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Personal data Henry de Bohun 1st Earl Hereford 

• Alternative names: 1st Earl of Hereford Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford MCS Henry de Bohun
• He was born in the year 1176 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England.Source 4
• (Bullet) in the year 1215 in MAGNA CHARTA SURETY.
• He died on June 1, 1220 in On a pilgrimage to Holy Land, he was 44 years old.Sources 1, 4
• He is buried in Llanthony-by-Gloucester Priory, Gloucestershire, England.
• A child of Humphrey IV "The Young" de Bohun and Margaret de Huntingdon

Household of Henry de Bohun 1st Earl Hereford

He is married to Maud Fitz Geoffrey,.

They got married about 1197.

Child(ren):

1. Humphrey de Bohun,  1208-1275 

Notes about Henry de Bohun 1st Earl Hereford

Henry de Bohun, Magna Charta Surety 1215, son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and Margaret de Huntingdon, born 1176, died 1 Jun 1220, sheriff of Kent, 1st Earl of Hereford 1200-1290, hereditary Constable of England; married Maud Fitz Geoffrey, died 1236, Countess of Essex, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, died 1213, Earl of Essex, and Beatrix de Say, daughter of William de Say. [Magna Charta Sureties]------------s father. His lordship, taking part with the barons against King John, had his lands sequestered, but they were restored at the signing of Magna Carta, at Runnymede, the earl being one of the twenty-five lords appointed there to enforce the observance of the celebrated charters. His lordship was subsequently excommunicated by the pope and he became a prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in the 1st year of Henry III [1216-17]. He m. Maud, dau. of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex, and eventually heiress of her brother, William de Mandeville, last Earl of Essex of that family, by whom he acquired the honour of Essex and other extensive lordships, ---and had issue, Henry, d. young, Humphrey, and Ralph, and a dau. Margery, who m. Waleran, Earl of Warwick. His lordship d. 1 January 1220 and was s. by his son, Humphrey de Bohun. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57, Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, and High Constables of England]

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