Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford

Arms of Sir Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, KG

Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton, KG (25 March 1341 – 16 January 1373) was the son of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton and Elizabeth de Badlesmere, and grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford by Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I. He became heir to the Earldom of Hereford after the death of his childless uncle Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford.

Following King Peter I's visit to England, Humphrey participated in the sack of Alexandria in 1365.

On his death, because he had no son, the estates of the Earls of Hereford should have passed to his cousin Gilbert de Bohun. Due to the power of the Crown, his great estates were divided between his two surviving daughters:

• Eleanor de Bohun, who married Thomas of Woodstock.
• Mary de Bohun, who married Henry Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV of England .
• Elizabeth, 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.

Ancestry

Family of Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford

16. Humphrey de Bohun               8. Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford                       17. Eleanor de Braose               4. Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford                             18. Enguerrand Ingelram de FIENNES               9. Maud de Fiennes                       19. Isabel de Conde               2. William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton                                   20. Henry III of England               10. Edward I of England                       21. Eleanor of Provence               5. Elizabeth of Rhuddlan                             22. Ferdinand III of Castile               11. Eleanor of Castile                       23. Joan, Countess of Ponthieu               1. Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford                                         12. Guncelin de Badlesmere                       6. Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere                             13. Joan FitzBernard                       3. Elizabeth de Badlesmere                                   28. Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester               14. Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond                       29. Maud de Lacy               7. Margaret de Clare                             30. Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly               15. Juliane FitzGerald of Offaly                       31. Maud de Prendergast

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	In abeyance Title next held by Thomas of Woodstock