Joan de Bohun = John de l'Isle
John Carmi Parsons
de Bohun of Midhurst, Sussex (1301-67) by his first wife (married before
1326) Isabella Tregoz of Goring, Sussex.
The Bohuns of Midhurst were paternally descended from the viscounts of le
Mans, a family whose later senior generations used the surname de Beaumont
and figure prominently in English history. Genealogies of this family
have been posted quite recently to this list and should be recoverable
from dejanews.
Raoul de Beaumont III, viscount of le Mans, fl. 1064, was married twice.
The later generations of this family descend from his first marriage; the
Bohuns of Midhurst, from the second marriage, to a woman of unknown
parentage named Cana.
This marriage produced at least one son, Savaric known as "fitz Cana," who
flourished in England in the reign of Henry I (i.e., 1100-35). His wife,
whose given name is unknown, was a granddaughter and ultimately the sole
heir of Richard de Bohun, lord of Mery in Normandy and of Midhurst in Sussex,
fl. 1070-1113. This Richard was a younger son of Humphrey de Bohon "the
Bearded," fl. 1066, the earliest known ancestor of the Bohun earls of
Hereford and Essex who descended from Humphrey's elder son of the same
name.
Richard de Bohun of Midhurst's wife is unknown. He left an only daughter
and heir, name also unknown, who married one Engelger, an Angevin of
unknown parentage. This couple in turn had three children known to us:
Engelger "de Bohun," who d.s.p. 1180; Josselin, bishop of Sarum, who
resigned his office and died in 1184, leaving an only son Reginald, bishop
of Bath, who also d.s.p.; and a daughter, name unknown, who married
Savaric fitz Cana.
The descendants of Savaric fitz Cana and his Bohun wife also used the
surname Bohun. The couple were first succeeded by their son Savaric, who
succeeded his maternal uncle Engelger at Midhurst in 1180, but d.s.p. His
younger brother Franco was already dead, leaving by an unknown wife a son
Savaric, who inherited Midhurst and d. c. 1246.
The foregoing is culled from Dugdale, CP, Sanders' *English Baronies* and
*Baronia Anglica Concentrata*, i, 129. CP continues the line as follows; as
details are readily available in that publication, I do not repeat all
relevant material here:
Savaric de Bohun d. c. 1246 = Cecily de Mandeville of Essex d. c. 1253;
parents of
Franco de Bohun d. 1273 = Sybil de Ferrers of Derby, maternally a coheir
to the lands of William Marshal earl of Pembroke; parents of
John de Bohun b. c. 1246, d. 1284 = Joan, daughter and heir of Bartholomew
de la Chapelle, serjeant of the king's household (1256-1328); parents of
John, 1275-ca, 1296 s.p.; and James, 1281-1306, = Joan de Braose; parents
of
John de Bohun (1301-67), first lord Bohun of Midhurst by writ of summons
(1363), married first before 1326 Isabella Tregoz of Goring, by whom he
had two sons who d.v.p.s.p. and two daughters, Eve (apparently unmarried)
and Joan, wife of John de l'Isle, lord of Gatcombe on the Isle of Wight.
John (1301-67) married secondly Cecily (d. 1323-81), daughter and heir of
Sir John Filliol of Kelvedon, Essex, by whom he left John (1363-1433), who
continued the line.
John Parsons