Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford

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Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford (also Humphrey X. de Bohun ; * around 1309 - † October 15, 1361 in Pleshey Castle , Essex ) was an English magnate .

Origin and youth

Humphrey de Bohun came from the Anglo-Norman family Bohun . He was born the third son of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Elizabeth , the youngest daughter of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile . His father fell in the Despenser War in 1322 as a rebel against King Edward II in the Battle of Boroughbridge . He was expropriated posthumously . Humphrey's eldest brother John was held in mild detention at Windsor Castle along with two of his younger brothers, possibly including Humphrey . Only after the fall of King Edward II at the end of 1326 were the Bohuns free. John de Bohun got his father's titles and possessions back.

Heir to the title Earl of Hereford

When the young King Edward III. In October 1330 the regime of his mother Isabelle and her lover Roger Mortimer overthrew in a coup d'état, Humphrey and his brothers were among his supporters. After Mortimer was executed, he and his brothers escorted the disempowered Queen of Windsor to Berkhamstead , where she met the king. After the childless death of his older brother John in 1336, Humphrey inherited the family's estates and the titles of Earl of Hereford , Earl of Essex and the office of high constable . Despite his rank, he did not emerge politically or militarily during the Hundred Years' War . He promoted the Augustinian order in England and founded the London convent of the order, in whose church he was buried after his death with a simple funeral of his own choice. Since he died unmarried, his heir became his nephew Humphrey , the eldest son of his younger brother William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natalie Fryde: The tyranny and fall of Edward II, 1321-1326 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003. ISBN 0-521-54806-3 , p. 63.
  2. ↑ Alison Weir: Isabella. She-Wolf of France, Queen of England . Pimlico, London 2006, ISBN 0-7126-4194-7 , p. 341.
  3. ↑ Alison Weir: Isabella. She-Wolf of France, Queen of England . Pimlico, London 2006, ISBN 0-7126-4194-7 , p. 352.
  4. ^ Lesley A Coote: Prophecy and public affairs in later medieval England . York Medieval Press, Woodbridge 2000. ISBN 1-903153-03-4 , p. 139.
predecessor Office successor
John de Bohun Lord High Constable
Earl of Hereford
Earl of Essex
1336-1361 		Humphrey de Bohun
personal data
SURNAME Bohun, de Humphrey, 6th Earl of Hereford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Humphrey de Bohun, 5th Earl of Essex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English magnate and Lord High Constable of England
DATE OF BIRTH around 1309
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1361
Place of death Pleshey Castle , Essex