Unravelling the de Bohun’s

As noted in a previous post, David Christian has long been interested in the Knights Templar, so a visit to the Temple Church in London was definitely on our itinerary when we visited London in May 2019.

The Knights Templar were a “Catholic military order founded in 1119, headquartered on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem….   The order was active until 1312 when it was perpetually suppressed by Pope Clement V by the bull Vox in excelso. ” Wikipedia article

The Temple Church

While inside the Temple Church, I noticed a display that featured a King’s Pardon of November 5 1297 to  Sir Humphrey de Bohun. I remarked to David that I was sure there were de Bohun‘s in his family tree.

Subsequently I found that there are a lot of Humphrey Bohun‘s and it does get confusing. However I was able to work out that the display in the Temple Church referred to Humphrey de Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford (1249 – 1298) in regard to what is known as the 1297 Remonstrances.

A Wikipedia article was very helpful:  Humphrey de Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford and others had objected “to supporting Edward I’s planned campaign to protect his possessions in Gascony and his trading interests with Flanders  in 1297…. Edward I went on with the planned campaign, and demanded a grant of taxation from his subjects …. and further they objected to the king’s failure to uphold the Magna Carta…. As the king left for the Continent, the nation seemed to be on the brink of civil war. What brought the issue to a conclusion was the English defeat to the Scots at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. This united the country against a common enemy….. Edward promised to address the grievances, while Bigod and Bohun agreed to serve on a campaign in Scotland. As a sign of good will, the King signed the Confirmatio cartarum – a confirmation of Magna Carta.”

And so the Magna Carta displays within the Temple Church were not only relevant to John 1 Plantagenet in 1215, but also to his grandson Edward 1 in 1297.  Subsequently we visited a Magna Carta exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy at the Old Parliament House in Canberra later in August 2019 – see more on the Magna Carta in Canberra in 2019.  We hadn’t seen the Magna Carta exhibition in the High Court of Australia in 2015 the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. I hadn’t realsed that there was an Australian Magna Carta Institute – see also Magna Carta Legacy. In 2020, the legacy of the Magna Carta and the Rule of Law in the Covid-19 era.

 

The de Bohun name features in the Mary Boleyn  ancestral lines of Daniel Dering Mathew. This is through both of Mary’s parents who both descend from Elizabeth de Bohun (1350 -1385) – daughter of William de Bohun (1312 – 1360) and grandaughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Elizabeth Plantagenet, who was a daughter of Edward 1 Plantagenet. Mary Boleyn actually was descended from eight Humphrey de Bohun’s, as shown below. Mary Boleyn was also descended from David I of Scotland via his granddaughter Margaret of Huntingdon who married Humphrey de Bohun ( 1144 – 1181).

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de Bohun – Early generations down to creation of the Earldom of Hereford

Humphrey de Bohun with the Beard (died c. 1113) – had participated in the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and associated with Bohon/Bohun in Manche, Normandy (in the 12th century split into two separate parishes of Saint-Georges-de-Bohon and Saint-André-de-Bohon^[7]), 26 km north-east of Coutances and 18 km north-west of Saint-Lô.

• Humphrey de Bohun ( – 1123)- Maud of Salisbury, a daughter of Edward of Salisbury
  • Humphrey de Bohun ( – 1164) –  Margaret of Hereford
    • Humphrey de Bohun ( 1144 – 1181) – Margaret of Huntingdon; daughter of  Ada  de  Warenne  and  Henry  of Scotland; son  of  David I of  Scotland and  Maud, Countess of Huntingdon a descendant of Alfred the Great.
      • Henry de Bohun 1st Earl Hereford  (1176  – 1220) – son of Margaret of Huntingdon –  Maud de Mandeville (alias Maud FitzGeoffrey), daughter and heiress of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, of Pleshy Castle in Essex, daughter of Strongbow – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.

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de Bohun – Generations from creation of the Earldom of Hereford

Henry de Bohun 1st Earl Hereford  (1176  – 1220) – son of Margaret of Huntingdon –  Maud de Mandeville (alias Maud FitzGeoffrey), daughter and heiress of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, of Pleshy Castle in Essex, daughter of Strongbow – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.

• Humphrey de Bohun 2nd Earl Hereford (1204 – 1275) – Maud de Lusignan (c.1210 – 14 August 1241)
  • Humphrey de Bohun (- 1265) – Eleanor de Braose  (1228 – 1251) daughter of Eva Marshal and granddaughter of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare, daughter of Strongbow – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
    • Humphrey de Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford (1249 – 1298) – Maud de Fiennes
      • Humphrey de Bohun 4th Earl Hereford (1276 – 1322) – Lady Elizabeth Plantagenet (1282 – 1360) daughter of Edward  1 Plantagenet
        • Lady Alianore Eleanor de Bohun (1304 – 1363) – James Butler 1st Earl of Ormonde
        • John de Bohun 5th Earl Hereford
        • Humphrey de Bohun 6th Earl Hereford
        • William de Bohun (1312 – 1360) – Elizabeth Badlesmere – 3 x great granddaughter of William Marshal and Isobel de Clare via their daughter Isabel Marshal
          • Humphrey de Bohun 7th Earl of Hereford (1341 – 1373) – Joan FitzAlan Arundel
            • Eleanor de Bohun – Thomas of Woodstock
            • Mary de Bohun – Henry IV Plantagenet Bolingbroke – son of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster
              • Henry V Plantagenet
                • Henry VI Plantagenet
                  • Edward Prince of Wales
          • Elizabeth de Bohun (1350 – 1385) – Richard FitzAlan Arundel (1346 – 1397)
            • • Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan Arundel (1374 – 1425) –  Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk
                • Lady Margaret de Mowbray – Sir Robert Howard
                  • Sir John Howard – Katherine Molines
                    • Thomas Howard – Elizabeth Tilney
                      • Lady Elizabeth Howard – Sir Thomas Boleyn
                        • Lady Mary Boleyn – Sir William Carey  
                          • Henry Carey
                          • Catherine Carey (1524 – 1569), (some claim her father was Henry VIII) – 1, – married Francis Knollys (1511- 1596) – 1,
              • Lady Joan FitzAlan Arundel (1375 – 1435) – William de Beauchamp
                • Lady Joan de Beauchamp – James Butler 4th Earl of Ormond
                  • Thomas Butler 7th Earl of Ormond – Lady Ann Hankford
                    • Margaret Butler – William Boleyn
                      • Sir Thomas Boleyn – Lady Elizabeth Howard 
                        • Lady Mary Boleyn – Sir William Carey  
                          • Henry Carey
                          • Catherine Carey (1524 – 1569), (some claim her father was Henry VIII) – 1, – married Francis Knollys (1511- 1596) – 1,

• Catherine Carey (1524 – 1569), (some claim her father was Henry VIII) – 1, – married Francis Knollys (1511- 1596) – 1,
  • Richard Knollys (1548 – 1596) – Joan Heighham – Winchcombe (1549 – 1631)
    • Francis Knollys – Alice Beecher (she later married Henry Hunkes)
      • Dorothy Knollys (1633 Stanford in the Vale Berkshire – after 1670). William’s diaries – 1, ; (see Lack Family website), 1, – William Byam (1621 Luccombe/Luckham Somerset – 1670 Antigua Leeward Islands West Indies)
        • Willoughby Byam
        • Edward Byam (1661 Surinam – 1741 Antigua Leeward Islands West Indies) – Lydia Thomas (1670 – 1744 Antigua Leeward Islands West Indies)
          • George Byam (1704 St John’s Antigua – Barbuda – 1734 St Georges Parish Antigua – Barbuda) Henrietta Maria Frye (1703 Antigua West Indies – 1796 Kelvedon Essex)
            • George Byam married Louisa Bathurst
              • George Byam
              • Selina Byam married Reverend William Hony
              • Elizabeth Byam married Mark Batt
              • Louisa Byam
              • Henrietta Maria Byam
            • John Byam
            • Mary Byam (1730 Antigua West Indies – 1814 Felix Hall Kelvedon West Essex) – Daniel Mathew (1715 – 1777) of Felix Hall Kelvedon West Essex – 1, 2,
              • Daniel Byam Mathew (1756 London – 1838 St Kitts West Indies ) – Elizabeth Dering (1765 – 1812) – 1, 2,
                • Daniel Dering Mathew (1787 Essex – 1856 St Leonards Sydney Australia) “bed partner?” to his servant Bridget Ann Oliver (1800 – 1885) – 1,

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