1312 - 1360 (48 years)
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Name |
William de Bohun |
Suffix |
1st Earl of Northampton |
Born |
1312 |
Northamptonshire, England |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
16 Sep 1360 |
London, Greater London, England |
Buried |
Walden Abbey, Saffron Walden, Uttlesford, Essex, England |
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 , d. 5 May 1316, Quendon, Essex, England (Age 33 years) |
Family ID |
F25890 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Baroness Elizabeth Badlesmere, b. 1313, Kent, England , d. 8 Jun 1356, London, Greater London, England (Age 43 years) |
Married |
13 Nov 1335 |
England |
Children |
+ | 1. Countess Elizabeth de Bohun, of Arundel, b. 1350, England , d. 3 Apr 1385, England (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 , d. 16 Jan 1373 (Age 31 years) |
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Last Modified |
30 Oct 2017 |
Family ID |
F247 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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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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