Earl Humphrey De Bohun HEREFORD, IX

   Other names for Humphrey were HEREFORD 5th Earl, ESSEX 4th Earl and NORTHAMPTON Earl.

   Ancestral File Number: 84ZR-XJ.

   General Notes:

5th Earl of HEREFORD, 4th Earl of ESSEX, Earl of NORTHAMPTON.

Same name as deceased elder brother Humphrey De BOHUN 1305-10, 84ZR-XJ Died 1361, EBMicro Died 1373.

BOOKS
The Oxford History of England The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485, E F Jacob, Oxford Univ Press
p74: "...Through his wife Henry IV also had a life interest in half the possessions of his father-in-law, Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Essex, Hereford, and Northampton, which were to pass to his son when he died."

A History of the Plantagenets, Vol III, The Three Edwards, Thomas B Costain, 1958, Doubleday & Co
p358: "The original Companions of the Order [of the Garter] were: two princes of the blood, Edward and the Earl of Lancaster...
"It is more interesting and significant to not those who were not included. No relatives of the queen had been invited, none of the younger princes nor the Earl of Kent, a first cousin. Men of inferior stateion had been preferred to such powerful members of the aristocracy as the Bohuns, Clintons, and DeVeres, the earls of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton..."

The Political History of England 1216-1377, Vol III, T F Tout, 1905, AMS Press,
p430: "The estates of Lancaster were annexed to the reigning branch of the royal house by the marriage in 1359 of John of Gaunt, Edward's third surviving son, with Blanche of Lancaster, the heiress of Duke Henry, who became, after hersister Maud's death, the sole inheritor of the duchy of Lancaster. In 1362 John, who had hitherto been Earl of Richmond, yielded up this dignity to the younger John of Montfort, its rightful heir, and was created Duke of Lancaster at the sametime that Lionel was made Duke of Clarence. Ten years after her marriage Blanche died, leaving John a son, Henry of Derby, the future Henry IV, whose wedding, after his grandfather's death, to one of the Bohun co-heiresses brought part of the estates of another great house within the grasp of Edward III's descendants. Moreover, the other Bohun co-heiress became in 1376 the wife of Thomas of Woodstock, the youngest of Edward's sons, the Gloucester of the next reign. The three Bohun earldoms of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton were thus absorbed by the old king's children and grandchildren..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Micropaedia, Vol II, p121, Bohun: "Name of an English family with lands on the Welsh marches, prominent in the 13th and 14th centuries. Arriving from Normandy in the 11th century, the family prospered during the 12th when a member held the office of constable. Henry (died 1220) was created Earl of Hereford in 1200, and later various other members of the family acquired the Earldoms of Essex and Northampton. Humphrey Bohun (died 1373) held all three earldoms conjointly, but his death without male issue ended his line."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 84ZR-XJ.

INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX
IGI Birth T990361-179-0884798 Humphrey De BOHUN Earl of Hereford Father Humphrey De BOHUN Earl of Hereford Mother Elizabeth Princess of ENGLAND 1309 Caldecot Northampton England.

   Marriage Information:

Humphrey married Countess Joan Arundel Bohun HEREFORD, daughter of Earl Richard Fitz Alan ARUNDEL and Eleanor Plantagenet LANCASTER. (Countess Joan Arundel Bohun HEREFORD died in 1419.)