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Birth:          1313 of Castle, Badlesmere, Kent, England
Death:          8 Jun 1356 
Burial:         Black Friars, London, England

Notes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_de_Badlesmere,_Countess_of_Northampton
Elizabeth de Badlesmere, Countess of Northampton (1313 – 8 June 1356) was the wife 
of two English noblemen, Sir Edmund Mortimer and William de Bohun, 1st Earl of 
Northampton. She was a co-heiress of her brother Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron 
Badlesmere.

At the age of eight she was sent to the Tower of London along with her mother, 
Margaret de Clare, Baroness Badlesmere and her four siblings after the former 
maltreated Queen consort Isabella by ordering an assault upon her and refusing her 
admittance to Leeds Castle.
Family[edit]
Elizabeth was born at Castle Badlesmere, Kent, England in 1313 to Bartholomew de 
Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare. She was the third of four 
daughters. She had one younger brother, Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere, 
who married Elizabeth Montagu, but did not have any children.

Her paternal grandparents were Guncelin de Badlesmere and Joan FitzBernard, and 
her maternal grandparents were Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond and Juliana 
FitzGerald of Offaly.

Elizabeth's father was hanged, drawn and quartered on 14 April 1322 for having 
participated in the Earl of Lancaster's rebellion against King Edward II of England; and 
her mother imprisoned in the Tower of London until 3 November 1322. She had been 
arrested the previous October for ordering an assault upon Queen consort Isabella 
after refusing her admittance to Leeds Castle, where Baron Badlesmere held the post 
of Governor.[1] Elizabeth and her siblings were also sent to the Tower along with their 
mother.[2] She was eight years old at the time and had been married for five years to 
her first husband; although the marriage had not yet been consummated due to her 
young age.

In 1328, Elizabeth's brother Giles obtained a reversal of his father's attainder, and he 
succeeded to the barony as the 2nd Baron Badlesmere. Elizabeth, along with her 
three sisters, was a co-heiress of Giles, who had no children by his wife. Upon his 
death in 1338, the barony fell into abeyance. The Badlesmere estates were divided 
among the four sisters, and Elizabeth's share included the manors of Drayton in 
Sussex, Kingston and Erith in Kent, a portion of Finmere in Oxfordshire as well as 
property in London.[3]

Marriages and issue[edit]
On 27 June 1316, when she was just three years old, Elizabeth married her first 
husband Sir Edmund Mortimer (died 16 December 1331)[4] eldest son and heir of 
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Joan de Geneville. The marriage contract was 
made on 9 May 1316, and the particulars of the arrangement between her father and 
prospective father-in-law are described in Welsh historian R. R. Davies' Lords and 
Lordship in the British Isles in the late Middle Ages. Lord Badlesmere paid Roger 
Mortimer the sum of £2000, and in return Mortimer endowed Elizabeth with five rich 
manors for life and the reversion of other lands.[5] The marriage, which was not 
consummated until many years afterward, produced two sons:

Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March (11 November 1328 Ludlow Castle- 26 February 
1360), married Philippa Montagu, daughter of William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury 
and Catherine Grandison, by whom he had issue, including Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl 
of March).
John Mortimer (died young)
By the order of King Edward III, Elizabeth's father-in-law, the Earl of Mortimer was 
hanged in November 1330 for having assumed royal power, along with other crimes. 
His estates were forfeited to the Crown, therefore Elizabeth's husband did not 
succeed to the earldom and died a year later. Elizabeth's dower included the estates 
of Maelienydd and Comot Deuddwr in the Welsh Marches.[6]

In 1335, just over three years after the death of Edmund Mortimer, Elizabeth married 
secondly William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (1312–1360), fifth son of 
Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Elizabeth of Rhuddlan. He was a 
renowned military commander and diplomat. Their marriage was arranged to end the 
mutual hostility which had existed between the Bohun and Mortimer families.[7] A 
papal dispensation was required for their marriage as de Bohun and her first husband, 
Sir Edmund Mortimer were related in the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity by 
dint of their common descent from Enguerrand de Fiennes, Seigneur de Fiennes. 
Elizabeth and de Bohun received some Mortimer estates upon their marriage.[8]

By her second marriage, Elizabeth had two more children:[9]

Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton 
(24 March 1342 - 16 January 1373), after 9 September 1359, married Joan Fitzalan, 
Countess of Hereford, by whom he had two daughters, Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of 
Gloucester, and Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry of Bolingbroke (who later reigned as 
King Henry IV).
Elizabeth de Bohun (c.1350- 3 April 1385), on 28 September 1359, married Richard 
Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel, by whom she had seven children including Thomas 
Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, Elizabeth FitzAlan, and Joan FitzAlan, Baroness 
Bergavenny.
In 1348, the earldom of March was restored to her eldest son Roger who succeeded 
as the 2nd Earl.

Death[edit]
Elizabeth de Badlesmere died on 8 June 1356, aged about forty-three years old. She 
was buried in Black Friars Priory, London. She left a will dated 31 May 1356, 
requesting burial at the priory. Mention of Elizabeth's burial is found in the records 
(written in Latin) of Walden Abbey which confirm that she was buried in Black Friars:

Anno Domini MCCCIxx.obiit Willielmus de Boun, Comes Northamptoniae, cujus corpus 
sepelitur in paret boreali presbyterii nostri. Et Elizabetha uxor ejus sepelitur Lundoniae 
in ecclesia fratrum praedictorum ante major altare.[10]

Parents
DE BADLESMERE Bartholomew (18 Aug 1275 - 14 Apr 1322)
DE CLARE Margaret (ABT 1 Apr 1287 - 22 Oct 1333)

Siblings
DE BADLESMERE Margery (1308 - 18 Oct 1363)
DE BADLESMERE Maud (1310 - May 1366)
DE BADLESMERE Elizabeth (1313 - 8 Jun 1356)
DE BADLESMERE Margaret (1315 - )

Marriage To DE MORTIMER Edmund (ABT 1302 - 16 Dec 1331)
    m. 27 Jun 1326 Earnwood, Shropshire, England

Notes

Parents
DE MORTIMER Roger (3 May 1287 - 29 Nov 1330)
DE GENEVILLE Joan (2 Feb 1286 - 19 Oct 1356)

Children by DE MORTIMER Edmund ABT 1302 - 16 Dec 1331
DE MORTIMER Roger (11 Nov 1328 - 26 Feb 1360)

Marriage To DE BOHUN William (ABT 1312 - 16 Sep 1360)
    m. 1335 Badlesmere Castle, Badlesmere, Kent, England

Notes

Parents
DE BOHUN Humphrey (1275 - 16 Mar 1322)
PLANTAGENET Elizabeth (7 Aug 1282 - 5 May 1316)

Children by DE BOHUN William ABT 1312 - 16 Sep 1360
DE BOHUN Elizabeth (ABT 1350 - 3 Apr 1385)

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