Humphrey de BOHUN

                       (1) Created  Earl of Hereford 1199
    (2) Ob. 1220
    (3) Pedigree in Visitation of Cornwall, Vivian ed., 1887, p.105
    (4) Henry de Bohun:  (b.1176, d.June 1, 1220, buried Llanthony Abbey in
    Gloucester).  He married Maud Fitz Piers, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, Earl
    of Essex (d.1212 and his wife Beatrix de Sayle.  Henry was the first Earl of
    Hereford and constable of England through the hereditary right to the office
    from his great grandfather Miles of Gloucester.  On the accession of King John
    I he was created Earl of Hereford in 1199.  In 1200 he was sent with other
    nobles to summon his uncle, William the Lion of Scotland to appear at Lincoln
    to do homage to King John of England.  In 1215 he joined the barons who
    obtained the concessions of the Magna Charta and was one of the twenty-five
    barons appointed to insure its observance.  On John's death he still adhered to
    the party who wanted to make Louis of France King of England and was taken
    prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in 1217.  He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy
    Land and was succeeded by his son Humphrey.--Adec,FHL 929.273,C769w