Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford (1276-16 March 1322) was a noble of the Kingdom of England. He commanded King Edward II of England's army at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 against the Kingdom of Scotland, but in 1322 he rebelled against his lord and was slain at the Battle of Boroughbridge.
Biography[]
Humphrey de Bohun was born in 1276, and he succeeded his father Humphrey VI de Bohun as the Earl of Hereford on his death in 1298; he also became Lord High Constable of England. He took part in the campaigns against the Kingdom of Scotland under King Edward the Longshanks in the 1300s, and he inherited much of the confiscated land that Robert the Bruce lost due to his shifting allegiances between Scotland and England. Bohun was given command of the English army that fought Robert at the 1314 Battle of Bannockburn, where Humphrey's nephew Henry de Bohun was killed by Robert at the start of the battle, and the Scottish army destroyed the English army in battle. Humphrey was captured, but he was later traded for Queen Elizabeth de Burgh of Scotland, who was imprisoned by the English. In 1322, Bohun rebelled against the young and inept King Edward II of England after he failed to obey the Magna Carta of 1214, but he was killed at the Battle of Boroughbridge, ending the revolt in Glamorgan.