of Gloucester (about 1121 - 1196/7).

This relationship is given by White (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 332). The relationship is recorded in a history of the descendants of the founders of the Abbey of Llanthony given in Dugdale (6:134).

Spouse: Margaret (died 1201), daughter of Henry of Scotland, earl of Northumberland. Married between February 1171 and Easter 1175.

This relationship is given by White (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 332). The relationship is recorded in a history of the descendants of the founders of the Abbey of Llanthony given in Dugdale (6:134).

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 White.)

Matilda de Bohun

Henry de Bohun (about 1175 - 1220) married Maud, daughter of Geoffrey fitz Peter, first earl of Essex.

References

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

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

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

White, Graeme. “Bohun, Humphrey (III) de, (b. before 1144, d. 1181)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).