WURTS MAGNA CHARTA provided a brief accounting of the feudalheadquarters of some of the Magna Charta Barons. Some of thecastles have been badly damaged. Some have disappeared entirely.Often we can learn of them through Medieval and Renaissanceaccounts, and some of them require the discerning eye of thearcheologist. Others await the evidence brought out with ashovel and pick, by the trained archeological historian.A portion of the information concerning Surety Baron HENRY deBOHUN is as follows:HENRY de BOHUN, the Surety, was born before 1177. He became thefirst Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was so created bythe Charter of King John, dated 28 April 1199. Even though hetook the Barons' side against the King, on becoming Earl ofHereford he had promised that he would never make any claimagainst John or his heirs, on the basis of a Charter given tohis great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office of Lord HighConstable of England he inherited from his father, but he seemsto have played no other active part in John's government. As hetook a prominent part with the Barons against King John, hislands were confiscated, but he received them again at thegranting of Magna Charta. Having been excommunicated along withthe other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on thedecease of King John, but became one of the commanders in theArmy of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and wastaken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat he joinedSaire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimageto the Holy Land in 1220, and died on the passage 1 June 1220.His body was brought home and buried in the chapter-house ofLlanthony Abbey in Gloucestershire. His wife, Maud FitzGeoffrey, was the daughter of GeoffreyFitzPiers, Baron de Mandeville, and his first wife, BeatrixSaye. The name of Bohun suggests Hereford. Unfortunately, HerefordCastle no longer exists. It was built in 1048, and apparentlyconsisted of a moat and bailey. The mound has been leveled tothe ground, but the bailey is outlined by high banks. One reporthas it that all that remains is a platform and a piece of aditch. The Castle was once situated near the present Bishop's Palace.It was seriously battered in an attack in 1055, but it wasrestored, and was again in use in 1067. The site which it nowoccupies is a public garden, gay with shrubbery and flowers. Anornamental lake indicates where once was the moat, but theoutlines of the walls are shown only by grass covered ridges. Appreciation is expressed to Reed M. W. Wurts, one of theHeralds of the Society for furnishing the Barons Shield on thispage.