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Family: John de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex / Margaret Basset, Countess of Hereford and Essex (F8435)  ^{[1, 2]} 

• Male John de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex

  
  

  Birth	23 Nov 1305	Pleshey Castle, Pleshey, Essex, England Pleshey Castle, Pleshey, Essex, England Very little remains of the castle save the earthworks and moat.
  Death	20 Jan 1335	Kirkby Thore, Westmorelandshire, Wales
  Burial		Abbey of St Mary's, Stratford Langthorne, Essex, England
  Marriage	by 1330  [2]
  Other Spouse	Alice FitzAlan | F8434
  Marriage	1325
  Father	Humphrey de Bohun VIII, Earl of Hereford and Essex | F2265 Group Sheet
  Mother	Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, Countess of Hereford | F2265 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Margaret Basset, Countess of Hereford and Essex

  
  

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  Death	After 1 Dec 1347
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• Notes

  Married: They had no children. [1, 2] Marriage Event : A papal dispensation was issued at Avignon: "To the bishops of Lichfield and Coventry and London. Mandate to summon the parties to London, and hear the cause touching the marriage of John, earl of Hereford, and Margaret Bassett, who after their marriage discovered that they were related in the fourth degree, and thereupon ceased to live together." [2]

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S278] Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (web: http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html). [S1875] Verity, Brad. "The Children of Elizabeth, Countess of Hereford, Daughter of Edward I of England", (Vowchurch, UK: Foundations: Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, volume 6, 2014).