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Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford

1342 – 1373

English noble

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Lived 1342 – 1373 (aged 30). Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford was an aristocrat.

Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton (25 March 1342 – 16 January 1373) was the son of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, and Elizabeth de Badlesmere, and grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, by Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I. He inherited the Earldom of Hereford after the death of his childless uncle Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford.

Humphrey participated in the sack of Alexandria in 1365, following King Peter I's visit to England.

Humphrey's wife and the mother of his daughters was Joan Fitzalan, daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel, and Eleanor of Lancaster, whom he married after 9 September 1359.

On his death, his estates were inherited by his two surviving daughters and his titles went into abeyance: Eleanor de Bohun (1366 – 3 October 1399); married Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Edward III Mary de Bohun, who married Henry Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV of England. Elizabeth de Bohun, died young.

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Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford was born on 25 March 1342.

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Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford died on 16 January 1373.

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Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford was an aristocrat.

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· Wikipedia: Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford

· Wikidata: Q2379648

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