Elizabeth de Bohun | |
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Countess of Arundel Countess of Surrey |
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Spouse(s) | Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel |
Issue
Thomas FitzAlan, 5th Earl of Arundel
Lady Eleanor FitzAlan Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan Lady Joan FitzAlan Lady Alice FitzAlan Lady Margaret FitzAlan son FitzAlan (name given as either Richard or William) |
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Noble family | Bohun |
Father | William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton |
Mother | Elizabeth de Badlesmere |
Born | c.1350 England |
Died | 3 April 1385 England |
Lady Elizabeth de Bohun, Countess of Arundel, Countess of Surrey (c. 1350 – 3 April 1385) was a member of the Anglo-Norman Bohun family, which wielded much power in the Welsh Marches and the English government. She was the first wife of Richard FitzAlan, a powerful English nobleman and military commander in the reigns of Edward III and Richard II. She was the mother of seven of his children, and as the wife of one of the most powerful nobles in the realm, enjoyed much prestige and took precedence over most of the other peers' wives.
Lady Elizabeth de Bohun was born around 1350, the daughter of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton and Elizabeth de Badlesmere. Her older brother Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford married Joan FitzAlan, a sister of the 11th Earl of Arundel, by whom he had two daughters. Elizabeth had a half-brother, Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, by her mother's first marriage to Sir Edmund Mortimer.
Her paternal grandparents were Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. Her maternal grandparents were Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare.