Margaret of Gloucester

Events

Date of Birth: about 1121.

The estimated date is given by Cavell (ODNB).

Date of Death: between October 1197 and October 1198.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cavell (ODNB), who notes that the date 1187 is often mistakenly given. Cavell notes that Margaret is recorded in about May 1194 excusing herself from a court appearance due to illness and that she made her last payment of scutage in the autumn of 1197. Keats-Rohan (p. 480) gives a date of 6 April 1197.

Place of Burial: Llanthony Secunda Priory.

The place is given by Cavell (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Miles of Gloucester, earl of Hereford (died 1143), earl of Hereford.

This relationship is given by Cavell (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 479), and by the Complete Peerage (6:457).

Mother: Sybil de Neufmarché.

This relationship is given by Cavell (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 480).

Spouse: Humphrey de Bohun (died 1165)

This relationship is given by Cavell (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 479/480).

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 and Cawley.)

Humphrey de Bohun (before 1144 - 1181) married Margaret, daughter of Henry of Scotland, earl of Northumberland.

Milo (died young).

Richard (died young).

Matilda married Henry de Oilly.

References

Cavell, Emma. “Bohun, Margaret de (c. 1121 - 1196/7)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

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

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).

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).