Humphrey with the beard

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Keats-Rohan states that Humphrey was a Norman from Saint-Georges-le-Bohon, Manche, citing Loyd (p. 16).

Date of Death: by 1093.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 273).

Relationships

Father: Richard I de Mary.

This relationship is given by Le Melletier (p. 9). It is recorded in a charter (destroyed in 1944), quoted by Le Melletier in an appendix.

Mother: Billeheude.

This relationship is also given by Le Melletier (p. 9), and is recorded in the same charter.

Spouse: unknown.

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 Keats-Rohan (pp. 272-273).)

Robert (died before 1093)

Richard de Meri

Humphrey (died about 1123) married Maud, daughter of Edward of Salisbury.

Ingelger

Adela

Evidence

from the charter cited by Le Melletier:

Omnibus qui sunt et qui futuri sunt innotescat quod quidam dives et nobilis vir Umfridus miles dedit et concessit Sancto Martino Cellam de Bohonio quam ipse que fundaverat.

Et inde est carta ejus in hec verba:

Quoniam… Ego Unfridus miseratione divina permotus domum religiosam in feudo meo de Buhun erigere decrevi et monachos ibi posui qui Deo et Sancte Marie in ecclesia Sancti Georgii in perpetuum deserviant, et predictam domum cum omnibus appendiciis suis Sancto Martino Majoris Monasterii dedi libenter et concessi.

Et hec elemosinatio sic Deo inspirante, Domino autem Guilelmo comite favente facta est pro remedio anime mee et Richardi de Meri patris mei defuncti et Bileheldis Matris mee defuncte in octabis Penthecostes coram venerabili patre Gaufrido Constanciensi episcopo benedicente et confirmante coram etiam … abbate Sancti Martini et Arnulfo et Heriberto et Rotgero monachis et quam pluribus aliis quorum his annotantur nomina.

References

“Humphrey of Bohun” on the Open Domesday site.

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People (1999).

Le Melletier, Jean. Les Seigneurs de Bohon: Illustre famille Anglo-Normande originaire du Cotentin (1978).

Loyd, Lewis C. The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families. (1951).