William de , 1st Earl of Northampton, Kg BOHUN

Sources:

The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by WalterLee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 18-6
Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles MosleyEditor-in-Chief, 1999, 2108
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                   In 1357 Edward III conferred the Earldom of Northampton on his cousin andleading adviser William de Bohun, youngest son by a daughter of Edward Iof Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hertford and Essex.  The new Earl wasoccupied in fighting the Scots in the north of England, of which hebecame Constable in 1338, and the French in the opening stages of theHundred Years War.  William's son Humphrey succeeded him but died withoutmale issue in Jan 1372/3, when the Earldom expired.  [Burke's Peerage,Northampton, Earldom & Marquessate, p. 2108]

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William, a personage of great eminence in the turbulent times in which helived and one of the gallant heros of Cressy. In the parliament held atLondon in the 11th Edward III [1338], upon the advancement of the BlackPrince to the dukedom of Cornwall, he was created Earl of Northampton (17March, 1337), and from that period his lordship appears the constantcompanion in arms of the martial Edward, and his illustrious son. AtCressy he was in the second battalia of the English army, and he wasfrequently engaged in the subsequent wars of France and Scotland. He wasentrusted at different periods with the most important offices, such asambassador to treat of peace with hostile powers, commissioner to levytroops, &c., and he was finally honoured with the Garter. His lordship m.Elizabeth, dau. of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, one of the co-heirs of herbrother Giles, and widow of Edmund de Mortimer, by whom he had issue,Humphrey, 2nd Earl of Northampton, of whom hereafter, as successor to hisuncle in the earldom of Hereford and Essex and constableship of England;and Elizabeth, m. to Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel. He d. in1360. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage,London, 1883, p. 57-58, Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earlsof Northampton, and High Constables of England]