Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford

Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, called the Good ( * before 1208, † September 24, 1275 ) was an Anglo -Norman aristocrat and hereditary Lord High Constable of England. He was a son of Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, († 1220 ) and Maud de Mandeville.

He was since about 1236 married to Mathilde de Lusignan († August 14, 1241 ), a daughter of Raoul de Lusignan. Their children were:

  • Alice de Bohun (†? ) ∞ with Roger V. de Toeni (House Tosny )

Bohun had already in 1220 inherited the dignity of Earl of Hereford when his father died. 1236 Humphrey has also been appointed the Earl of Essex. In the same year he was appointed by King Henry III. appointed Sheriff of Kent, and was one of the nine godfathers of the Crown Prince Edward Plantagenet. Along with the king, he took the cross in 1250 for the sixth crusade, but unlike the King Humphrey actually traveled to the Holy Land, where now King Louis IX. reigned from France after the defeat in Egypt. After his return in 1253 he began the construction of a St. Augustine's Church in the Braod Street in London.

Humphrey then joined with his son the baronial opposition to Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, against the king, and was involved in the drafting of the Provisions of Oxford 1258. But in 1263 he returned to the King's side, while his son remained on the opposition. In the battle of Lewes in 1264 Humphrey came as the king and the crown prince in captivity Montfort. One year later, but turned the situation after Montfort fell at the Battle of Evesham and the king could again take control. Now, however, it was the younger Humphrey, who fell after the battle into captivity, and only a few weeks later died in his dungeon in Beeston Castle.

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