Badlesmere, Elizabeth (fl. 1315–1342)

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Badlesmere, Elizabeth (fl. 1315–1342)

Countess of Northampton. Flourished from 1315 to 1342; daughter of Bartholomew Badlesmere (d.1322), Lord Badlesmere, and Margaret de Clare (fl. 1280–1322); married Edmund Mortimer (d. around 1331), 3rd baron of Wigmore; married William Bohun (c. 1312–1360), 1st earl of Northampton; children: (first marriage) Roger Mortimer (1328–1359), 2nd earl of March; (second marriage)Elizabeth Fitzalan (d. 1385); Humphrey Bohun (1342–1372), earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton.

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