Earl of Hereford Henry de Bohun 
Henry was born in 1176 in Warwick, England.1 Henry's father was Humphrey de Bohun IV and his mother was Margaret of Huntington Dunkeld. His paternal grandparents were Constable of England Humphrey de Bohun III and Margaret de Gloucester; his maternal grandparents were Prince, Earl of Huntington Henry Caenmore of Scotland and Ada De Warenne. He was an only child. He died due to on Pilgrimage to Holy Land at the age of 44 on June 1st, 1220. He was buried in Lanthony Abbey, England.2 1 General Notes
important participant in estalishment of the Magna Carta
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Henry de Bohun, Magna Charta Surety 1215, son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and Margaret de Huntingdon, born 1176, died 1 Jun 1220, sheriff of Kent, 1st Earl of Hereford 1200-1290, hereditary Constable of England; married Maud Fitz Geoffrey, died 1236, Countess of Essex, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, died 1213, Earl of Essex, and Beatrix de Say, daughter of William de Say. [Magna Charta Sureties]
Note: It is not my error in typing (but probably MCS's); Henry appears to have been Earl of Hereford until 1290, which was 70 years after his death!
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Henry de Bohun, who in reality was the 1st Earl of Hereford of this family, being so created by charter of King John, dated 28 April, 1199, but the constableship he inherited from his father. His lordship, taking part with the barons against King John, had his lands sequestered, but they were restored at the signing of Magna Carta, at Runnymede, the earl being one of the twenty-five lords appointed there to enforce the observance of the celebrated charters. His lordship was subsequently excommunicated by the pope and he became a prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in the 1st year of Henry III [1216-17]. He m. Maud, dau. of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex, and eventually heiress of her brother, William de Mandeville, last Earl of Essex of that family, by whom he acquired the honour of Essex and other extensive lordships, ---and had issue, Henry, d. young, Humphrey, and Ralph, and a dau. Margery, who m. Waleran, Earl of Warwick. His lordship d. 1 January 1220 and was s. by his son, Humphrey de Bohun. [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]
Title: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
Page: 18-1, 160-4
Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
Page: 1378
Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Page: 97-27
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0935
- b.1037 in Gloucester, England d.1113
- d.1060
- b.1070 in Tatterford, Norfolk, England d.1131
- b.0968 in Fecamp, Normandy, France d.02 Jan 1052 in Eu, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France
- b.1032 in Eu, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France
- b.0992 in Harcourt-de-Caileville, Brionne, Eure, Normandy d.26 Jan 1058 in Abbey of St. Pierre-sur-Dives
- b.1109 in Gloucestershire, England d.06 Apr 1187 in England
- b.1033 in Roumare, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France d. in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.1060 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1130 in Salsbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.1038 in France
- b.1093 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1142
- b.1045 in Crick, Monmouthshire, Wales d.1086
- b.1072 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1130 in Crick, Derbyshire, England
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- b.1143 in Gloucestershire, England d.1182
- b.1043 in Pitres, Normandy, France d.1100 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1065 in Gloucestershire, England d.1129 in England
- b.1045
- b.1092 in Gloucestershire, England d.24 Dec 1143 in Llanthonu Priory, Gloucester
- b.1069
- b.1126 in Gloucester, England
- b.1018 in Neufmarche, France
- b.1070 in Neufmarche, France d.1093 in Aberhonwy, Breconshire, Wales
- b.1030 in St.-Valery-en-Caux, Normandie
- b.1090 in Aberhonwy, Breconshire, Wales d.1143 in Gloucestershire, England
- b.1035 in Arwystle, Herefordshire, England d.1080 in Richard's Castle, Ludlow, Herefordshire, England
- b.1079 in Herefordshire, England
- b.1057 in Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales d.1153
- b.1176 in Warwick, England d.01 Jun 1220
- b.1013 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.14 Aug 1040 in Iona, Elgin, Scotland
- b.1031 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- b.1009 d.1040
- b.1085 in Scotland d.23 May 1153 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, England
- b.1017 d.1057
- b.1045 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
- d.1066
- b.1114 in Huntingtonshire, Scotland d.12 Jun 1152 in Huntingtonshire, Scotland
- b.1005 in Denmark d.1055 in York, Yorkshire, England
- b.1036 in Northumberland, England d.31 May 1085 in Winchester, England
- b.1015 in Bernicia, Nothumbria, England d.1045
- b.1072 d.23 Apr 1130
- b.1022 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Artois/Pas-de-Calais, France d.1054 in Lille, Flandres
- b.1054 in Lens, Artois, France d.1086
- b.1029 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermentrude, near Rouen, France
- b.1154 in Hereford, Hereford, England d.1201
- b.1020 in Varenne near Bellencombre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1074
- b.1055 in Bellebcombe, France d.24 Jun 1088 in Pevensey, Sussex, England
- b.1030 in Normandie, France d.1076
- b.1083 in Sussex, England d.11 May 1138 in Lewes, Surrey, England
- b.1025 in Flandres, France d.1053
- b.1055 in Normandie, France d.27 May 1085 in Castle Acre, Norfolk, England
- b.1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.1104 in Huntingdon, England d.1178 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.Apr 1008 in Bourgogne, Burgundy, France d.04 Aug 1060 in Vitry, Brie, France
- b.1057 in France d.18 Oct 1101 in Tarsus, Asia Minor
- b.1036 in Kiev, Ukraine d.1076 in France
- b.1081 in Vermandois, Normandy d.17 Feb 1130 in St. Nicaise, Meulan, France
- b.1028 in Vermandois, France d.1080 in France
- b.1062 in France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1032 in Valois, Bretagne, France d.1080
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Details of Henry's family with Maud FitzGeoffrey
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=tamer&id=I5958&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tamer&id=I7437
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tamer&id=I7437
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