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Birth:          ABT 1120 of Gloucestershire, England
Death:          BEF 29 Sep 1165 England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_II_de_Bohun
Humphrey II de Bohun (died 1164/5) was an Anglo-Norman aristocrat, the third of his 
family after the Norman Conquest. He was the son and heir of Humphrey I and Maud, 
a daughter of Edward of Salisbury, an Anglo-Saxon landholder in Wiltshire. His father 
died around 1123 and he inherited an honour centred on Trowbridge, although he still 
owed feudal relief for this as late as 1130.

Shortly after the elder Humphrey's death, his widow and son founded the Cluniac 
priory of Monkton Farleigh in accordance with Humphrey's wishes. By 1130 the 
younger Humphrey also owed four hundred marks to the Crown for the Stewardship, 
which he had purchased. He appears in royal charters of Henry I towards 1135, and in 
1136 he signed the charter of liberties issued by Stephen at his Oxford court.

In the civil war that coloured Stephen's reign Humphrey sided with his rival, the 
Empress Matilda after she landed in England in 1139. He repelled a royal army 
besieging his castle at Trowbridge, and in 1144 Matilda confirmed his possessions, 
granted him some lands, and recognised his "stewardship in England and Normandy". 
He consistently witnessed charters of Matilda as steward in the 1140s and between 
1153 and 1157 he witnessed the charters of her son, then Henry II, with the same 
title.

In 1158 he appears to have fallen from favour, for he was deprived of royal demesne 
lands he had been holding in Wiltshire. He does not appear in any royal act until 
January 1164, when he was present for the promulgation of the Constitutions of 
Clarendon. He died sometime before 29 September 1165, when his son, Humphrey III, 
had succeeded him in Trowbridge. He left a widow in Margaret of Hereford, daughter 
of Earl Miles of Hereford and Sibyl de Neufmarché

Parents
DE BOHUN Humphrey (ABT 1100 - )
OF SALISBURY Maud (ABT 1100 - )

Siblings
DE BOHUN Humphrey (ABT 1120 - BEF 29 Sep 1165)

Marriage To OF HEREFORD [DE GLOUCESTER] Margaret (ABT 1122 - 6 Apr 1197)
    m. BEF 1139 

Notes

Parents
OF GLOUCESTER Miles (ABT 1092 - 24 Dec 1143)
DE NEUFMARCHE Sybil (ABT 1100 - 1143)

Children by OF HEREFORD [DE GLOUCESTER] Margaret ABT 1122 - 6 Apr 1197
DE BOHUN Humphrey (ABT 1143 - Dec 1181)

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