Humphrey III. de Bohun

Humphrey III. de Bohun († 1181 ) was an Anglo -Norman nobleman and Lord High Constable of England. He was a son of Humphrey de Bohun II and his wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford (House Pitres )

From his father Bohun inherited the estate in Trowbridge Wiltshire and after the death of his uncle, Henry de Gloucester to 1163 he took over the office of the Royal Constable. In this role, he was loyal to King Henry II of England and supported this in the suppression of the revolt of the king's sons in the years 1173-1174. Doing so, he led under the Justiciar Richard de Luci the royalist troops to victory against the rebels in battle at Fornham ( October 17, 1173 ). Bohun died in 1181 in France when he a campaign against Count Philip of Flanders led on the side of Henry the Younger, in support of King Philip II Augustus, the protege of the English king. He was buried in Llanthony Secunda Priory in Gloucester

Humphrey de Bohun was married to Margaret of Huntington († 1201), who was a maternal granddaughter of King David I of Scotland and widow of the Duke Conan IV of Brittany. Their son was Henry de Bohun († 1220 ), who received in 1200 awarded the hereditary title of Earl of Hereford.