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  1. Humphrey IX DE BOHUN: Birth: 25 MAR 1342. Death: 16 Jan 1372/73

  2. Elizabeth DE BOHUN: Birth: ABT 1350 in Derbyshire, England. Death: 3 APR 1385


Sources
1. Author:   Weis, Frederick Lewis
Publication:   Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1992
2. Author:   Cokayne, George E.
Publication:   Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2000

Notes
a. Note:   N757 1st/6th Earl of Northampton. He was the fifth and youngest son of Humphrey VIII de Bohun. He and his elder brother, Humphrey, assisted Edward III to sieze Roger de Mortimer, earl of March, in 1330 and from then on William was one of the King's most active councillors. He was a knight by July, 1331. He was created earl of Northampton on March 16, 1336/37. An income of 1000 pounds a year was promised him. He became constable of England on June 12, 1338. He took a leading part in the King's victory at Sluys on June 24, 1340. He was a Knight of the Garter at the end of 1349. He fought at Crecy on August 26, 1346, and participated in the seige of Calais. In August, 1350, he took part in the victory over the Spanish fleet off Winchelsea, and in October was made warden of the Scottish Marches. In later years he frequently had licenses to export wool, both as a means of recouping his expenses and on the king's behalf. In the mandate in 1335 for a dispensation for his marriage with Mortimer's widowed daughter-in-law, Mortimer is described as having been murdered by William and his accomplices, and the marriage to be arranged as a means of putting an end to the enmity between the two families. The King provided a gilt cloth for his funeral.


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