Constable of England Humphrey de Bohun III 
Humphrey was born in 1109 in Gloucestershire, England.1 Humphrey's father was Humphrey (The Great) de Bohun II and his mother was Mahaut de Evereux. His paternal grandparents were Humphrey (with the Beard) de Bohun I and Margaret D'Eu; his maternal grandparents were Sheriff of Salisbury, Earl of Salisbury Edward d'Everaux and Maud FitzHubert. He had a brother and two sisters, named Richard, Ellen and Maud. He died at the age of 78 on April 6th, 1187 in England.1 General Notes
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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]
Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Page: 193-5
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0900 in St. Come du Mont, Normandy
- b.0935
- b.0870
- b.0900
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- b.1037 in Gloucester, England d.1113
- b.0855 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
- b.0880 in St. Sauveur, Normandy, France d.0933
- b.0880
- d.1060
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- b.1070 in Tatterford, Norfolk, England d.1131
- b.0900 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in Picardy, France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Faecamp, Normandie d.20 Nov 0996 in Faecamp, Normandie
- b.0911 in Bretagne
- b.0968 in Fecamp, Normandy, France d.02 Jan 1052 in Eu, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France
- b.0933 in Paris, France
- b.1032 in Eu, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France
- b.0928 in Normandy d.1013
- b.0951 in Normandy, France d.1024
- b.0930 in Normandy
- b.0992 in Harcourt-de-Caileville, Brionne, Eure, Normandy d.26 Jan 1058 in Abbey of St. Pierre-sur-Dives
- b.0953 in Normandy, France
- b.1109 in Gloucestershire, England d.06 Apr 1187 in England
- b.0986 d.1067
- b.1015 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.1004 in Normandy, France d.1051
- b.1033 in Roumare, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France d. in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
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- b.1060 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1130 in Salsbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.1038 in France
- b.1093 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1142
- b.1019 in England
- b.1045 in Crick, Monmouthshire, Wales d.1086
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- b.1072 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1130 in Crick, Derbyshire, England
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Details of Humphrey's family with Margaret de Gloucester
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