William de -Bohun /de Bohun 1st Earl of Northampton 1336, 1st Earl of Northampton 1336/7^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]}

1311 - 1360  (49 years)

• Name	William de -Bohun /de Bohun 1st Earl of Northampton 1336  [14, 15]
  Suffix	1st Earl of Northampton 1336/7
  Relationship	with Joanna Willems
  Birth	03 Apr 1311	Caldecote, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom   [14, 16]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	17 Mar 1337 (Age 25 years)  [17, 18, 19, 20, 21]
  	1st Earl of Northampton Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
  Burial	1360	Walden Abbey, Saffron Walden, Essex, England, United Kingdom
  Death	16 Sep 1360	Hereford, England, United Kingdom   [14, 16, 17, 19]
  Person ID	I844325	savenije
  Last Modified	15 Oct 2016

  
  

  Father	Humphrey VIII de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Essex           b. 1276, Pleshey Castle, Essex, England, United Kingdom           d. 16 Mar 1321, Boroughbridge, York, England, United Kingdom (Age 45 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Plantagenêt, Princess of England           b. 07 Aug 1282, Rhuddlan Castle, Caernarvon, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom           d. 05 May 1316, Quendon, Essex, England, United Kingdom (Age 33 years)
  Marriage	14 Nov 1302	Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom   [14, 22, 23, 24]
  Age at Marriage	He : ~ 26 years and 11 months - She : 20 years and 3 months.
  Siblings	5 brothers and 5 sisters
  1. Agnes de Bohun, (or Margeret N..)           b. Abt 1304             d. Yes, date unknown   2. Margaret de Bohun           b. Bef 1 Feb 1303-1304, Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom           d. Yes, date unknown   3. Eleanor de Bohun           b. Bef 17 Oct 1304, Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom           d. Yes, date unknown   4. Humphrey de Bohun           b. Abt 20 Oct 1305, Pleshey Castle, Essex, England, United Kingdom           d. Yes, date unknown > 5. John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford and Essex           b. 23 Nov 1306, Saint Clement, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom           d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Alice FitzAlan,  m. 1325   6. Humphrey IX de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford and Essex           b. 06 Dec 1309, Caldecote, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom           d. 15 Oct 1361, Pleshey Castle, Essex, England, United Kingdom  (Age 51 years)   7. William de -Bohun /de Bohun 1st Earl of Northampton 1336, 1st Earl of Northampton 1336/7           b. 03 Apr 1311, Caldecote, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom           d. 16 Sep 1360, Hereford, England, United Kingdom  (Age 49 years)   8. Margaret de Bohun           b. 03 Apr 1311, Caldicot Castle, Monmouth, Wales, United Kingdom           d. 16 Dec 1391, Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom  (Age 80 years)   9. Edward de Bohun           b. Abt 1312, Caldecote, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom           d. Yes, date unknown   10. Aeneas de Bohun           b. Between 1313 and 1315, Quendon, Essex, England, United Kingdom           d. Yes, date unknown   11. Living
  Family ID	F315996	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Stepfather	Graaf Jan I van Holland           b. Between 1281 and 1284, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland           d. 10 Nov 1299, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland  (Age 18 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Plantagenêt, Princess of England           b. 07 Aug 1282, Rhuddlan Castle, Caernarvon, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom           d. 05 May 1316, Quendon, Essex, England, United Kingdom (Age 33 years)
  Family ID	F297404	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He was the Earl of Northampton. 5th and yougest son.; Earl of Northampton 1336/7 =========== [Royal Ancestors.ged] Earl of Northampton (Elizabeth-6 Plantagenet, Edward-5 King of England, King-4 henry IIi, King of England, King-3 John Lackland I , Henry II-2 Plantagenet, King of England, Geoffrey V-1) In 1357 Edward III conferred the Earldom of Northampton on his cousin and leading adviser William de Bohun, youngest son by a daughter of Edward I of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hertford and Essex.; The new Earl was occupied in fighting the Scots in the north of England, of which he became Constable in 1338, and the French in the opening stages of the Hundred Years War.; William's son Humphrey succeeded him but died without male issue in Jan 1372/3, when the Earldom expired. [Burke's Peerage,Northampton, Earldom & Marquessate, p. 2108] William, a personage of great eminence in the turbulent times in which helived and one of the gallant heros of Cressy.; In the parliament held at London in the 11th Edward III [1338], upon the advancement of the Black Prince to the dukedom of Cornwall, he was created Earl of Northampton (17 March, 1337), and from that period his lordship appears the constant companion in arms of the martial Edward, and his illustrious son.; At Cressy he was in the second battalia of the English army, and he was frequently engaged in the subsequent wars of France and Scotland.; He was entrusted at different periods with the most important offices, such as ambassador to treat of peace with hostile powers, commissioner to levy troops, &c., and he was finally honoured with the Garter.; His lordship m. Elizabeth, dau. of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, one of the co-heirs of her brother Giles, and widow of Edmund de Mortimer, by whom he had issue, Humphrey, 2nd Earl of Northampton, of whom here after, as successor to his uncle in the earldom of Hereford and Essex and constableship of England; and Elizabeth, m. to Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel.; He d. in 1360. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage,London, 1883, p. 57-58, Bohun, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Essex, Earlsof Northampton, and High Constables of England] ...x .

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 03 Apr 1311 - Caldecote, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom Burial - 1360 - Walden Abbey, Saffron Walden, Essex, England, United Kingdom Death - 16 Sep 1360 - Hereford, England, United Kingdom  = Link to Google Earth
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