Dapifer
\Dap"i*fer\, n. [L., daps a feast + ferre to bear.] One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.
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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 .