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Biography of Edward Bohun 1310-1334

Paternal Family Tree: Bohun

Maternal Family Tree: Etienette Countess Provence and Arles

1297 Marriage of Princess Elizabeth and John of Holland

1322 Battle of Boroughbridge

Marriage of Princess Elizabeth and John of Holland

On 8th January 1297 John Gerulfing I Count Holland (age 13) and [his mother] Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland (age 14) were married at Ipswich, Suffolk [Map]. She by marriage Countess Holland. The wedding was attended by her sister [his aunt] Margaret Plantagenet Duchess Brabant (age 21), her father [his grandfather] King Edward I (age 57), her brother [his uncle] Edward (age 12) and her future second husband [his father] Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 21). She the daughter of King Edward I of England and [his grandmother] Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England. He the son of Floris Gerulfing V Count Holland and Beatrix Dampierre. They were half third cousin twice removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King Stephen I England.

On 14th November 1302 [his father] Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 26) and [his mother] Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland (age 20) were married. She by marriage Countess Essex, Countess Hereford. Westminster Abbey [Map]. She the daughter of [his grandfather] King Edward I of England (age 63) and [his grandmother] Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England. He the son of [his grandfather] Humphrey Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford 2nd Earl Essex and [his grandmother] Maud Fiennes Countess Essex and Hereford. They were third cousins.

In 1310 Edward Bohun was born to Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 34) and Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland (age 27) at Caldicot Castle [Map]. He a grandson of King Edward I of England.

On 5th May 1316 [his sister] Isabel Bohun was born to [his father] Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 40) and [his mother] Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland (age 33). His mother Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland died in childbirth. She was buried at Waldon Priory and Abbey [Map]. She a granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

Battle of Boroughbridge

On 16th March 1322 the rebel army led by Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 44) attempted to cross the bridge over the River Ure (between Ripon and York) at Boroughbridge Bridge [Map]. Their path was blocked by forces loyal to the King led by Andrew Harclay 1st Earl Carlisle (age 52). Bartholomew Badlesmere 1st Baron Badlesmere (age 46), Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (age 34), John Botetort 1st Baron Botetort (age 57) and John Maltravers 1st Baron Maltravers (age 32) fought for the rebels. Roger Clifford 2nd Baron Clifford (age 22), Nicholas Longford (age 37), Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln, John Mowbray 2nd Baron Mowbray (age 35) were captured.

Warin Lisle (age 51) was hanged after the battle at Pontefract [Map].

Following the battle Hugh Audley 1st Earl Gloucester (age 31) and his wife Margaret Clare Countess Gloucester were both imprisoned. He in Nottingham Castle [Map] and she in Sempringham Priory [Map].

John Clinton 2nd Baron Clinton (age 22), Ralph Greystoke 1st Baron Greystoke (age 22), William Latimer 2nd Baron Latimer of Corby (age 46), Robert Lisle 1st Baron Lisle (age 34), Domhnall Mar II Earl of Mar (age 29) and Peter Saltmarsh (age 42) fought for the King.

Adam Everingham 1st Baron Everingham of Laxton (age 43) was captured.

[his father] Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex (age 46) was killed. His son [his brother] John (age 15) succeeded 5th Earl Hereford, 4th Earl Essex.

Piers Grandison 2nd Baron Grandison (age 31) fough for the rebels, and was captured.

Hugh Audley 1st Baron Audley of Stratton Audley (age 55) surrendered before the battle and was imprisoned in Wallingford Castle [Map] for the rest of his life

John Giffard 2nd Baron Giffard Brimpsfield (age 34) was captured.

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Patent Rolls. 20th January 1330. The like to Edward de Bohun (age 20), the king's kinsman, and others for the Westminster, death of Hugh de Turpliton, knight, and Richard de Monemuth accidentally killed by them while arresting Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, in Nottingham Castle pursuant to the king's orders. By K. & C.

On 27th January 1332 Edward Bohun (age 22) and Margaret Ros (age 9) were married. He the son of Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex and Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland. They were fourth cousin once removed. He a grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

Around 11th November 1334 Edward Bohun (age 24) drowned; see Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker

Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke [-1360]. In this year [1334], around the feast of Saint Martin [11th November], Lord Edward le Bohun (age 24),1 a nobleman of high character, was drowned in the Scottish March. He saw his young squire in danger, attempting to drive a herd of livestock across a river. To aid him, he directed his warhorse into the riverbed. But because of the slipperiness of large, round stones over which the water flowed, the horse, unable to keep its footing, fell along with his armoured master. Before anyone could come to his aid, he was submerged in the depths and drowned.

Hoc anno, circa festum sancti Martini, dominus Edwardus le Bohun, nobilis indolis, fuit in marchia Scocie submersus. Domicellum nempe suum volentem predam pecudum trans flumen fugare percepit periclitantem, in cuius adiutorium dextrarium suum in alveum direxit, ubi, pre limpitudine lapidum grossorum et spericorum super quos aqua decurrebat, dextrarius impotens stabilire pedem cecidit cum domino suo armato, antequam aliquis poterat iuvare, submerso in profundum.

Note 1. Brother of John, earl of Hereford, and son of Humphrey, earl of Hereford, who was slain at Boroughbridge.

In 1341 [his former wife] Margaret Ros (age 18) died in Musgrave.

Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke [-1360]. They consulted Robert de Holland, who had long served as watchman in the castle and knew all the most secret passageways. He showed them how, by night, the king and his friends might reach the queen's chamber in the castle's outer precincts without the gatekeepers knowing. Guided by torches, the watchman led the king through a certain underground passage that began in a remote area outside the castle and ended in the middle of the kitchen or great hall of the main tower, where the queen was lodged. From the depths of this tunnel, the king's friends emerged armed, with drawn swords, and made their way to the queen's chamber, which by God's grace they found open. The king himself, also armed, waited outside the door so that his mother would not see him. Inside, they encountered Sir Hugh de Turpington,1 who tried to resist them but was killed, the blow struck by Lord John de Neville of Hornby. Then they found the queen nearly ready to retire to bed, and with her was the Earl of March, whom they had come to arrest. They seized him and led him out into the great hall, while the queen cried aloud: 'Fair son, fair son, have pity on gentle Mortimer!' suspecting her son's presence, though she did not see him with her own eyes. They quickly sent for the keys of the castle and took control of all the strongholds into the king's hands, all done so secretly that no one outside the castle was aware, except the king's closest friends.

Consulunt sibi adiuratum Robertum de Heland, qui speculator extitit in castro per multos annos et cui omnia diverticula castri secretissima nota fuerunt, quomodo de nocte ad cameram regine de territorio extra castrum, sine scitu ianitorum, rex et sui amici aditum haberent. Speculator predictus torticibus accensis duxit dominum suum regem per quoddam iter secretum subterraneum, quod incipit a remotis extra castrum et terminatur ad medium coquine vel aule turris principalis, ubi fuit ospitata regina. De medio igitur fundo et tramite subterraneo prosilientes, regis amici ad cameram regine, quam per Dei graciam invenerunt apertam, armati strictis ensibus proficissebantur, rege eciam armato extra hostium camere, ne a matre sua videretur, expectante. Ingressi occiderunt Hugonem de Turpintone militem, resistenciam eiis inferre conantem, domino Iohanne de Neville de Horneby ictum dirigente. Deinde invenerunt reginam matrem quasi paratam ad lecti soporem, et comitem Marchie quem volebant; et captum secum abducebant in aulam, clamante regina: 'Beal fitz, beal fitz, ejez pitie de gentil Mortymer'. Suspectam enim habuit filii presenciam, quam oculo non percepit. Mittunt celeriter pro clavibus castri, omnem firmaturam loci in manus regias capientes, set ita secrete quod hoc nulli patuit extra castrum, nisi regis amicis.

Note 1. A pardon was issued to Edward Bohun and others for the slaying of Hugh de Turpington and Richard de Monmouth; Calendar Patent Rolls, (4 Edward III), 108.

Edward Bohun 1310-1334 appears on the following Descendants Family Trees:

Royal Ancestors of Edward Bohun 1310-1334

Kings Wessex: Great x 8 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 11 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 13 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 11 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd

Kings England: Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 7 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 4 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 8 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 12 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Edward Bohun 1310-1334

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Bohun

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Bohun 1st Earl Hereford

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Dunkeld Duchess Brittany

Great x 2 Grandfather: Humphrey Bohun 2nd Earl Hereford 1st Earl Essex

Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Fitzpeter 1st Earl Essex

Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Mandeville Countess Hereford

Great x 4 Grandmother: Beatrice Saye

Great x 1 Grandfather: Humphrey Bohun

Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Lusignan

Great x 3 Grandfather: Raoul Lusignan Count of Eu

Great x 2 Grandmother: Matilda Lusignan Countess Hereford and Essex

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alix Eu

GrandFather: Humphrey Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford 2nd Earl Essex

Great x 2 Grandfather: William de Braose 9th Baron Abergavenny 7th Baron Bramber

Great x 3 Grandmother: Graecia Briwere

Great x 1 Grandmother: Eleanor de Braose

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fitzgilbert

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke

Great x 4 Grandmother: Sybil of Salisbury

Great x 2 Grandmother: Eva Marshal

Father: Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex

Great x 4 Grandfather: Eustace Fiennes

Great x 3 Grandfather: Engeurrand "Crusader" Fiennes

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alix Unknown

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Fiennes

Great x 4 Grandfather: Guillaume Flanders

Great x 3 Grandmother: Sibylle Flanders

Great x 1 Grandfather: Enguerrand Ingleram Fiennes

Great x 3 Grandfather: Alberic Dammartin

Great x 2 Grandmother: Agnes Dammartin

Great x 4 Grandfather: Renaud II Count Clermont

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mathilde Clermont

Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelaide I Countess Vermandois

GrandMother: Maud Fiennes Countess Essex and Hereford

Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel Provence

Edward Bohun Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke Normandy

Great x 3 Grandfather: King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Empress Matilda Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandfather: King John of England Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen Consort Franks and England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Aenor Chatellerault Duchess Aquitaine

Great x 1 Grandfather: King Henry III of England Son of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabella of Angoulême Queen Consort England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter Courtenay

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Courtenay Countess Angoulême

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Courtenay

GrandFather: King Edward I of England Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Alfonso II King Aragon

Great x 3 Grandfather: Alfonso Barcelona II Count Provence

Great x 4 Grandmother: Sancha Ivrea Queen Consort Aragon

Great x 2 Grandfather: Raymond Berenguer Provence IV Count Provence

Great x 4 Grandfather: Rainou of Sabran

Great x 3 Grandmother: Gersenda II Sabran Countess Provence

Great x 1 Grandmother: Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy

Great x 4 Grandmother: Beatrice Macon Countess Savoy

Great x 2 Grandmother: Beatrice Savoy Countess Provence

Great x 4 Grandfather: William I-Count Geneva

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy

Mother: Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Alfonso IX King Leon

Great x 1 Grandfather: Ferdinand III King Castile III King Leon Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Sancho III King Castile

Great x 3 Grandfather: Alfonso VIII King Castile

Great x 4 Grandmother: Blanche Ramirez Queen Consort Castile

Great x 2 Grandmother: Berengaria Ivrea I Queen Castile Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Plantagenet Queen Consort Castile Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

GrandMother: Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Alberic Dammartin

Great x 2 Grandfather: Simon Dammartin

Great x 4 Grandfather: Renaud II Count Clermont

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mathilde Clermont

Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelaide I Countess Vermandois

Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Dammartin Queen Consort Castile and Leon

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Montgomery I Count Ponthieu

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Montgomery IV Count Ponthieu

Great x 4 Grandmother: Beatrice St Pol Countess Ponthieu

Great x 2 Grandmother: Marie Montgomery Countess Ponthieu

Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis VII King Franks

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alys Capet Countess Ponthieu

Great x 4 Grandmother: Constance of Castile