 Gloucester, the youngest son of Edward III., and who himself bore for awhile the title of Buckingham, afterwards conferred upon his grandson. In these two descents we may mark how rapidly a family may gain strength and power by its alliances. The Duke...  The Archaeological Journal - Page 2621851Full view - About this book
 | Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - England - 1826 - 454 pages
...*, a pair of paternosters of coral, &c.; to my son Humphrey3 a bed of ' She was daughter and coheir of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, Constable of England, &c. and her sister Mary being the wife of Henry, son of John of Gaunt, afterwards Henry IV. became... | |
 | Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - Historic buildings - 1854 - 352 pages
...into Scotlande, & all the iourney the erle of Stafforde made no semblant of the dethe of his sonne, wherein all the barons reputed hym right sage." '...Northampton, and Lady of Brecknock." We possess but little information as to the first Duke. In the 2nd of Henry VI. he did homage and had livery of his lands,... | |
 | Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - Historic buildings - 1854 - 342 pages
...and power by its alliances. "The Duke of Gloucester married Eleanor, the eldest daughter and co-heir of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Essex. and...Buckingham, Hereford, and Northampton, and Lady of Brecknock.1' We possess but little information as to the first Duke. In the 2nd of Henry VI. he did... | |
 | Mrs. Mary Thorpe, Charlotte Thorpe - Christian antiquities - 1895 - 198 pages
...times, yet it is a coincidence worth noting that the same device of the collared swan was the badge of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, Constable of England, concerning whom we learn that he levied a fine upon lands and certain mills in the manor STAFF OF THE... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - Nobility - 1926 - 746 pages
...granted to Anne the fees of the Earldoms of Hereford and Northampton.(') Anne d. in 1438, and in her will styles herself Countess of Stafford, Buckingham, Hereford and Northampton, and Lady of Brecknock.(g) Her son (by her 1st marriage), Humphrey, Earl of Buckingham and Stafford, was so styled... | |
 | Rupert Taylor - English literature - 1911 - 196 pages
...of one man whose name is unknown. The date can be fixed with fair accuracy. The work is dedicated to Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, Constable of England, and Lord of Brecknock, who succeeded to these honors in 1161 and died in H72.B The poem must have been... | |
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