Margery (Margaret) de Bohun , Heiress of Bisley 
Margery (Margaret) de was born about 1252 in Bisley, Gloucestershire, England. Margery (Margaret) de's father was Humphrey VI de Bohun , Governor of Winchester and her mother was Eleanor de Braose. Her paternal grandparents were Humphrey V de Bohun , 2nd Earl Hereford&Essex and Maud d' Eu; her maternal grandparents were William 6th Baron de Braose , Lord Abergavenny and Eva Marshal. She had a brother and a sister, named Humphrey VII de and Eleanor (Alianore) de. She was the youngest of the three children.General Notes
Margery (or Eleanor), heiress of 1/4 hundred of Bisley, co. Gloucester. [Ancestral Roots]
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He [Theobald de Verdun] married, before 6 November 1276, Margery (c). He died 24 August 1309 at Alton, aged about 61, and was buried 13 October in Croxden Abbey, in that co. [Complete Peeerage XII/2:249-50, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(c) By right of his wife he held 1/4 of the hundred of Bisley, co. Gloucester.
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From: Douglas Richardson (royalancestry@@msn.com)
Subject: Margery de Bohun, wife of Theobald de Verdun (Was: A New Bohun Daughter Discovered)
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Date: 2002-01-11 15:41:47 PST
Dear Newsgroup ~
Today I had the opportunity to further research the matter of Theobald de Verdun's wife, Margery.
VCH Gloucester 11 (1976): 12 indicates about 1170, Hugh, Earl of Chester, granted the fee of Bisley, co. Gloucester to Humphrey de Bohun, son-in-law of Miles of Hereford. Humphrey was to hold the property for the service of 3 knights fees out of the 5 owed for the fee.
VCH Gloucester 11 (1976): 1 further shows that in 1274, the Hundred Rolls show that the hundred of Bisley was held by Peter Corbet (in right of his wife, Joan), Tibbald le Botiler (in right of his wife, Margery), and Richard le Eyer. Half of the profits belonged to Peter, the other half was shared equally by Tibbald and Richard.
In 1303, a total of 2 3/4 fees in Bisley and Stroud were held from the earl of Hereford. including parts of Bisley manor, which fees were in the possession respectively of Joan Corbet, Tibbald de Verdun, and Richard of Bisley [Reference: Feudal Aids, 2 (1900): 251].
In 1309, at Theobald de Verdun's death, it was recorded that he owned a capital messuage and lands at Bisley, co. Gloucester "in free marriage of the earl of Hereford by service of rendering 1 lb. cummin yearly." [Reference: Cal. IPM, vol. 5 (1908): 96].
The above information, taken together with the abstract of the legal case I posted earlier today, make it clear that Theobald de Verdun's wife, Margery, was the daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, and that she had a 1/4 share of the manor and hundred of Bisley, co. Gloucester in free marriage. Also, it appears that Margery was married previously to a certain Robert de W., who evidently died prior to 1274, without male issue. For an abstract of the legal case, see my earlier post which is shown below.
As to which Humphrey de Bohun was Margery's father, it appears that the correct Humphrey is the Humphrey de Bohun, born say 1230, died 1265, who married before 1249 Eleanor, daughter of William de Breuse, lord of Abergavenny, by Eve, daughter of William le Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. This Humphrey was never Earl of Hereford, he having died in his father's lifetime. This would explain why Theobald de Verdun's statements refer to him only as "one Humphrey" and not as "Humphrey, Earl of Hereford."
It is unusual that a high born marriage for a Bohun woman should have escaped the attention of so many people prior to this time. This situation appears to have been caused by the tangled history of the hundred and manor of Bisley, co. Gloucester, which properties had multiple owners. It is fortunate indeed that a record of Theobald de Verdun's statements regarding his wife's parentage were preserved in the Yearbooks of Edward I and that his inquisition clearly show that he acquired the property at Bisley in free marriage, held under the Earls of Hereford.
Given that some 40 odd immigrants descend from Theobald de Verdun and his wife, Margery de Bohun, this new discovery doubtless affects the ancestry of a good many people here in the newsgroup.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
E-mail: royalancestry@@msn.com
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- b.1143 in Gloucestershire, England d.1182
- b.1176 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.01 Jun 1220 in On a pilgrimage to Holy Land
- b.1114 in Scotland d.12 Jun 1152 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.1144 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England d.1201 in Richmond, North Ride Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1122 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.1178 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.1208 in Hungerford, Essex, England d.24 Sep 1275
- b.~ 1134 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England d.>08 May 1198 in Pleshey, Essex, England
- b.< 1163 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.14 Oct 1213 in Shouldham Priory, Downham, Norfolk, England
- b.1138 in Costow, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1185 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.27 Aug 1236 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1160 in Kimbolton, St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England d.<19 Apr 1197
- b.~ 1140 in Kimbolton, St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.1225 in Herfordshire, Essex, England d.27 Aug 1267 in (dvp)
- b.~ 1118 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou, France d.~ 1173 in In captivity (11 Apr 1169) while on Crusade in Syria
- b.~ 1150 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou, France d.1224
- b.1120 in Taillebourg, Saintonge, France d.>11 Apr 1169
- b.~ 1178 in La Marche, Poitou, France d.01 May 1219 in Shenton, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1135 in Limoges, Haute Vienne, Limousin, France d.< 1188
- b.~ 1155 in Limoges, Haute Vienne, Limousin, France d.~ 1187 in Jaffa, Holy Lands
- b.1208 in La Marche, Poitou, France d.14 Aug 1241
- b.1155 in Leicestershire, England d.11 MAR 1182/83 in Hastings, Sussex, England
- b.1180 in Shenton, Leicestershire, England d.15 May 1246
- b.1130 in Normandy, France d.07 May 1202 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1164 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.~ 1212
- b.1137 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1252 in Bisley, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1112 in Abergavenny, Over Gwent, Monmouthshire, Wales d.< 1193 in Weobley, Herefordshire, England
- b.1153 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.09 Aug 1211 in Corbeil, Marne, Champagne, France
- b.~ 1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1178 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.<09 Jun 1228 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
- b.1117 in Horton, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England d.1190 in Beckley, Headington, Oxfordshire, England
- b.1155 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England d.1210 in Corfe, Windsor, England
- b.1128 in Domart-en-Ponthieu, Somme, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1197 in Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales d.02 May 1230 in Hanged by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales after intrigues w/ his wife
- b.~ 1145 in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire, England d.1226 in Little Somborne, Hampshire, England
- b.~ 1183 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.< 1215
- b.~ 1160 in Gilsland, Irthington, Cumberland, England d.24 MAR 1216/17 in Stoke, Devonshire, England
- b.1230 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales d.> 1252 in Llanthony Inn, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1067 in Cheddar, Axbridge, Somerset, England d.< 1130 in Winterbourne Monkton, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
- b.< 1109 in Winterbourne Monkton, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England d.<29 Sep 1165 in Rockley, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1086 in Venoix near Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.1146 in Rockley, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England d.14 May 1219 in Caversham, Henley, Oxfordshire, England
- b.1100 in Chitterne, Wiltshire, England d.1147 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1127 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun
- b.1100 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England d.1147 in Near The Choir, Braenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.1194 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.< 1246 in England
- b.21 Sep 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.6 JAN 1147/48 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.~ 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1098 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.6 JAN 1147/48 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1100 in Leinster, Ireland d.1 JAN 1170/71 in Ferns, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1141 in Ireland d.> 1186 in Waterford, Ireland
- b.1114 in Leinster, Ireland d.1191
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