Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford

Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Northampton, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, KG (25 March 1341 – 16 January 1373)[1] was the son of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, and Elizabeth de Badlesmere, and grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, by Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I. He became heir to the Earldom of Hereford after the death of his childless uncle Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford.

Arms of Sir Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, KG

His wife and the mother of his daughters was Joan Fitzalan, daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel, and Eleanor of Lancaster, whom he married after 9 September 1359.

On his death, his great estates were divided between his two surviving daughters:

Eleanor de Bohun, who married Thomas of Woodstock.
Mary de Bohun, who married Henry Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV of England.
Elizabeth, died young.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford

16. Humphrey de Bohun

17. Eleanor de Braose

18. Enguerrand Ingelram de Fiennes

9. Maud de Fiennes

19. Isabel de Conde

1. Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford

12. Guncelin de Badlesmere

13. Joan FitzBernard

29. Maud de Lacy

Shaw, Wm. A. (1971). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Knights Bachelors. 1. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 3. OCLC 247620448.
Anthony Goodman, The Loyal Conspiracy:The Lords Appellant under Richard II, (The University of Miami Press, 1971), 12.

Hazlitt, William Carew, and Thomas Blount. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors. 4th. London: Ballentine and Company, 1874. ad
Medieval Lands Project on Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford

Political offices
Preceded by Humphrey de Bohun	Lord High Constable 1361–1372	Succeeded by Thomas of Woodstock
Peerage of England
Preceded by William de Bohun	Earl of Northampton 1360–1373	In abeyance Title next held by Henry Bolingbroke
Preceded by Humphrey de Bohun	Earl of Hereford 1361–1373	Extinct or in abeyance or dormant next held as dukedom by Henry Bolingbroke
Preceded by Humphrey de Bohun	Earl of Essex 1361–1373	In abeyance Title next held by Thomas of Woodstock

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