Henry de [Earl] BOHUN

                         (1) Created  Earl of Hereford 1199
      (2) Ob. 1220
      (3) Pedigree in Visitation of Cornwall, Vivian ed., 1887, p.105
      (4) Henry de Bohun:  (b.1176, d.June 1, 1220, buried Llanthony Abbey in
      Gloucester).  He married Maud Fitz Piers, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, Earl
      of Essex (d.1212 and his wife Beatrix de Sayle.  Henry was the first Earl of
      Hereford and constable of England through the hereditary right to the office
      from his great grandfather Miles of Gloucester.  On the accession of King John
      I he was created Earl of Hereford in 1199.  In 1200 he was sent with other
      nobles to summon his uncle, William the Lion of Scotland to appear at Lincoln
      to do homage to King John of England.  In 1215 he joined the barons who
      obtained the concessions of the Magna Charta and was one of the twenty-five
      barons appointed to insure its observance.  On John's death he still adheredto
      the party who wanted to make Louis of France King of England and was taken
      prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in 1217.  He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy
      Land and was succeeded by his son Humphrey.--Adec,FHL 929.273,C769w