Josceline de Bohon

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Josceline de Bohon, or Joscelyn fitz Richard de Bohon (c. 1111 - 1184), was an English religious leader.

De Bohon was appointed Archdeacon of Winchester in 1139 and Bishop of Salisbury in 1142. His brother was Richard fitz Richard de Bohon, l'Êvêque de Coutanches, (b. 1109; d. 1179), who served as Bishop of Coutances (1151-1179 and was appointed Chancellor of Normandy for King Henry II).

Josceline de Bohon's son was Reginald fitz Josceline de Bohon, Archdeacon of Wiltshire (consc. 8 December 1161), and Abbot of St. Exuperius, Corbeil (Normandy). Called "the Lombard," he was sent to Rome on king's business in 1167.

There were various spellings of this surname -- Bohun, Bohon, Boun, Bown, etc. -- This reflects a time before mass communication (and mass literacy. Such variety seems determined less by time or region, but more in accordance with individual scribes and clerks attempting to render phonetic spellings.

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• Archdeacons: Wiltshire, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 4: Salisbury (1991), pp. 33-7.
• Archdeacons of Winchester Diocese, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 2: Monastic cathedrals (northern and southern provinces) (1971), pp. 91-2. [1]
• Morey, A. and C. N. L. Brooke, eds. Letters and Charters of Gilbert Foliot, ed. Cambridge, 1967) p. 530.
• Prebendaries: Islington, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 1: St. Paul's, London (1968), pp. 57-9.