William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton

Male 1312 - 1360  (48 years)


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  • Name William de Bohun 
    Suffix 1st Earl of Northampton 
    Born 1312  Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 16 Sep 1360  London, Greater London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Walden Abbey, Saffron Walden, Uttlesford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7564  adkinshorton
    Last Modified 18 Nov 2017 

    Father Humphrey VII de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford,   b. 1276,   d. 16 Mar 1321/22  (Age 46 years) 
    Mother Princess Elizabeth PLANTAGENET, of Rhuddlan,   b. 7 Aug 1282, Rhuddlan Castle, Denbigshire, Wales, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 May 1316, Quendon, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years) 
    Family ID F25890  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Baroness Elizabeth Badlesmere,   b. 1313, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jun 1356, London, Greater London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years) 
    Married 13 Nov 1335  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Countess Elizabeth de Bohun, of Arundel,   b. 1350, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Apr 1385, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 35 years)
     2. Sir Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton,   b. 24 Mar 1341, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jan 1373  (Age 31 years)
    Last Modified 30 Oct 2017 
    Family ID F247  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton, was born about 1312. He was a personage of great eminence in the turbulent times in which he lived, and one of the gallant heroes of Cressy. In the parliament held at London, in the 11th year of Edward III., upon the advancement of the Black Prince to the dukedom of Cornwall, he was elected Earl of Northampton, on March 17, 1337, and from that period he 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, etc., and he was finally elected as a Knight of the Garter. He married Elizabeth Badlesmere, daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere and his wife Margaret Clare. Elizabeth was one of the co-heirs of her brother Giles de Badlesmere, and widow of Edmund de Mortimer.


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