Humphrey III Baron de Bohun , Lord Hereford 
Humphrey III Baron de was born in 1120 in Gloucestershire, England. Humphrey III Baron de's father was Humphrey II Baron de Bohun and his mother was Maud Devereux. His paternal grandfather was Humphrey 1st Baron de Bohun; his maternal grandparents were Edward of Salisbury , Count of Evereux and Maud FitzHubert. He had a brother named Richard de. He was the older of the two children. He died at the age of 67 on April 6th, 1187 in England.General Notes
Humphrey de Bohun was steward and sewer to King Henry I. This feudal lord m. Margery, dau. of Milo de Gloucester, Earl of Hereford, Lord High Constable of England, and sister and co-heiress of Mable, last Earl of Hereford of that family. At the instigation of which Milo, he espoused the cause of the Empress Maud (Matilda) and her son against King Stephen, and so faithfully maintained his allegiance that the empress, by her especial charter, granted him the office of steward and sewer, both in Normandy and England. In the 20th Henry II, this Humphrey accompanied Richard de Lacy (justice of England) into Scotland with a powerful army to waste that country; and was one of the witnesses to the accord made by William, King of Scots, and King Henry as to the subjection of that kingdom to the crown of England. He d. 6 April 1187, and was survived by his son, Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford. [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.~ 1035 in St Georges de Bohon, Manche, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1054 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d.1113
- b.~ 1037 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1080 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d.1129
- b.1120 in Gloucestershire, England d.06 Apr 1187 in England
- b.1033 in Rosmar, Normandy, France
- b.1060 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1130 in Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1038 in France
- b.1093 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1142
- b.~ 1045 in Crick, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.1070 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
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‌Humphrey III Baron de and Margaret de were married in a religious ceremony about 1143 in Gloucestershire, England. They had a son and a daughter, named Humphrey IV "The Young" de and Margery de.
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Children
Humphrey IV "The Young" de Bohun
Humphrey IV "The Young" de was born in 1143 in Gloucestershire, England. He died at the age of 39 in 1182.
Margery de Bohun
Margery de was born about 1146 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. She died before 1196.
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