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ALIA Humphrey de Bohun II /Baron Trowbridge/ TITL Les Seigneurs de Bohun
AUTH Jean LeMelletier PUBL Coutances, Arnaud-Bellee, 1978
UCLA Research Library CALN CS 439 D416L45 1978 MEDI Book
TEXT Only two eldest sons Richard & Robert mentioned as old enough to assume inheritance by 1 066.
_FA1 PLAC Steward to William II Rufus.
_FA2 PLAC Benefited from the favor of William II Rufus.
_FA3 PLAC Gave church of Bishop Street in Salisbury (Wiltshire) to Lewes Abbey.
_FA4 PLAC Gave church of Cheleworth to the St. Dennis Priory (Southampton).
TITL Les Seigneurs de Bohun AUTH Jean LeMelletier
PUBL Coutances, Arnaud-Bellee, 1978 UCLA Research Library CALN CS 439 D416L45 1 978
MEDI BookExcerpted from Les Seigneurs de Bohon by Jean LeMelletier, Coutances:
Arnaud-Bellee, 1978: .The sources for this branch of the Bohons, earls of Hereford, Essex, an d Northampton, are all English. The name Bohon was changed to Boun, Boon, Bowne, etc. It wa s later
considered to signify master or boss. Humfridus, Onfroi, and Honfroy are translated as Humph rey. The frequent repetition of the first name Humphrey causes a lot of confusion. The Engli sh begin
their line with the first Humphrey born in Great Britain, who is our Humphrey II. Humphre y II, known as Humphrey the Magnificent or Humphrey the Great, benefitted from the favor of K ing William
Rufus (son of William the Conqueror). His signature is on a number of papers of Henry I. Thu s we can follow him around England (1103-1109), then in Normandy at Avranches (1113) and Roue n (1119),
then in England (1121), back to Rouen (1125), and back to England (1128). Humphrey II gav e the church of Bishop Street in Salisbury (Wiltshire) to the Lewes Abbey (next to Newhaven ) and the church
of Cheleworth to the St. Dennis priory (Southampton). He was a witness at the founding of Sa vigney Abbey by Ralph de Fougeres. Humphrey married Maud (Mathilda or Mahaut, who died 1142) , daughter of
Edward de Salisbury, between 1087 and 1100. The dowry gave him important estates in the Wilt shire area and the barony of Trowbridge. This was the first of a series of marriages which be nefitted the
Bohons. They had a daughter, Maud, and a son, Humphrey III. Humphrey II died around 1129.
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