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| | Britannia Biographies: William De Bohun, Earl of Northampton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | He was the fifth son of Humphrey De Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Essex, Constable of England, by the Princess Elizabeth, seventh daughter of King Edward I. |
 | | The public records attest the constant employment of this earl in military and diplomatic transactions of the highest importance down to the period of his death, which happened on the 16th September 1360. |
 | | The Earl of Northampton married Elizabeth (who died in 1356), widow of Edmund, Lord Mortimer, and sister and co-heiress of Giles, Lord Badlesmere, by whom he left issue, Humphrey, heir to his dignity, and, upon the decease of the latter's uncle, also Earl of Hereford and Essex. |
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