Margaret De BOHUN

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJ1-9J. User ID: 1181953.

   General Notes:

Same name deceased elder sister Margaret De BOHUN 1303-11, Buried Exeter Cathedral Devonshire England.

BOOKS
Political History of England 1216-1377, Vol III, T F Tout, AMS Press, 1905, p435: "...William of Wykeham, who had been the guardian of the Earl of March during his long minority, was the most experiencedand wary of the clerical opposition to the lawyers and courtiers of the Lancaster faction. He had an eager and enthusiastic backer in the young and high born Bishop of London, William Courtenay, the son of the Earl of Devon, and through his mother, Margaret Bohun, a great-grandson of Edward I. Office and descent combined to make Bishop Courtenay the custodian of the constitutional tradition, which was equally strong among the great baronial houses of ancient descent and such highlyplaced ecclesiastics as were zealous for the nation as well as for their order..."

INTERN ET
Draper Gedcom
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ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File 8XJ1-9J Born Caldecote, Died Exeter Cathedral.

INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX
IGI Marriage 7217201-30-820427 Hugh DE COURTENAY Mar Margaret DE BOHUN Aug 1325 Powderham Devon England.

   Marriage Information:

Margaret married Earl Hugh De Courtenay DEVON, III, son of 2nd Earl Hugh De Courtenay DEVON, Jr and Agnes SAINT JOHN, on 11 Aug 1325 in Powderham, Devonshire, England. (Earl Hugh De Courtenay DEVON, III was born on 12 Jul 1303 in Okehampton, Devonshire, England, died on 2 May 1371-1377 in Cathedral, Exeter, Devonshire, England and was buried in Cathedral, Exeter, Devonshire, England.)