Humphrey VI de Bohun , Governor of Winchester 
Humphrey VI de was born in 1225 in Herfordshire, Essex, England. Humphrey VI de's father was Humphrey V de Bohun , 2nd Earl Hereford&Essex and his mother was Maud d' Eu. His paternal grandparents were Henry de Bohun , 1st Earl of Hereford, MCS and Maud FitzGeoffrey , Countess of Essex. He had a sister named Alice de. He was the older of the two children. He had a half-sister named Eleanor de. He died at the age of 42 on August 27th, 1267 in (dvp).General Notes
Humphrey de Bohun VI, died 27 Aug 1265, dvp, never held title; married (1) Eleanor de Braoise, daughter of Eva Marshal. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Humphrey, a very distinguished person amongst the rebellious barons in the reign of Henry III. In the 47th of that monarch [1263] he was excommunicated, with Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and others, for plundering divers churches and committing sacrilege. He was afterwards one of the commanders of the battle at Lewes, where the king was made prisoner, and was constituted governor of Goodrich and Winchester Castles. In the year following, he commanded the infantry at the battle of Evesham where he fell into the hands of the royalists and was sent prisoner to Beeston Castle in Cheshire, where he soon afterwards died, leaving issue, by his wife Eleanor, dau. and co-heir of William de Braose of Brecknock, and co-heir of her mother Eve, one of the five daus. and co-heirs of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57, Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, and High Constables of England]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1176 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.01 Jun 1220 in On a pilgrimage to Holy Land
- b.1208 in Hungerford, Essex, England d.24 Sep 1275
- b.~ 1185 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.27 Aug 1236 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England
- b.1225 in Herfordshire, Essex, England d.27 Aug 1267 in (dvp)
- b.1208 in La Marche, Poitou, France d.14 Aug 1241
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