Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
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Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton, KG (25 March 1342 – 16 January 1373) was the son of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, and Elizabeth de Badlesmere, and grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, by Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I.Template:Sfn He inherited the Earldom of Hereford after the death of his childless uncle Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford.Template:Sfn
Humphrey participated in the sack of Alexandria in 1365, following King Peter I's visit to England.Template:Sfn
Humphrey's wife and the mother of his daughters was Joan Fitzalan,Template:Sfn daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel, and Eleanor of Lancaster, whom he married after 9 September 1359.
On his death, his estates were inherited by his two surviving daughters and his titles went into abeyance:
- Eleanor de Bohun (1366 – 3 October 1399); married Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Edward IIITemplate:Sfn
- Mary de Bohun, who married Henry Bolingbroke,Template:Sfn the future King Henry IV of England.
- Elizabeth de Bohun, died young.
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