Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Buckingham

1381 - 1399  (18 years)

• Name	Humphrey de Bohun
  Birth	Apr 1381  [5, 6]
  Offices Held	say 1395 (13 years)  [6]
  He served as the Lord High Constable of England.
  Miscellaneous	1397 (15 years)  [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 (15 years)  [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	Aft 2 Sep 1399	Walden Abbey, Saffron Walden, Essex, England Walden Abbey was dissolved under Henry VIII, Sir Thomas Audley purchased the property and tore the Abbey down to build Audley End House.   [2, 5]
  Siblings	3 sisters
  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
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Bodilon de Trèves, Count of Tréves,   b. About 600, Louresse-Rochemenier, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France d. About 643, Mas d'Albon, Beaucaire, Gard, Languedoc, France  (Age 43 years)  (24 x Great Grandfather)  Mor ingen Muirchertaig   d. 1164  (9 x Great Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I21749
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2025

  
  

  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)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Eleanor de Bohun,   b. 1366, Hereford, Herefordshire, England d. 3 Oct 1399 (Age 33 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F5186	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Buckingham(1381 – 1399) 2Thomas of Woodstock, KG, Duke of Gloucester(7 Jan 1354/55 – 1397) 4Edward III, King of England(1312 – 1377) 8Edward II, King of England(1284 – 1327) 16Edward I, King of England (1239 – 1307) 17Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England(1240/41 – 1290) 9Isabella "the Fair" of France(1292 – 1358) 18Philip IV, King of France and Navarre(1268 – 1314) 19Jeanne of Navarre, Queen of France and Navarre(1272 – 1305) 5Philippa of Hainault(1311 – 1369) 10William III d'Avêsnes, Count of Hainault and Holland(Abt 1286 – 1337) 20Jean II d'Avêsnes, Count of Hainault and Holland(1247 – 1304) 21Philippa of Luxemburg 11Jeanne de Valois(Abt 1294 – 1342) 22Charles of Valois, Prince of France and Count of Valois(1270 – 1325) 23Marguerite, Princess of Naples and Sicily(1273 – 1299) 3Eleanor de Bohun(1366 – 1399) 6Sir Humphrey de Bohun IX, KG, Earl of Hereford and Essex(24 Mar 1341/42 – 16 Jan 1372/73) 12Sir William de Bohun, KG, Earl of Northampton(Abt 1309 – 1360) 24Humphrey de Bohun VIII, Earl of Hereford and Essex(1276 – 1321) 25Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, Countess of Hereford(1282 – 1316) 13Elizabeth de Badlesmere, Countess of Northampton( – 1356) 26Bartholomew de Badlesmere, Lord Baddlesmere (1275 – 1322) 27Margaret de Clare(1286 – 1365) 7Joan FitzAlan(1347 – 1419) 14Sir Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel(1306 – 24 Jan 1375/76) 28Sir Edmund Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel(1273 – 1326) 29Alice de Warrene( – 1328) 15Eleanor de Lancaster( – 1372) 30Sir Henry Pantagenet, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester(Abt 1281 – 1345) 31Maud de Chaworth

  
  

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

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [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] Ancestry.com, Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current® http://findagrave.com, (Lehi, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Memorial ID 166564806 Humphrey of Buckingham . [S304] Wikipedia, Humphrey, 2nd Earl of Buckingham.