Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Buckingham

1381 - 1399  (18 years)

• Name	Humphrey de Bohun
  Relationship	with Robert Alan Roy
  Birth	Apr 1381  [5, 6]
  Offices Held	say 1395 (Age 14)  [6]
  He served as the Lord High Constable of England.
  Miscellaneous	1397 (Age 16)  [1, 2, 6]
  His father was murdered in 1397, and he was his heir, but was debarred by his father's attainder from inheriting his lands and honors. He and Henry of Monmouth (future Henry V, and son of Henry Bolingbroke) became ward's of the crown. Richard II took both boys to Ireland in 1398 where they were imprisoned at Kells, Trim, in Ireland. Once Richard II was deposed, Henry Bolingbroke ordered their release and summoned them home but Humphrey, who was sickly, died on the way.
  Title(s)	say 1397 (Age 16)  [2, 6]
  He was styled the second Earl of Buckingham.
  Death	2 Sep 1399	Chester, Cheshire, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  	He died of the plague unmarried. [2, 4]
  Burial	—	Walden Abbey, Saffron Walden, Essex, England   [2, 5]
  Siblings	3 Siblings
  1. Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Buckingham,   b. Apr 1381   d. 2 Sep 1399, Chester, Cheshire, England  (Age 18 years)   2. Anne, Countess of Buckingham, Herefored, and Northampton,   b. Apr 1383, Pleshey, Essex, England d. 16 Oct 1438, England  (Age 55 years) ▻ Edmund de Stafford, Earl of Stafford;   Sir William Bourchier, Count of Eu   3. Joan   d. 16 Aug 1400   4. Isabel, a nun
  Person ID	I21749
  Last Modified	22 Jun 2021

  
  

  Father	Thomas of Woodstock, KG, Duke of Gloucester,   b. 7 Jan 1354/55, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d. 8 Sep 1397, Calais, Hauts-de-France, Pas-De-Calais, France (Age 42 years)
  Mother	Eleanor de Bohun,   b. 1366, Hereford, Herefordshire, England d. 3 Oct 1399 (Age 33 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1376
  Age at Marriage	He : ~ 20 years and 11 months - She : ~ 10 years.
  Family ID	F5186	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Death - 2 Sep 1399 - Chester, Cheshire, England Burial - — - Walden Abbey, Saffron Walden, Essex, England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S1532] Cokayne, George Edward. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland Vol 03 (D-F), (London: George Bell and Sons, 1890). [S1533] Cokayne, George Edward. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland Vol 04 (G-K), (London: George Bell and Sons, 1892). [S1444] Cokayne, George E. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland Volume V (L-M), (London: The St. Catherine Press, 1926). [S1531] Courthope, William. Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, (London: J. and W. T. Clarke, 1838). [S14] Find-a-Grave website, (http://www.findagrave.com), Memorial ID 166564806 Humphrey of Buckingham . [S304] Wikipedia, Humphrey, 2nd Earl of Buckingham.