Humphrey de Bohun

Bef 1114 - Bef 1165  (< 51 years)

• Name	Humphrey de Bohun  [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 1114	of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 29 Sep 1165  [3, 4]
  Person ID	I8404	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Humphrey de Bohun,   b. of Bishopstrowe, Wiltshire, England d. Abt 1129
  Mother	Maud of Salisbury   d. 1146
  Family ID	F2947	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret of Hereford   d. Bef 29 Sep 1197
  Children	+ 1. Humphrey de Bohun,   b. Bef 1144, of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England d. 1181 (Age > 37 years)
  Family ID	F3902	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  "In 1130 Humphrey (II) de Bohun still owed relief for his father's land, plus 400 marks for the purchase of a royal stewardship. As steward he witnessed charters of Henry I towards the end of his reign, and also King Stephen's Oxford charter of liberties in 1136. However, he deserted to the Empress Matilda on her arrival in England in 1139 and successfully defended his castle at Trowbridge against the king. In 1144 he received from the empress confirmation of his lands and of his 'stewardship in England and Normandy', with a grant of other estates. He was loyal to the Angevins in the civil war, witnessing as steward both for the empress in the 1140s and for Henry II, before and after his accession as king, between 1153 and 1157. However, during the year 1158 he was deprived of former royal demesne which he was holding in Wiltshire. None of the royal charters he attested can with certainty be dated to 1158 or later, and it may be that he fell out of the king's favour. On the other hand he was present at the promulgation of the constitutions of Clarendon in January 1164. He was dead by Michaelmas 1165, when his son Humphrey (III) de Bohun owed 300 marks as relief." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

  
  

• Sources

  [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.