Married 18 JAN 1297, Ipswich Priory Church, Suffolk to , John I of Holland, Count of Holland

Married 14 NOV 1302, Westminster Abbey, London, England to de Bohun, Humphrey, Earl of Hereford4 & Essex

Child 1: de Bohun, John of Hereford, Earl of Hereford9 & Essex, b. 23 NOV 1305
Child 2: de Bohun, Humphrey of Hereford, Earl of Hereford 10 Essex, b. 6 DEC 1309
Child 3: de Bohun, William of Northampton, Earl of Northampton, b. ABT 1311
Child 4: de Bohun, Alianore, b. 1304
Child 5: de Bohun, Margaret, b. 3 APR 1311
Child 6: de Bohun, Edward, b. ABT 1311
Child 7: de Bohun, Eneas, b. ABT 1314
Child 8: de Bohun, Edmund
Child 9: de Bohun, Hugh, b. ABT 1303
Child 10: de Bohun, Mary, b. 1305
Child 11: de Bohun, Isabella, b. 1316

3Humphrey de Bohun's birth year is uncertain although several contemporary sources indicate that it was 1276. His father was Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford and his mother was Maud de Fiennes, daughter of Enguerrand II de Fiennes and Isabelle de Conde. He was born at Pleshey Castle, Essex.
Humphrey de Bohun VIII succeeded his father as Earl of Hereford and Earl of Essex, and Constable of England (later called Lord High Constable). Humphrey held the title of Bearer of the Swan Badge, a heraldic device passed down in the Bohun family. This device did not appear on their coat of arms, (az, a bend ar cotised or, between 6 lioncels or) nor their crest (gu, doubled erm, a lion gardant crowned), but it does appear on Humphrey's personal seal (illustration).

Scotland
Humphrey was one of several earls and barons under Edward I who laid siege to Caerlaverock Castle in Scotland in 1300 and later took part in many campaigns in Scotland. He also loved tourneying and gained a reputation as an "elegant" fop. In one of the campaigns in Scotland Humphrey evidently grew bored and departed for England to take part in a tournament along with Piers Gaveston and other young barons and knights. On return all of them fell under Edward I's wrath for desertion, but were forgiven. It is probable that Gaveston's friend, Edward (the future Edward II) had given them permission to depart. Later Humphrey became one of Gaveston's and Edward II's bitterest opponents.
He would also have been associating with young Robert Bruce during the early campaigns in Scotland, since Bruce, like many other Scots and Border men, moved back and forth from English allegiance to Scottish. Robert Bruce, King Robert I of Scotland, is closely connected to the Bohuns. Between the time that he swore his last fealty to Edward I in 1302 and his defection four years later, Bruce stayed for the most part in Annandale, rebuilding his castle of Lochmaben in stone, making use of its natural moat. Rebelling and taking the crown of Scotland in February, 1306, Bruce was forced to fight a war against England which went poorly for him at first, while Edward I still lived. After nearly all his family were killed or captured he had to flee to the isle of Rathlin, Ireland. His properties in England and Scotland were confiscated.
Humphrey de Bohun received many of Robert Bruce's forfeited properties. It is unknown whether Humphrey was a long-time friend or enemy of Robert Bruce, but they were nearly the same age and the lands of the two families in Essex and Middlesex lay very close to each other. After Bruce's self-exile, Humphrey took Lochmaben, and Edward I awarded him Annandale and the castle. During this period of chaos, when Bruce's queen, Elizabeth de Burgh, daughter of the Earl of Ulster, was captured by Edward I and taken prisoner, Hereford and his wife Elizabeth became her custodians. She was exchanged for Humphrey after Bannockburn in 1314. Lochmaben was from time to time retaken by the Scots but remained in the Bohun family for many years, in the hands of Humphrey's son William, Earl of Northampton, who held and defended it until his death in 1360..


He was married to Elizabeth Princess Of ENGLAND on 14 Nov 1302 in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England.
Children were:
Margaret De BOHUN,
Eleanor De BOHUN,
Humphrey De BOHUN,
John De BOHUN Earl Of Hereford,
Agnes BOHUN ,
Margaret De BOHUN Countess Of Devo,
William De BOHUN Earl Of Northamp,
Edward De BOHUN ,
Aeneas De BOHUN,
Isabel De BOHUN.

3John I (1284-November 10, 1299, Haarlem) was Count of Holland and son of Count Floris V. John inherited the county in 1296 after the murder of his father.
Shortly after his birth, after negotiations between Floris and King Edward I of England in April 1285, he was betrothed to princess Elizabeth of England, a daughter of Edward and his first Queen consort Eleanor of Castile. Soon after this the infant John was sent to England to be raised and educated there at Edward's court. In 1296, after the murder of John's father Count Floris V, King Edward invited a number of nobles from Holland with English sympathies, amongst whom were John III, Lord of Renesse and Wolfert I van Borselen. On January 7, 1297 John married Edward's daughter Elizabeth at Ipswich. Soon after this, he was allowed to return to Holland, although being made to promise to heed the council of Renesse and Borselen. Elizabeth was expected to go to Holland with her husband, but did not wish to go, leaving her husband to go alone. After some delay and spending Christmas 1297 with part of her family in Ghent, Elizabeth did join her husband in Holland in 1298.
At first Renesse acted as regent, but on 30 April 1297, John had appointed Wolfert van Borselen regent in his stead, until his fifteenth birthday. As regent, Wolfert van Borselen, pursued a policy of neutrality towards Flanders and England. He came into conflict with the city of Dordrecht and was killed there by a mob on 30 August 1299. After this Count John II of the house of Avesnes took over the regency, for a few months. Count John I of Holland died at Haarlem in the same year, on 10 November, childless and only fifteen years old, reportedly of dysentery, but there were suspicions he was murdered.
With his death without descendants, and all his siblings having died young, the heirs to the county of Holland were his cousins of Hainaut, sons of John's great-aunt Adelaide of Holland. From this time to the extinction of Hainaut as an independent county, Holland was in personal union with Hainaut.
Three years after John's death, his young widow remarried to Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford.