Margaret de Huntingdon Princess of Scotland

  General Notes:

Emperor Charlemgne's Descendants, p. 109, Humphrey de Bohun IV was her second husband, m. after 1171 ⁵³⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Henry de Bohun, hereditary Constable of England, was son and heir of Humphrey de Bohun, who was also hereditary Constable of England. His mother was Margaret, widow of Conan (le Petit), the Duc de Bretagne and Earl of Richmond. Margaret was the daughter of Prince Henry of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, by Ada, daughter of William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey. He was therefore the nephew to William, the Lion, King of Scotland. Henry was the grandson of another Humphrey de Bohun by Margaret, eldest daughter and eventually coheir of Miles (of Gloucester), Earl of Hereford and Constable of England. Having inherited through his aforesaid grandmother the principal estates of the former earls, he was created, 28 April 1200, by charter dated at Porchester, Earl of Hereford. After the coronation he was sent (1200) with the Bishop of Durham and the Earl of Norfolk to conduct his Uncle William, King of Scotland, to do homage at Lincoln.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Hereford), Vol. VI, pp. 457-459

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Margret of Huntingdon.
Margaret of Huntingdon, the widow of Conan IV "le Petit" Duke of Brittany and daughter of Henry of Scotland Earl of Huntindon & Northumberland & his wife Ada de Warenne, married Humphrey de Bohun. The origin and first marriage are deduced from Benedict of Peterborough recording that "filia sororis regis Scotiæ Willelmi comitissa Brittaniæ" gave birth in 1186 to "filium…Arturum" [Benedict of Peterborough I 1186, p. 361]. Her birth date is estimated from the Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 which records property "villam de Wissinton" held by "Margareta comitissa…xl annorum", adding that "comes Britannie habet filiam suam" and that she has "i filium de Humfrido de Buun qui est infra etatem" [Rotuli Dominabus, Rotuli V, Norffolk, p. 33]. The Genealogia Comitum Richemundiæ records that "Conanus filius Alani" married "Margaretam sororem Willielmi Regis Scotie" [Genealogia Comitum Richemundiæ post conquestum Angliæ, RHGF XII, p. 569]. A manuscript which narrates the descents of the founders of Lanthony Abbey records that "dominus Humfridus quartus de Bohun, comes Herefordiæ et constabularius Angliæ" married "Margaretam comitissam Britanniæ" [507]. The Annals of Burton record the death in 1201 of "Margareta mater…Constantiæ, soror Willelmi regis Scotiæ, mater Henrici de Boum comitis Herefordiæ" [Dugdale Monasticon VI, Lanthony Abbey, Gloucestershire, II, Fundatorum progenies, p. 134].

Margaret married Humphrey de Bohun Constable of England, son of Humphrey de Bohun Constable of England and Margaret of Hereford, in 1175 in England ^141,160.^,530 (Humphrey de Bohun Constable of England was born about 1144 in England, died in 1182 in England ^160,530 and was buried in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucester, England.)

Margaret next married Conan, Duc de Bretagne, son of Alain de Bretagne Earl of Richmond and Bertha de Bretagne. (Conan, Duc de Bretagne died on 20 Feb 1177 in Richmond Castle, North Riding Yorkshire, England ¹⁴¹ and was buried in 1177 in Sawtrey Abbey, Huntingdonshire, England ¹⁴¹.)