Eneas (Bohun) de Bohun (abt. 1314 - 1331)

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Died 29 Sep 1331 at about age 17 in Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire, England

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Eneas Bohun was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Eneas or Aeneas was a younger son of Humphrey VIII de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, and his wife, Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Edward I, King of England, and his first wife Eleanor of Castile.^[1][2] His date of birth is unknown, but given he is named last in a list of the sons in his father's will he is most likely to be the youngest son. His twin brothers, Edward and William, named before him, were probably born about 1312^[2], and his mother died in giving birth to the youngest daughter in 1316, so a birth date between 1313 and 1315 seems likely for Eneas.^[1]

As mentioned above he is named in his father's will, dated 11 August 1319^[3] and along with other brothers he was granted 2000 pounds "to buy lands or marriages, or to employ in other things, according as our said executors shall deem profitable".^[4][5]

Eneas died on 29 September 1331 at Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire and was buried at Walden Abbey.^[6][7]

On 19 January 1343/44 he was mentioned among the souls to be prayed for, in the ordination of the chantry of his brother, Sir William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Weir, Alison. 2002. Britain's Royal Families: The complete genealogy. 2nd ed. London: Pimlico. pp. 85-6
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Verity, Brad, 'how many daughters did Elizabeth of Hereford Have?' soc.genealogy.medieval, discussion list, 31 January 2001, http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2001-01/0980927858 : viewed 9 January 2017
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Cokayne, George Edward. 1926. The Complete Peerage: or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times. 2nd, ed. Edited by Hon. Vicary Gibbs, H. Arthur Doubleday, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden. London: St Catherine Press. Digital image, ABC Publications, London, 2003. pp. 469-470
4. ↑ Green, Mary Anne Everett. 1857. Lives of the princesses of England, from the Norman Conquest, vol 3. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longman & Roberts. pp. 56-57. Digital image, HathiTrust https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044005602743;view=1up;seq=15
5. ↑ Andrews-Reading (translator). The Will of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford & Essex, 1319, Foundations (Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy) 6, 2014, pp.11-12
6. ↑ Verity, Brad. The Children of Elizabeth, Countess of Hereford, Daughter of Edward I of England, Foundations (Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy) 6, 2006, pp.9-10, citing the Walden Abbey cartulary
7. ↑ Monasticon Anglicanum. By Sir William Dugdale, Knight. Vol. 4. London. New Edition 1846, p 141 Walden Abbey HathiTrust