William de Bohun , 1st Earl of Northampton, KG 
William de was born about 1312 in Caldecot, Northamptonshire, England. William de's father was Humphrey VIII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex and his mother was Elizabeth Plantagenet , Princess of England. His paternal grandparents were Humphrey VII de Bohun , Earl Hereford & Essex and Maud de Fiennes; his maternal grandparents were Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks" King O England and Eleanor Princess of Castile. He had two sisters named Eleanor de and Margaret de. He was the youngest of the three children. He died on September 16th, 1360 in Caldecot, Northamptonshire, England.General Notes
Sir William de Bohun, KG, born c1312, died Sep 1360, fought at Crecy, Earl of Northampton 16 Mar 1336/7; married 1335/8 Elizabeth Badlesmere. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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In 1357 Edward III conferred the Earldom of Northampton on his cousin and leading adviser William de Bohun, youngest son by a daughter of Edward I of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hertford and Essex. The new Earl was occupied in fighting the Scots in the north of England, of which he became Constable in 1338, and the French in the opening stages of the Hundred Years War. William's son Humphrey succeeded him but died without male issue in Jan 1372/3, when the Earldom expired. [Burke's Peerage, Northampton, Earldom & Marquessate, p. 2108]
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William, a personage of great eminence in the turbulent times in which he lived and one of the gallant heros of Cressy. In the parliament held at London in the 11th Edward III [1338], upon the advancement of the Black Prince to the dukedom of Cornwall, he was created Earl of Northampton (17 March, 1337), and from that period his lordship appears the constant companion in arms of the martial Edward, and his illustrious son. At Cressy he was in the second battalia of the English army, and he was frequently engaged in the subsequent wars of France and Scotland. He was entrusted at different periods with the most important offices, such as ambassador to treat of peace with hostile powers, commissioner to levy troops, &c., and he was finally honoured with the Garter. His lordship m. Elizabeth, dau. of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, one of the co-heirs of her brother Giles, and widow of Edmund de Mortimer, by whom he had issue, Humphrey, 2nd Earl of Northampton, of whom hereafter, as successor to his uncle in the earldom of Hereford and Essex and constableship of England; and Elizabeth, m. to Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel. He d. in 1360. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57-58, 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.~ 1178 in La Marche, Poitou, France d.01 May 1219 in Shenton, Leicestershire, England
- b.1208 in La Marche, Poitou, France d.14 Aug 1241
- b.1180 in Shenton, Leicestershire, England d.15 May 1246
- b.~ 1249 in Herefordshire, England d.31 Dec 1298 in Pleshey Castle, Essex, England
- b.1178 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.<09 Jun 1228 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
- b.~ 1197 in Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales d.02 May 1230 in Hanged by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales after intrigues w/ his wife
- b.~ 1183 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.< 1215
- b.1230 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales d.> 1252 in Llanthony Inn, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1146 in Rockley, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England d.14 May 1219 in Caversham, Henley, Oxfordshire, England
- b.1194 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.< 1246 in England
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1276 in Pleshey Castle, Essex, England d.16 MAR 1321/22 in Battle of Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England (slain)
- b.1147 in Martock, Somerset, England d.1189 in Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.1168 in Wendover Manor, Buckinghamshire, England d.1241 in Holy Lands
- b.1151 in Carshalton, Epsom, Surrey, England d.1223
- b.1210 in Tolleshunt, Essex, England d.1265 in Wendover Manor, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1138 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France d.19 Sep 1200 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1177 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 1145 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France d.Oct 1200 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1243 in Wendover Manor, Buckinghamshire, England d.06 Nov 1298
- b.~ 1144 in Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1177 in Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1148 in Blanchland, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1213 in Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1312 in Caldecot, Northamptonshire, England d.16 Sep 1360 in Caldecot, Northamptonshire, England
- b.5 MAR 1132/33 in Le Mans, Maine, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1123 in Chateau de Belin-Beliet, Gironde, Aquitaine, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Touraine, France
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hampshire, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1160 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.16 Jun 1202 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France
- b.1188 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevrault Abbey, Maine-et-Loire, Pays-de-la-Loire, France
- b.~ 1170 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-The-Sand near Carlisle, Cumberland, England
- b.1177 in Barcelona, Spain d.FEB 1208/09 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
- b.1198 in Aragon, Spain d.19 Aug 1245 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France
- b.~ 1180 in Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence, France d.1223 in (as a nun)
- b.1217 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.25 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.20 May 1171 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.1 MAR 1232/33 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.~ 1198 in Chambery, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France d.Dec 1266 in Aragon, Spain
- b.~ 1180 in Genf, Geneva, Helvetiz, Switzerland d.13 Apr 1236 in Pierre-Chatel, Isere, France
- b.Aug 1282 in Rhuddlan Castle, Flintshire, Wales d.05 May 1316 in Quendon, Essex, England
- b.1137 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.22 Aug 1188 in Benavente, Zamora, Castile, Spain
- b.15 Aug 1166 in Zamora, Leon, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villaneuva de Sarria, Lugo, Spain
- b.~ 1149 in Coimbra, Portugal d.16 Oct 1178 in Villadoiid, Spain
- b.19 Aug 1201 in Leon, Spain d.30 May 1252 in Seville, Spain
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Coimbra, Portugal d.06 Oct 1214 in Burgos, Castile, Spain
- b.~Jun 1180 in Burgos, Castile, Spaine d.08 Nov 1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spaine
- b.13 Oct 1161 in Domfront, Normandy, France d.25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Brugos, Spain
- b.1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.28 Nov 1290 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1138 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France d.19 Sep 1200 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1172 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France d.21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1145 in Clermont-en-Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France d.Oct 1200 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1216 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France d.15 MAR 1278/79 in Abbeville, France
- b.1179 in Ponthieu, Somme, Picardy, France d.04 Oct 1221 in Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France
- b.17 Apr 1199 in Aumale, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.Sep 1250 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1170 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France d.1220 in Castile, Spain
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