Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford

Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton, KG (1342 – 16 January 1373) was an important medieval English noble during the reign of King Edward III of England.

Lineage

He was the son of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, and Elizabeth de Badlesmere and thus grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford by Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I. He became heir to his childless uncle Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford.

Inheritance

On his death, his great estates were divided between his two surviving daughters: Mary de Bohun, who married Henry Bolingbroke (the future Henry IV), and Eleanor de Bohun, who married Thomas of Woodstock. Humphrey's third daughter, Elizabeth, had died young.

His wife and the mother of his daughters was Joan Fitzalan, daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster, whom he married after 9 September 1359.

These estates went to the husbands of the daughters of Humphrey.

Henry IV was created Duke of Hereford before he usurped the throne.

References

• Hazlitt, William Carew , and Thomas Blount. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors. 4th. London: Ballentine and Company, 1874. ad
• Medieval Lands Project on Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford

Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Hereford and Essex	Lord High Constable 1361–1372	Succeeded by The Duke of Gloucester
Peerage of England
Preceded by William de Bohun	Earl of Northampton 1360–1373	In abeyance Title next held by Henry Plantagenet
Preceded by Humphrey de Bohun	Earl of Hereford 1361–1373	Extinct
	Earl of Essex 1361–1373	Succeeded by Thomas of Woodstock