also Essex's ancestor* Since his father John of Gaunt held the senior title of duke of Lancaster, Bolingbroke was created, successively, earl and duke of Hereford in right of his wife Mary, heiress of the de Bohun earldoms of Hereford and Essex* Essex's great-grandfather had been promoted from baron to Viscount Hereford in 1550 and his own father had been promoted to become ea
I noticed that genealogy was an important factor throughout our reading