Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (* 1176, † June 1, 1220 ) was an Anglo -Norman aristocrat and hereditary Lord High Constable of England. He was the son of Humphrey III. de Bohun († 1181 ), Lord High Constable, and Margaret of Huntington. Mother's side he was a grandson of King David I of Scotland and a half-brother of the Duchess Constance of Brittany.
He was married to Matilda ( Maud ) de Mandeville († 1236 ), a daughter of Geoffrey FitzPeter, 1st Earl of Essex. Your dowry was the manor Wheat Hurst in Gloucestershire. Their children were:
- Humphrey de Bohun († 1275 ), 2nd Earl of Hereford and Lord High Constable
- And Henry and Ralph
From his father Bohun inherited the estate in Trowbridge Wiltshire and the Office of the Royal Constable. On April 28, 1200 he was appointed by King John to the Earl of Hereford. His maternal grandmother was a descendant of Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford.
Despite these fees, he joined in 1215 the rebellion of the barons, which forced the king to sign the Magna Carta. To this end, he was named one of the twenty-five barons, who should monitor compliance with the Charter. The subsequent Revisionsbestrebung the king led to the outbreak of the "First Baron 's War ," with his comrades Bohun was excommunicated by the Pope on December 16, 1215, his estates were confiscated. Consequently, he supported the claim to the throne of the French Prince Louis, to which he remained faithful even after the death of King John. With the defeat at the Battle of Lincoln ( May 20, 1217 ), however, he fell into the captivity of the royalist party and Prince Ludwig gave his claims on. In a general reconciliation Bohun be subjected to the new king, Henry III. and was reimbursed its possessions.
As penance for his excommunication itself Bohun involved from 1219 in the crusade of Damietta (fifth crusade ) and died there in 1220 in Egypt. His body was transferred to the Llanthony Secunda Priory in Gloucester.