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Birth:          1176 of Warwick, Warwickshire, England
Death:          1 Jun 1220 England

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_Bohun,_1st_Earl_of_Hereford
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176 – 1 June 1220) was an Anglo-Norman 
nobleman.

He was Earl of Hereford and Hereditary Constable of England from 1199 to 1220.
Lineage[edit]

He was the son of Humphrey III de Bohun and Margaret of Huntingdon, daughter of 
Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, a son of David I of Scotland. His paternal 
grandmother was Margaret of Hereford, eldest daughter of Miles de Gloucester, 1st 
Earl of Hereford and Constable of England. Bohun's half-sister was Constance, 
Duchess of Brittany; his sister by Humphrey III de Bohun and Margaret of Huntingdon 
was Matilda.

Earldom[edit]

The male line of Miles of Gloucester having failed, on the accession of King John of 
England, Bohun was created Earl of Hereford and Constable of England (1199). The 
lands of the family lay chiefly on the Welsh Marches, and from this date the Bohuns 
took a foremost place among the Marcher barons.[1]

Henry de Bohun figured with the earls of Clare and Gloucester among the twenty-five 
barons who were elected by their fellows to enforce the terms of the Magna Carta in 
1215, and was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope.

Marriage and Children[2][edit]

He married Maud de Mandeville (or Maud FitzGeoffrey), daughter of Geoffrey Fitz 
Peter, 1st Earl of Essex. Their children were:
1.Humphrey V de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, married Maud de Lusignan, by whom 
he had at least three children.
2.Henry de Bohun, who died young.
3.Ralph de Bohun.

Later career[edit]

In the civil war that followed the Magna Carta, he was also a supporter of King Louis 
VIII of France and was captured at the Battle of Lincoln in 1217.[1] He died while on 
a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.[3]

Parents
DE BOHUN Humphrey (ABT 1143 - Dec 1181)
OF HUNTINGDON Margaret (1145 - 1201)

Siblings
DE BOHUN Henry (1176 - 1 Jun 1220)

Marriage To FITZ GEOFFREY Maud (BEF 1177 - 27 Aug 1236)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
FITZ PIERS [FITZ PETER] Geoffrey (ABT 1162 - 14 Oct 1213)
DE SAYE Beatrice (ABT 1163 - BEF 19 Apr 1197)

Children by FITZ GEOFFREY Maud BEF 1177 - 27 Aug 1236
DE BOHUN Humphrey (IV) (ABT 1204 - 24 Sep 1275)

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