0 @IHL1700@ INDI
1 SUBM @SIHL1@
1 NAME William /de Mohun/
1 SEX M
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1155
1 NOTE Presumed son, though probably not the eldest. He was present at the Council of Northampton in 1131. In the civil war, he sided with the Empress Maud, and in 1138 Dunster Castle was beseiged by Stephen, who, however, found it too strong to take.
2 CONC The Empress created William an Earl, April-June 1141. He attested a charter of the Empress at Midsummer 1141 as Earl William de Mohun, and styled himself, ca 1142, Earl of Somerset in his charter to Bruton Priory, which he founded.
1 SOUR Vivian. The Visitations of Cornwall. p. 323.
1 SOUR Mohun. Complete Peerage. v ix pp 17-25.
1 SOUR Weis. 143-25.
1 FAMS @FHL887@
1 FAMC @FHL897@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 1994

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