Bohun estates-Pleshey Castle

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BOHUN ESTATES

The Bohun's possessions are quite prosperous, chiefly organized around two territorial cores, one in the Welsh marshes and another one in Essex. The Bohun estates were built through centuries of marriages, fortunate matches that brought several inheritances into the lineage, like those inherited through Maud de Mandeville or Eleanor de Braose (daughter of William de Braose and Eva Marshal, a heiress herself): the earldom of Essex and the barony of Brecon, respectively. The Bohun lands yield a handsome income each year, making the earl of Hereford one of the most prominent barons in all England. The castle of Pleshey remains the favored residence of the Bohun earls in Eastern England, while Hereford stands as the comital seat in the Welsh marshes.

Demesne

Possessions Pleshey Castle. Hereford Castle. Kimbolton Castle. Caldicot Castle. Brecon Castle. Lands Berkshire: 7. Wantage - Average Income. DE BOHUN. Hertfordshire: 9. Braughing/Waytemore - Prosperous Income. DE BOHUN. Huntingdonshire: 3. Huntingdon/Kimbolton - Average Income. DE BOHUN. Essex: 4. Chelmsford/Pleshey - Prosperous Income. DE BOHUN. 6. Maldon/Faulkebourne - Prosperous Income. DE BOHUN. 9. Walden - Prosperous Income. DE BOHUN. 12. Colchester/Lexden - Prosperous Income. DE BOHUN. Nothinghamshire: 1. Worksop - Average Income. DE BOHUN. Herefordshire: 5. Hereford - Average Income. DE BOHUN. Powys: 9. Builth - Sparse Income. DE BOHUN. 13. Brecknock/Brecon - Poor Income. DE BOHUN. 14. Penderyn - Average Income. DE BOHUN. Monmouthshire: 4. Llanfair/Chepstow/Caldicot - Prosperous Income. DE BOHUN. Income Rich: 0->400x0=0 Prosperous: 6->6x350=2,100 Average: 5->5x300=1,500 Sparse: 1->1x250=250 Poor: 1->1x200=200 --------------------------------- Total (base income)=4,050 pounds/year +5% Income (wealth) -2% Income (traits) --------------------------------- Grand total=4,175 pounds/year

Lord and Household

The Earl of Hereford SIR HUMPHREY DE BOHUN Born 1276. Titles: 4th Earl of Hereford, 3rd Earl of Essex. Offices: Lord Constable of England. Honors: Bearer of the Swan Badge. Status: Married, to Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (b. 7th August 1282). Children: Margaret Primogenita (b. 1303-d. 1309), Humphrey (b.&d. 1304), John (b. 1306), Humphrey le fiz (b. 1309), Margaret Seconda (b. 1310), Eleanor (b. 1311), Edward (b. 1312, twin to William), William (b. 1312, twin to Edward), Eneas (b. 1313). Traits and Temperaments: +1 Battles. +1 Personal Combat. +1 Charisma. +1 Wealth. +2 Survival. Sanguine: - Confident: This character is very self-assured, brimming with confidence and difficult to shake even under pressure. However, taken to an extreme, they can show a suicidal disregard for their life and the lives of others, and fail to take...well, failure into account when planning. +1 battle rolls, +1 to rout rolls against this character. - Sociable: This character is an extroverted social butterfly, capable of making friends left and right. However, they have little time for 'boring' matters like finances, and are more interested in buying flashy things to show off to their friends than managing their wealth. +1 Charisma, -2% income. Supine: - Idealistic: This person is a strong believer in higher ideals and the innate goodness of man. On the one hand they tend to be inspiring and uplifting figures, on the other they can be taken advantage of by those who live well beneath their expectations. +1 Charisma, -1 to rout/assassination/escape rolls. BIOGRAPHY: The latest in a long and hugely confusing row of Humphreys, stemming back to the days of the Conquest. His father, also called Humphrey, had married Maud de Fiennes, kinswoman to Eleanor of Castille, and gained prominence out of it. The old Humphrey was stubborn as a mule and quarrelled, as expected, with all the other Marcher lords, for the most flimsical excuses known to man. Notoriously turbulent, he nevertheless managed to leave his son a cohesive demesne, including not only the lands of Herefordshire that were his, but also the barony of Brecknock, gained in the times of the conquest of Wales. The young Humphrey was considered a rather vain and uneffective young earl by the beginning of the century, nothing but an elegant fop that lived off the ample demesne bequeathed to him by his forebears. He loved tourneys with an ardent passion and even left Scotland out of boredom, in the middle of a campaign, to travel South and fight in the tilts. However, in due time he seemed to mature and grow up, leaving behind most the foolishness from his younger days. Still, he remains, somewhat, an elegant fop. As his father, grandfather and great-grandfather Humphrey is an extremely stubborn and prideful man, to the point of being quite obtuse. Moreso, Humphrey is a man who has an incredibly strong sense of honour and fiercely defends what he believes to be his prerogatives, imaginary or real. In the course of the Scottish campaigns, and after Robert de Bruce claimed the crown, Bohun was granted all his lands in England and also the lordship of Annandale, the pretender’s paternal lands, with its castle of Lochmaben. The Bohun line has long being associated to the baronial opposition against the crown, something rather born out personal gain than true conviction, because the earls had some inherited liberties, specially in their Welsh domains, that would greatly chafe under an empowered Crown. Interestingly, and despite the record of his family, the earl of Hereford was married to the king’s daughter, Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, widowed countess of Holland, to whose wedding Humphrey had attended, in 1302. It isn’t know what, exactly, led the king to forge such a match, but maybe the earl of Hereford had taken the eye of the princess and Edward himself believed him to be a fair husband for Elizabeth, for Humphrey was one of the first earls of the realm in terms of wealth and influence. Whatever had motivated the match, it proved, noneless, fruitful, Elizabeth and Humphrey were soon smitten by each other and managed to father a surprisingly high number of children in the next ten years. Humphrey is deeply attached to his wife; he has even grown slightly dependant on her advice and company. Humphrey is a truly cultured man, fluent in Latin and Greek, arithmetic and trigonometry, history, rethoric and astrology. The only reason why is a single man, Master Diogenes, a Sicilian Greek brought to England by Eleanor de Castille and later hired by her cousin, Maud de Fiennes, the queen’s maternal cousin, to serve as her son’s tutor. A star-gazer, an absent-minded scholar, a forked-bearded man, like a prophet of the Old Testament, and likely a recalcitrant schismatic, Diogenes is a deeply unusual man. He managed to instill such love for knowledge in his pupil, Humphrey, that the earl later appointed him as tutor for his numerous children with Elizabeth. Well-educated, Humphrey is a book collector, owning a sizable library, comparable to those owned by some bishops. All in all, and compared to other peers, Humphrey is a rather unconventional man. He takes a great pride on his ancient ancestry, that can be traced to the Swan Knight of yore, and thus is eager to remind everyone of this by wearing his badge of the swan almost every time. In occasion of the Bannockburn campaign, Bohun, hereditary Lord Constable of England, expected to be named as constable of the army, but to his surprise, Gilbert de Clare was. Outraged by this, he quarrelled to no end with his nephew-in-law, to the desmay and exasperation of literally everyone else. The first day of the battle he had to witness as his cousin, Henry de Bohun, was killed by the Scottish pretender, and the second day, despite his almost successful efforts in breaking the schiltrons, the complete defeat of the English army. He sought refuge at the castle of Bothwell, alongside Ralph de Umfraville, but was unfortunately handed to Robert Bruce, who once-upon-a-time was Bohun’s own neighbour in Essex. A quite gloomy earl remains in captivity for the time being, caged by a man who he had known since childhood, in a country that he once cared so little about that he left it to join a tourney. Family Tree Sir Humphrey de Bohun, son of the 2nd Earl of Hereford (b. 1221–d. 1265), married (1) Eleanor de Braose (b. 1228–d. 1251), (2) Joan de Quincy: (1) Eleanor de Bohun (b. 1246-d. 1314), married Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby (b. 1239-d. 1279): John de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley (b. 1271). Eleanor de Ferrers (b. 1274-d. 1314), married Robert FitzWalter, 1st Baron FitzWalter (b. 1247): Robert FitzWalter (b. 1300). Ida FitzWalter (b. 1304). (1) Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford (b. 1248-d. 1298), married Maud de Fiennes (b. 1254-d. 1298): Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford (b. 1279), married Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (b. 1282): Margaret de Bohun (b. 1303-d. 1309). Humphrey de Bohun (b.&d. 1304). John de Bohun (b. 1308). Humphrey de Bohun (b. 1309). Margaret de Bohun (b. 1310). Eleanor de Bohun (b. 1311). Edward de Bohun (b. 1312). William de Bohun (b. 1312). Eneas de Bohun (b. 1313). (1) Margery de Bohun (b. 1249-d. 1280), married Theobald de Verdun, Constable of Ireland (b. 1248-d. 1309): Theobald de Verdun, Constable of Ireland (b. 1278). (1) Gilbert de Bohun (b. 1251-d. 1298), married Margaret: Gilbert de Bohun (b. 1295).