Humphrey "with a Beard" de Bohun

Male Abt 1056 - Abt 1113  (~ 57 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Humphrey "with a Beard" de Bohun was born about 1056; died about 1113.

    Notes:

    Dominus Humfredus de Bohun, cum barba, qui prius venit cum Willielmo Conquestore in Angliam de Normannia, cognatus dicti Conquestoris... ("Lord Humphrey de Bohun, with the beard, who first came with William the Conqueror to England from Normandy, a relative of the said Conqueror"). – Humphrey being called "with a beard" was first recorded in a chronicle of Llanthony Prima, edited by William Dugdale in the Monasticono Anglicanum (VI. 134)

    Name:
    Also referred to as Humphrey "the Old".

    Humphrey married Billeheude de St. Sauveur. Billeheude (daughter of Neil II DE ST. SAUVEUR and Helen OF NORMANDY) was born about 1045; and died. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. Robert de Bohun  Descendancy chart to this point died before 1113.
    2. 3. Richard de Meri sire de Bohun  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1070; died in 1113.
    3. 4. Humphrey I 'the Great' de Bohun  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1080; died about 1123.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Robert de Bohun Descendancy chart to this point (1.Humphrey1) died before 1113.

    Notes:

    Died:
    Robert predeceased his father.


  2. 3.  Richard de Meri sire de Bohun Descendancy chart to this point (1.Humphrey1) was born in 1070; died in 1113.

  3. 4.  Humphrey I 'the Great' de Bohun Descendancy chart to this point (1.Humphrey1) was born about 1080; died about 1123.

    Notes:

    Humphrey de Bohun II., the Great succeeded his father as lord of Taterford. By order of King William Rufus he married Maud of Evereux, daughter of Edward de Evereux (de Saresbury), progenitor of the ancient Earls of Salisbury, through which marriage he acquired large estates in Wiltshire. He was Sheriff of Wiltshire and Bearer of the Royal Standard in 1120 in the battle of Benneville in Normandy. Humphrey and his wife had children.

    Name:
    By his lucrative marriage to Maud of Salisbury, he became regarded as "the founder of the fortunes of his family". This along with his later prominence in Hereford and Essex, resulted in him traditionally being called Humphrey I, even though his father, Humphrey, Lord of the Manor Bohun, preceded him.

    Humphrey married Mathilda de Evreux about 1119. Mathilda (daughter of Edward de Evreux of Salisbury, High Sheriff of Wiltshire and Maud OF SALISBURY) was born about 1093 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; and died. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 5. Margaret de Bohun  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 6. Humphrey II de Bohun  Descendancy chart to this point died before 29 Sep 1165.


Generation: 3

  1. 5.  Margaret de Bohun Descendancy chart to this point (4.Humphrey2, 1.Humphrey1)

    Margaret married Walter Fitz Robert, 2nd Lord of Little Dunmow, Essex. Walter was born about 1124; died in 1198 in Priory of Austin, Little Dunmow, Essex, England. [Group Sheet]


  2. 6.  Humphrey II de Bohun Descendancy chart to this point (4.Humphrey2, 1.Humphrey1) died before 29 Sep 1165.

    Humphrey married Margaret of Hereford, Constable of England. Margaret (daughter of Milo de Gloucester Fitz Walter, 1st Earl of Hereford and Sybyl de Neufmarch) was born about 1122/23; died on 6 Apr 1197. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 7. Humphrey III de Bohun  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 1144 in England; died in Dec 1181 in France; was buried in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Hempsted, Gloucester, Monmouthshire, England.
    2. 8. Margery de Bohun  Descendancy chart to this point


Generation: 4

  1. 7.  Humphrey III de Bohun Descendancy chart to this point (6.Humphrey3, 4.Humphrey2, 1.Humphrey1) was born before 1144 in England; died in Dec 1181 in France; was buried in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Hempsted, Gloucester, Monmouthshire, England.

    Notes:

    Humphrey de Bohun IV, created Earl of Hereford, was also the hereditary Constable of England, in the right of his mother, if the chronicles of Llanthony are correct.. He married Margaret of Huntingdon, or Margaret of Scotland, daughter of Henry, Prince of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon (son of St. David I, King of Scotland), and his wife, Ada Warren, daughter of William de Warren, Earl of Surrey, and his wife, Isabel Vermandois, and sister of William, King of the Scots, and widow of Conan le Petit, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond. Humphrey was succeeded by his eldest son, Henry.

    Humphrey married Margaret of Huntingdon, Duchess of Brittany. Margaret (daughter of Henry 9TH EARL OF HUNTINGDON, of Scotland and Adelaide DE WARREN) died in 1201. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 9. Henry II "the Surety" de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1176; died on 1 Jun 1220; was buried in Lathony Abbey, Vale of Ewyas, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK.
    2. 10. Matilda de Bohun  Descendancy chart to this point

  2. 8.  Margery de Bohun Descendancy chart to this point (6.Humphrey3, 4.Humphrey2, 1.Humphrey1)

    Margery married 4th Earl of Warwick Waleran de Beaumont. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 11. Henry de Beaumont  Descendancy chart to this point


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