Ancestry of
Mitt Romney

70th Governor of Massachusetts

Humphrey de Bohun

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• • 21st Great-grandfather of Mitt Romney — 24th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10796630 
  • Father:
  • Humphrey de Bohun 
  • Mother:
  • Maud de Fiennes   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1276 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pleshey Castle, Essex, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Mar 1321/1322 
  • Death Location:
  • Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Plantagenet
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Nov 1302 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westminster, London, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Eleanor de Bohun (Ahnentafel No:5398315 )

  Margaret de Bohun

  William de Bohun

  • Notes: 

  • 4th Earl of Hereford and Sussex.

• Sources for Humphrey de Bohun

  • ¹ American Ancestors, "Boris Johnson: Royal Ancestry", (accessed 04/15/2020).
  • ² Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 159.
  • ³ Browning, Charles H., The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, Philadelpha: (1898), 133.
  • ⁴ Browning, Charles H., ed., Americans Of Royal Descent, Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1883), 287.
  • ⁵ Fraser, ed. Antonia, The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1975), 70.
  • ⁶ Mosley, Charles, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. (1999), 834.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 62.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 308, 312, 314, 328, 332, 336, 342, 353, 359.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 500, 558.
  • ¹⁰ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Eight Lines of Descent of John Prescott, Founder of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1645, Dublin, New Hampshire: (1957), 46.
  • ¹¹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 25.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford", _4th_Earl_of_Hereford, (accessed 09/23/2011).
  • ¹³ Wilkinson, M. M., Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred Families, Shelby, Mississippi: Shelby Book Store, Publishers (1949), 62.

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