Humphrey VII de , Earl Hereford & Essex BOHUN

                   Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Earl of Essex, and Lord HighConstable. In the 30th Edward I [1302-3], this nobleman gave and grantedunto the king, by a formal conversance, the inheritances of al his landsand lordships, as also of his earldoms of Hereford and Essex, and theconstableship of England, which, upon his marriage with ElizabethPlantagenet, widow of John, Earl of Holland, and dau. of the king, wereregranted to him and entailed upon his issue lawfully begotten by thatlady; in default thereof, and from and after the death of himself andwife, then the lordship of Plessets and certain other lordships in Essexand elsewhere, together with the constableship, should remain wholly tothe king and his heirs for ever. In the 34th of the same reign [13-6-7]he had a grant similarly entailed of the whole territory of Annandale, inScotland. After this his lordship was in the wars of Scotland and wastaken prisoner in the 7th Edward II (1313-14), at the disastrous battle(to the English) of Stryvelin. But he was exchanged for the wife ofRobert Bruce, who had long been captive in England. From this period wefind him constantly engaged in the service of the crown until the 14thyear of the king's reign [1321-22], when Edward learning that the earlwas raising forces in the marches of Wales against Hugh de Spencer theyounger, sent him a peremptory command to forbear, which his lordship notonly refused obeying but forthwith joined Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, inthe great insurrection then incited by that nobleman for the redress ofcertain grievances and the banishment of the Spencers. In his proceeding,however, he eventually lost his life, being run through the body by asoldier at the battle of Boroughbridge, in Yorkshire, where his partyreceived so signal a defeat on 16 March, 1321. The earl had issue fivesurviving sons and two surviving daus., viz., John, Humphrey, Edward,William, Humphrey, Alianore, and Margaret. The earl was s. by his eldestson, Sir John de Bohun, K.B. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and ExtinctPeerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 57, Bohun, Earls of Hereford,Earls of Essex, Earls of Northampton, and High Constables of England]