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]