Humphrey I de Bohun

Map of Normandy showing location of the manor of Bohun (now Bohon), origin of the English de Bohun family

Humphrey I de Bohun (died c.1123), of Trowbridge Castle in Wiltshire, jure uxoris 3rd[1] feudal baron of Trowbridge,[2] was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who by his lucrative marriage became "the founder of the fortunes of his family",[3] later prominent in England as Earls of Hereford and Earls of Essex. He is usually enumerated "Humphrey I" even though following his father he was the second "Humphrey de Bohun" settled in England.[4] He has even been called "Humphrey the Great".[5]

  1. ^ 1st post-Conquest baron was Brictric; 2nd was Edward of Salisbury (Sanders)
  2. ^ Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.91
  3. ^ Planché
  4. ^ J. R. Planché, The Conqueror and his Companions (London, 1874), II, 65.
  5. ^ Melville M. Bigelow, "The Bohun Wills," American Historical Review, 1:3 (1896), 415.