HEREFORD, Margaret of

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Constable of England

Notes:

Following the death of her father in a hunting accident in 1143, and sometime before Margaret's husband died in about 1165, all five of her brothers died without legitimate offspring. After her eldest brother Roger's death, the earldom of Hereford fell into abeyance. As a consequence of these events, Miles' lands and properties were divided between Margaret and her two sisters. Being the eldest daughter, she received the lordship of Herefordshire and the office of Constable of England. This office was later passed to her eldest son Humphrey, grandson Henry, and would continue to be held by her direct descendants. As a widow she exercised lordship until her own death, over thirty years later.[6] In her book Women of the English Nobility and Gentry 1066-1500, Jennifer C. Ward described Margaret as having exemplified "the roles which a woman could play in her estates".

Family/Spouse: DE BOHUN, Humphrey II. Humphrey (son of DE BOHUN, Humphrey I and Living) died in 1164. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 27 GGF

Family/Spouse: HUNTINGTON, Margaret of. Margaret (daughter of SCOTLAND, Heir apparent to the Kingdom of Alba. He was also the 3rd Earl of Northumberland and the 3rd Earl of Huntingdon. Henry of and DE WARENNE, Ada) was born in 1145; died in 1201. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Magna Carta Baron: not a direct ancestor
• Relation to Me: 29 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Earl of Hereford
• Magna Carta: 1215; Magna Carta Baron, not a direct ancestor

Notes:

Henry de Bohun was one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta in 1215, and was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope.[1] [2]

"Henry de Bohun was a member of the Essex-based family grouping brought to the rebel cause by kinship with Geoffrey de Mandeville and Robert FitzWalter. His family also held important blocks of lands in the west of England."[6]

In 1215 he joined the confederacy of the barons against the king, and his lands were seized by the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec 1215.[2]

Family/Spouse: FITZGEOFFREY, Maud. Maud (daughter of FITZPIERS, Geoffrey and SAY, Beatrice) was born in 1184; died on 27 Aug 1236 in Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: He was one of the nine godfathers of Prince Edward, later to be Edward I of England.
• Royalty & Nobility: 2nd Earl of Hereford and 1st Earl of Essex, as well as Constable of England

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]