Humphrey de Bohun (died 1265)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 27 October 1265.

Place of Death: Beeston Castle, near Chester.

Humphrey died in captivity. The date and place are given by Vincent (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (6:463). Moor (1:107) gives the date as 27 August 1265.The death is recorded in Dugdale (6:1:135) in an extract from the chronicle of the Abbey of Llanthony Secunda: “Humfredus sextus supradictus, avus domini Oliveri de Bohun, fuit captus in bello de Evesham, quarto die Aug. anno Domini MCCLXV. et missus ad castellum de Bystone juxta Cestriam, in quo castello moriebatur in vigilia sanctorum Simonis et Judae proxima sequente post dictum bellum, in custodia regis, vivente patre suo, et jacet in abbatia de Cumbremere.” This supports the October death date. (The feast of St Simon and Jude is 28 October.)

Place of Burial: Combermere Abbey.

The place is given by the Complete Peerage (6:463). It is recorded in the extract from Dugdale given above.

Relationships

Father: Humphrey de Bohun (died 1275).

This relationship is given by Vincent (ODNB), by Waugh (ODNB), and by the Complete Peerage (6:462).

Mother: Matilda de Lusignan.

This relationship is given by Cawley. The relationship is recorded in Dugdale (6:1:135) in an extract from the chronicle of the Abbey of Llanthony Secunda: “Henricus quintus prædictus, qui vocabatur tempore so Bonus Comes Hereford, desponsavit primò Matildem filiam comitis de Ewe in Normannia. De quibus procreati fuerunt dominus Humfredus sextus de Bohun, dominus de Brekenok, et quatuor filiæ…” “Henricus” is a mistake for “Humfredus”.

Spouse: Eleanor de Briouze.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (6:462) and by Holden. The relationship is recorded in Dugdale (6:1:135) in an extract from the chronicle of the Abbey of Llanthony Secunda: “Henricus quintus prædictus, qui vocabatur tempore so Bonus Comes Hereford, desponsavit primò Matildem filiam comitis de Ewe in Normannia. De quibus procreati fuerunt dominus Humfredus sextus de Bohun, dominus de Brekenok, et quatuor filiæ…” “Henricus” is a mistake for “Humfredus”.

Spouse: Joan de Quincy (about 1245 - 25 November 1283).

This relationship is given by Moor (1:107) and by the Complete Peerage (6:463).

Children (by Eleanor):

(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. “Humphrey [VI] de Bohun” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families. [Where I have found several of the citations]

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).

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]

Moor, Charles. Knights of Edward I (London: Harleian Society 1929-1932).

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).