Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameHenry DE BOHUN 5th Earl Of Hereford, 24G Grandfather
FatherHumphrey DE BOHUN Constable Of England (~1144-1182)
MotherMargaret Of Huntingdon Countess Of Hereford (~1154-1201)
Spouses
1Maud FITZPIERS Countess Of Essex, 24G Grandmother
FatherGeoffrey FITZPIERS 4th Earl Of Essex (~1162-1213)
MotherBeatrice DE SAY (~1169-~1197)
ChildrenHumphrey (<1208-1275)
Web Notes notes for Henry DE BOHUN 5th Earl Of Hereford
Weis' "Ancestral Roots" (97:27), he was sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford, Hereditary Constable of England, Magna Carta Surety. Died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Essex, p.134).
HENRY de BOHUN, the Surety, was born before 1177. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was so created by the Charter of King John, dated 28 April 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King, on becoming Earl of Hereford he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs, on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office of Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. As he took a prominent part with the Barons against King John, his lands were confiscated, but he received them again at the granting of Magna Carta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Carta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220, and died on the passage 1 June 1220. His body was brought home and buried in the chapter-house of Llanthony Abbey in Gloucestershire.
Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Essex, p.134).
HENRY de BOHUN, the Surety, was born before 1177. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was so created by the Charter of King John, dated 28 April 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King, on becoming Earl of Hereford he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs, on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office of Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. As he took a prominent part with the Barons against King John, his lands were confiscated, but he received them again at the granting of Magna Carta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Carta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220, and died on the passage 1 June 1220. His body was brought home and buried in the chapter-house of Llanthony Abbey in Gloucestershire.