Humphrey De BOHUN
4th Earl of Hereford

1276-March 16, 1321

Father: Humphrey DE BOHUN (1249–December 31, 1297)
Mother: Maud de FIENNES (?-?)

Wife: Elizabeth PLANTAGENET (August 1, 1282-May 5, 1316)

Children:
Margaret De BOHUN (September 1303-1305)
Eleanor De BOHUN (October 1304-?) *married James BUTLER, 1st Earl of Ormonde; married Thomas, Lord DAGWORTH
Humphrey De BOHUN (1305-?) *died in infancy
John De BOHUN, 5th Earl of Hereford (November 23, 1306-1361)
Humphrey De BOHUN, 6th Earl of Hereford (December 6, 1309-1361)
Margaret De BOHUN (April 3, 1311-1391) *married Hugh COURTENAY, 2nd Earl of Devon
William De BOHUN, 1st Earl of Northampton (1312-September 16, 1360)
Edward De BOHUN (1312-1334) *William's twin
Eneas De BOHUN (?-after 1322)
Isabel De BOHUN (May 5, 1316-May 1316)
Pedigree: 
                             Humphrey De BOHUN
|Humphrey De BOHUN|
|                           |Eleanor de BRAOSE  
|
|--Humphrey De BOHUN
|
|                            Enguerrand II de FIENNES
|Maud de FIENNES |
                            |____________________
Colleen Keenan's 18th great-grandfather
SOURCE 1: The Claypoole Family in America by Evelyn Claypool Bracken
SOURCE 2: Rootsweb.com
SOURCE 3: royalty.nu
SOURCE 4: en.wikipedia.org
NOTE: At the battle of Bannockburn, he charged alone at Robert the Bruce, only to be felled and held for ransom for the Bruce's wife. In this battle his nephew Henry de Bohun was also killed by Bruce. Humphrey was killed while fighting Andrew de Harclay, at the Battle of Boroughbridge in a particularly gory manner. As recounted in The Greatest Traitor by Ian Mortimer, page 124:
"[The 4th Earl of] Hereford led the fight on the bridge, but he and his men were caught in the arrow fire. Then one of de Harclay's pikemen, concealed beneath the bridge, thrust upwards between the planks and skewered the Earl of Hereford through the anus, twisting the head of the iron pike into his intestines. His dying screams turned the advance into a panic."

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