Sir Frank de Bohun of Midhurst

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 14 September 1273.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Watson and by Hope.

Relationships

Father: Savaric de Bohun.

This relationship is given by Watson, by Hope, and by the Sussex VCH (4:sub Midhurst).

Mother: Cicely, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter.

This relationship is given by Hope.

Spouse: Sibyl de Ferrers. Married shortly before 21 September 1247.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (2:199), by Watson, and by the Sussex VCH (4:sub Midhurst).

Spouse: Nichole, widow of Bartholomew de la Chapelle.

This relationship is given by Watson, by Hope, and by the Sussex VCH (4:sub Midhurst).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Sir John de Bohun (1249 - 28 September 1284) married Joan de la Chapelle.

Thomas de Bohun (living 1273).

Isabel (or Cicely) de Bohun married Sir William d’Autrey (de Alta Ripa).

Evidence

Sir Frank’s inquisition post mortem:

Franco alias Francius de Boun.

Writ (missing).

Extent, Saturday after St. Denis, 1 Edw. I.

Dorset.

Storemenistre. Land, worth 10l. yearly, held by the courtesy of England of the inheritance of Sibyl sometime his wife pertaining to the Marshalsey, which Thomas de Boun his son now has.

Sussex.

Midherst. The manor (extent given), including a park called La Cengle.

Fordes. The manor (extent given).

Rustinton. The manor (extent given).

All held of the earl of Arundell in chief by service of 3 knights and one suit at the court of Arundell every three weeks.

Sir John de Boun his son, aged 26, is his next heir.

References

Calendar[s] of Inquisitions Post Mortem. [Public Record Office. Digital versions available at British History Online.]

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).

Hope, W St John, Cowdray and Easebourne Priory. (1919).

'Midhurst', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4, the Rape of Chichester, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1953), pp. 74-80.

Watson, G.W. “The Bohuns of Midhurst” in The Genealogist (New Series v. xxviii) (1912).