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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., of Groby (in Ratby), Leicestershire, Woodham Ferris, Stebbing, and Fairstead, Essex, Ware, Hertfordshire, Newbottle, Northamptonshire, Constable of Scotland, 2nd son, born about 1240. In 1251 his father gave him the manor and advowson of Woodham, the manor of Stebbing, the capital messuage at Chiche (now St. Osyth), and lands in Fairstead, Essex, to hold in tail general, by the service of five knights' fees. Between four and five years later, before he was of age, he had livery of these lands; subsequently he exchanged them with his mother for lands in Scotland and Galloway, but he again had entry therein, with her consent, 16 days before her death in Feb. 1280/1. About 1260 his brother, Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, gave him the manor of Bolton (in Great Bolton), Lancashire, together with all his lands in the wapentake of Leyland, Lancashire, including the manors of Bispham, Bolton, Bretherton, Charnock (in Chamock Richard), Chorley, Duxbury, Heath Chamock, Mawdesley, Shevington, and Welch Whittle, Lancashire. He married (1st) in 1270 ANNE DURWARD, widow of Colban of Fife, Knt., 8th Earl of Fife (died 1270), and daughter and co-heiress of Alan Durward, Knt., of Coull and Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire, Lintrathen, Angus, Lundin, Fife, Reedie (in Airlie), Forfarshire, Urquhart, Moray, etc., Usher of the King of Scots, Justiciar of Scotland, by Marjory, illegitimate daughter of Alexander II, King of Scots [see SCOTLAND 5.i for her ancestry]. They had one son, William, Knt. [1st Lord Ferrers of Groby]. He was summoned for military service from 18 March 1263/4 to 14 March 1282/3. He was among the prisoners taken after the conflict at Northampton 5 or 6 April 1264, and was committed by Edward the king's son to the custody of Roger de Leybourne. Roger demanded an excessive ransom, threatening to take him to Ireland if he did not pay it; on 5 Jan. 1264/5 Roger was ordered to release him and let him come to the king. William was admitted to the king's presence and pardoned all trespasses committed by him up to 11 July 1266. Sometime before 1272 he gave to Charley Priory, Leicestershire 5-1/2 acres near their sheepfold, for the purpose of enlarging the courtyard of the priory; he likewise gave the same priory 30 acres of land in the Milne-leghs by Charley, Leicestershire. His wife, Anne, was co-heiress in 1275 to her father, by which she inherited the baronies of Coull, O'Neill, and Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire. In 1275-6 Adam de Holand claimed and recovered 16 acres in Buxton, Lancashire of William de Ferrers. In 1277-8 Henry de Asteleg' arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Chorley, Lancashire. In the same period, William son of Henry de Holecroft arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching common of pasture in Chorley, Lancashire. In May 1280 the king permitted William to retain the manor of Groby (in Ratby), Leicestershire, of which his mother had enfeoffed him, for a fine of 40 marks. In 1280-1 Henry le Fevre arraigned an assize against him touching a fosse levied in Chorley, Lancashire. In 1280-1 he arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against John de Roselis touching a tenement in Newbotde, Northamptonshire. He was with the king in the army of Wales in 1282. He was summoned to attend the king at Shrewsbury 28 June 1283, by writ directed Willelmo de Ferrariis. He was summoned to a military council 14 June 1287. He married (2nd) ELEANOR DE LOVAINE, daughter of Matthew de Lovaine, Knt., of Little Easton, Essex, by his wife, Muriel. SIR WILLIAM DE FERRERS died shortly before 20 Dec. 1287. In 1288 custody of his lands was granted to Nicholas de Segrave [the younger] for a fine of 100 marks and £160 per annum. His widow, Eleanor, subsequently journeyed to Scotland with the view of obtaining possession of the jointure to which she was entitled from the lands held by her deceased husband in Scotland. She was abducted by WILLIAM DE DOUGLAS, Knt., nicknamed The Hardy, of Douglas, Lanarkshire, Faudon, Northumberland, etc., from the manor of Ellen la Zouche at Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland shortly before 28 Jan. 1288/9, on which date the Sheriff of Northumberland was ordered to take his lands into the king's hand and arrest and imprison him. Douglas was imprisoned in Leeds Castle, Kent, but was released 15 May 1290. Upon the payment of a fine of £100, the marriage of Eleanor was granted to him 18 Feb. 1290/1, which marriage soon afterwards took place, she becoming his second wife. They had two sons, Hugh [clerk] and Archibald, Knt. He is first mentioned in 1256, when his father, William de Douglas, Knt., declared before a court that he had provided him lands in Warndon, Northumberland, with two guardians, as he was then under age. In 1267 he was severely wounded in defense of his father's house at Faudon, Northumberland. In 1288 he imprisoned Hugh de Abernethy, Knt., in his castle of Douglas, who was one of the assassins of Duncan, Earl of Fife. In 1291 he was commanded by King Edward I of England to release the prisoner to William de St. Clare. The same year he and other Scottish magnates did homage to King Edward I as Lord Paramount of Scotland. He was one of the barons who disregarded the summons calling upon them to attend the first Parliament held by John de Balliol as King of Scotland 10 Feb. 1292. Shortly afterwards he refused to pay part of his mother's jointure, in consequence of which she proceeded against him before the justiciaries and obtained a judgment, appointing her to be infeft in certain lands, and awarding her 140 marks in damages. When the officers of the king proceeded to Douglas to execute this decree, he seized them and confined them for a night. He was arraigned before the king's second Parliament held at Sterling 3 August 1293. He pleaded that the officers were wrong in levying the damages so soon. He was, nevertheless, found guilty, and committed to prison, but soon released. In October 1295 he was appointed Governor of Berwick Castle when that place was besieged by King Edward I of England. The town having been taken by storm 30 March, he capitulated the same day on security for life and limb. After swearing fealty to the English monarch 10 June 1296, his lands in the shires of Fife, Edinburgh, Berwick, Dumfries, and Wigtown were restored to him by special favor; his manor of Fawdon, Northumberland, however, was made over to Gilbert de Umfreville, Earl of Angus. His submission was of short duration, however, for he soon joined Wallace in the spring of 1297, in consequence of which Robert de Brus laid waste his lands in Douglasdale, and carried his wife and family captive into Annandale. He obtained possession of Sanquhar Castle by stratagem, in which place he was besieged until relieved by Wallace. He was one of the leaders of the Scottish host, when in the neighborhood of Irvine, it found itself in the presence of the English army under the command of Percy 9 July 1297. He was one of the chief negotiators of the Treaty of Irvine then made, which treaty failed to secure the submission of Scotland. Finding that many of the barons for whom he had acted drew back from the agreement and delayed the delivery of their hostages, he considered himself bound in honor to surrender to the English generals, by whom he was conveyed to Roxburgh. On 12 October following, SIR WILLIAM DE DOUGLAS was sent to the Tower 12 October 1297, where he died shortly before 24 Jan. 1298/9. After his death, the lands which his widow, Eleanor, held in dower of her first husband were restored to her, those in England 24 Jan. 1298/9, and those in Scotland 22 July 1302. In 1305 she sued Robert de Umfreville and Lucy his wife for dower in the manor of Faudon (in Ingram), Northumberland. Eleanor married (39 shortly after 8 April 1305 (date of license to marry) WILLIAM BAGOT, Knt., of The Hyde (in Coppenhall) and Patshull, Staffordshire, son and heir of William Bagot, Knt., of The Hyde (in Coppenhall) and Patshull, Staffordshire, by his wife, Isabel. They had no issue. In 1295 John parson of Weston under Brewood sued him and his brother, Robert Bagot, clerk, for deforcing him of four acres of wood and 40 acres of pasture in Wilbrighton, Staffordshire. In 1296 he was about to proceed to Gascony with Robert Fitz Walter in the retinue of Edmund the king's brother. In 1297, as “William Bagod, junior,†he recovered a messuage and a carucate of land in Patshull, Staffordshire in a suit against Roger Peye. He was serving in Scotland in 1298, 1300, 1301, and 1306. In 1303 he obtained a grant of free warren in his demesne lands at The Hyde (in Coppenhall), Staffordshire. In 1305 the manors of The Hyde (in Coppenhall) and Patshull, Staffordshire were settled on him and his wife, Eleanor. In 1313 one messuage and a carucate of land in Wilbrighton, Staffordshire was settled on William and Eleanor, and the heirs of their bodies, with reversion to Archibald de Douglas, son of Eleanor. At an unknown date, William conveyed the manor of The Hyde (in Coppenhall), Staffordshire to Ralph de Stafford, Lord Stafford. He also sold the manor of Patshull, Staffordshire. SIR WILLIAM BAGOT died about 1324. In 1326 she conveyed her life interest in the manor of The Hyde (in Coppenhall) to Ralph de Stafford, Lord Stafford. She was living in 1327. At her death, she was buried in Dunmow Priory, Essex.
Hume of Godscroft Hist. of the House of Douglas & Angus (1644): 16 (author identifies 2nd wife of William de Douglas as "an English lady named Ferrers"). Shaw Hist. & Antiqs. of Staffordshire 1 (1798): 39 (Ferrers ped.). Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicester 3(1) (1800): 121. Erdeswicke Survey of Staffordshire (1820): 268-269. Riddell Remarks Upon Scotch Peerage Law (1833): 176-177 (states Eleanor de Lovaine was the wife successively of Colban, Earl of Fife, William de Ferrers, and William de Douglas). Leighton Hist. of Fife 1 (1840): 27. Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 110. Edward I. of England in the North of Scotland (1858): 71, 95. Irving & Murray Upper Ward of Lanarkshire 2 (1864): 61-65. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 28 (1867): 67; 36 (1875): 17-18; 47 (1886): 191; 50 (1889): 54,163. Stevenson Docs. of the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1870): 83-86, 214. Ballad Minstrelsy of Scotland (1871): 63-67 ("And in a note we are further 'informed, that in a MS collection of English records, the second wife of William Ferrers, who died 16th Edward I., is stated to have been Comitissa de Fife, in Scotia, vidua Colbani et mater Macduffi, Comitum de Fife.' - Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, second edition, edited by J.P. Wood, vol. i, p. 420."). Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXIII-XXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 100-107. Bain Cal. Docs. Rel. Scotland 2 (1884): 359. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 6(1)) (1885): **73-80; 7(1) (1886): *33-37, *37-46,134-144; (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 11) (1890): **4-8; (Coils. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): **158-160. Chalmers Caledonia 3 (1888): 432. D.N.B. 15 (1888): 354-355 (biog. of William de Douglas). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 50 (1889): 163. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 387. Page Three Early Assize Rolls for Northumberland (Surtees Soc. 88) (1891): xviii, 147. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 280 (seal of Sir William de Ferrers of Groby dated early [sic] 13th Cent. - To the right. In armour: hauberk and surcoat. Horse caparisoned. Arms: mascles (number uncertain) for FERRERS. Legend wanting.), 790 (seal of Eleanor de Ferrers, widow of William Bagot, Knt. dated 1326- A shield of arms: per pale, dex., vaire, a bordure semee of horseshoes [FERRERS]; sin., a fess between eight billets, three, two, two and one [LOVAINE]. Between three eagles displayed, in allusion to the arms of BAGOT, viz., a bend between three eagles displayed. Within a moulded quatrefoil with a mullet in each of the spandtils). Jeayes Desc. Cat. of the Charters & Muniments in the Possession of the Rt. Hon. Lord Fitzhardinge (1892): 118. C.P.R. 1281-1292 (1893): 295. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 158-160. Norris Baddesley Clinton, its Manor, Church & Hall (1897): 63-64 ("The windows at Baddesley are a treasure in themselves ... Therein may be read, as in open volumes, the descent and the alliances of the house of Ferrers ... Most of the shields were set up in the early part of the seventeenth century, though a few bear date in the sixteenth ... In two large windows of the hall opening on the courtyard are twelve shields of arms surmounted by earls' and barons' coronets, and having inscriptions beneath indicating the alliances commemorated [including] ... . 7. Ferrers of Groby impaling Lovaine. Gules, semée of billets, or, a fesse, argent; [inscription:] "William Ferrers, lord Fetters of Groby, married Elenor, daughter of Mathew lord Lovaine of Stanes."), 112-117. C.P.R. 1301-1307 (1898): 328. Procs. Soc. of Antiqs. of Scotland 3rd Ser. 10 (1900): 241-251. Maxwell Hist. of the House of Douglas 1 (1902): 20-28. Macdonald Scottish Armorial Seals (1904): 73 (seal of Sir William de Douglas: On a chief three stars. At top and sides of shield wyverns). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 43, 79, 104, 276. Cal. IPM 2 (1906): 237, 323. Scots Peerage 3 (1906): 138-142 (sub Earl of Douglas) ("Sir William Douglas, known as 'le Hardi,' Lord of Douglas, as he described himself, being the first of his family to assume the full baronial style"); 4 (1907): 10-11 (sub Ancient Earls of Fife); 6 (1909): 135-137 (sub Earls of Menteith). Colls. Hist. Staffs. n.s. 11(1908): 128-140, 144 (re. Bagot fam.); 1911 (1911): 64-65. Feudal Aids 5 (1908): 16. C.F.R. 1(1911): 345,357. VCH Lancashire 5 (1911): 243-251; 6 (1911): 1-2, 17-23, 96-100, 100-102, 102-108, 129-149, 199-203, 203-204, 204-208, 208-213, 213-217. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 380-397. C.P. 4 (1916): 432 (chart) (sub Douglas); 5 (1926): 332, 340-342 (sub Ferrers), 373 (sub Fife); 8 (1932): 178-179 (sub Lovaine). Fatter Honors & Knights' Fees 2 (1924): 240-242. VCH Stafford 5 (1959): 138-143. List of Diplomatic Does., Scottish Docs. & Papal Bulls (PRO Lists and Indexes 49) (rept. 1963): 188. Beardwood Trial of Walter Langton, Bishop of Lichfield 1307-1312 (Trans. American Philosophical Soc. n.s. 54 (3)) (1964): 14-17. VCH Leicester 5 (1964): 321-330. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 199 (charter of Robert de Ferrers, son and heir of William de Ferrers, formerly Earl of Derby dated 1260-66; charter witnessed by his brother, William de Ferrers). Saul Scenes from Provincial Life (1986): 32-33. Bower Scotichronicon 5 (1987): 381 (sub A.D. 1270: "The death also occurred of Colban earl of Fife, whose earldom was entrusted to Alexander the king's son until Colban's son [Duncan], the true heir and a boy of eight, came of age. In the same year William [de] Ferrers, son of the countess of Ferrers, who was the daughter of Roger de Quincy constable of Scotland, married the widow of the Colban who had recently died, and received the dignity of constable, which Alexander earl of Buchan unjustly held on the strength of his wife, who was a younger daughter of the said Roger de Quincy."), 485 (editorial note states in error that Anne, widow of Colban, Earl of Fife, was "the daughter of Sir Hugh le Despenser, who had served as Justiciar of England during the period of Baronial Reform, and had died at Evesham"). Lamont- Brown Fife in Hist. & Legend (2002): x (identifies Ann, wife of Colbran, Earl of Fife, as "daughter of Sir Alan Durward."). Boardman & Ross Exercise of Power in Medieval Scotland (2003): 132, 136 (author states "Alan Purwardrs daughter probably married Earl Colban (1266-70)(2)1 Brown Wars of Scotland 1214-1371 (2004): 160-161. McAndrew Scotland's Hist. Heraldry (2006): 37 (ped. of Earls of Fife) (author identifies Anne, wife of Colban, 8th Earl of Fife, as "Anne Durward"), 38, 43 (arms of Alan Durward: Argent, a chief gules), 71, 111, 113, 140-141 ("[William de Douglas] ... His ... seal of 1296/7 beating On a chief, three mullets (SAS651) is the earliest representation of the Douglas arms."). Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studie: Personal & Fam. Papers of the Capells, Earls of Essex, DE/M/32; DE/M/43 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). National Archives, SC 8/9/448 available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of William de Ferrers, Knt., by Anne Durward:
i. WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., 1st Lord Ferrers of Groby [see next].
Child of Anne Durward, by Colban of Fife:
i. DUNCAN OF FIFE, 9th Earl of Fife, married JOAN DE CLARE [see CLARE 8.ii].
Children of Eleanor de Lovaine, by William de Douglas, Knt.:
i. HUGH DE DOUGLAS, clerk. He was born about 1294 (aged 2 in 1296). He was taken into custody at his father's manor of Stebbing, Essex when aged nearly two, at a time when his father was in rebellion against King Edward I of England. He became Canon of Glasgow before 17 May 1325, when he was noted as being absent from the meeting of the Glasgow chapter. He witnessed an act of John de Lindsay, Bishop of Glasgow in 1329. He was heir in 1333 to his nephew, William de Douglas, lord of Douglas, son of his older half-brother, James de Douglas. He made various grants from his inheritance in the period, 1332 12, including grants as lord of Douglas at Edinburgh dated 1342. He resigned the whole Douglas inheritance to the king at Aberdeen 26 May 1342; three days later it was granted to his. nephew, William de Douglas, Knt., afterwards 1st Earl of Douglas. He retained his tight as Prebendary of Old Roxburgh held in the Cathedral church of Glasgow until 8 Feb. 1347/8, when he resigned this position through his proctor on exchange for the church of Skirling, Peeblesshire. About 1362 he was still owing annates for this church, but he was described by the collector in his accounts as imp otens in facultatibus. He died unmarried. Maxwell Hist. of the House of Dotglas (1902). C.P.R. 1345-1348 (1903): 222. C.P.R. 1348-1350 (1905): 10. Scots Peerage 3 (1906): 138-142 (sub Earl of Douglas). C.P. 4 (1916): 432 (chart) (sub Douglas). Stevenson & Wood Scottish Heraldic Seals 2 (1940): 317 (seal of Hugh de Douglas). Watt Biog. Dict. of Scottish Graduates to A.D. 1410 (1977): 152 (biog. of Hugh de Douglas).
ii. ARCHIBALD DE DOUGLAS, Knt., of Liddesdale, Regent of Scotland, 1333. He married BEATRICE DE LINDSAY, daughter of Alexander de Lindsay, of Crawford. They had two sons, John and William, Knt. [Earl of Douglas and Mar], and one daughter, Eleanor. In 1320 the king granted him lands in Morebattle, Roxburghshite and Kirkandrews, Dumfriesshire. In 1324 he was granted the lands of Rattray Orimond, Carnglass, and others in Buchan. He acted in vigorous opposition to the claims of Edward de Balliol to the Scottish throne. In 1332 Gilbert son of Robert de Umfreville sued him regarding the manor of Faudon (in Ingram), Northumberland. SIR ARCHIBALD DE DOUGLAS was slain at the Battle of Halidon Hill 19 July 1333. At the time of his death, he owned the baronies of Cavers, Drumlanrig, Terregles, and Westcalder, and part of Conveth in Aberdeenshire. In 1335 his widow, Beatrice, was residing in the fortress of Cumbernauld, when it was besieged by the English. She and other noble ladies were compelled to surrender, but apparently were not kept prisoners very long. Sometime in the period, 1335-8, Duncan, Earl of Fife, granted the barony of West Calder, Midlothian to Beatrice and her son and heir, John de Douglas. Beatrice married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) ROBERT DE ERSKINE, Knt., of Erskine, High Chamberlain of Scotland, 1350-7,1363-4, Keeper of Stirling Castle, son and heir of William de Erskine, Knt. They had two sons, Thomas, Knt. and Nicholas (of Kinnoull), and one daughter, Marion (wife of Maurice Drummond, of Concraig). At an unknown date, he had a charter of lands in the holding of Erskine by Robert Stewart, Steward of Scotland, which grant was confirmed by the king in 1352. His wife, Beatrice, died before 1352. In some private quarrel, he wounded and imprisoned Walter de Menteith and his brother. To appease the feud thus engendered, a marriage was arranged about 1352 between him and Walter de Menteith's kinswoman, Christian Menteith, widow of Edward Keith, Knt., of Sinton, and daughter of John Menteith, Knt, of Arran, Strathgartney, and Knapdale. He and Christian were subsequently dispensed 6 March 1355 to remain in marriage, she and his 1st wife, Beatrice, being related in the 4th degree of consanguinity. They had no surviving issue. He was very active in promoting the release of King David II. In 1357 he was one of the Scottish plenipotentiaries sent to treat with England regarding the king's ransom. He was employed on several embassies, chiefly to England, but also to the French and Papal Courts. In 1358 he had a charter from Thomas, Earl of Mar, of the lands of Garioch. In 1361 he granted Kintulach, Perthshire to Cambuskenneth Abbey. In 1362 he granted the patronage of the church of Kinnoull to the same abbey. In 1368 he received a charter conferring on him and his wife, Christian, the lands of Alloa, Galbardstoun, Isle of Clackmannan, the New Park near Stirling, land called Brewhaugh in the Forest of Clackmannan, plus other lands. He did homage at the Coronation of King Robert II in 1371. In 1373 he exchanged the lands of Ednam for an annual rent of £100. In 1376 he resigned the barony of Dun, Forfarshire to his son, Thomas. He was a frequent attender of Parliament and Council up to 1384. SIR ROBERT DE ERSKINE died shortly before Martinmas 1385. His widow, Christian, died about 1387. Buchanan Tracts Ill. of the Traditionary & Hist. Antiqs. of Scotland (1836): 155-156. Misc, of the Spalding Club 4 (1849): lxxiii (Thomas de Erskyne [Erskine], Knt., and his father, Robert de Erskyne [Erskine], Knt., both styled "kinsman" [consanguineo] by King Robert II in charter dated 1376). Charters & other Does. Rel the RoyalBuIgh of Stirling (1884): 183 (William [de Douglas], Earl of Douglas and Marr, Archibald de Douglas, Knt., and Robert de Erskine, Knt., styled "king's kinsmen" in charter of King Robert II of Scotland dated 1383). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Coils. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 158-160. Papal Regs.: Petitions 1 (1896): 286 (Christiana de Keth [Keith] styled "kinswoman" of King David II of Scotland in 1355; Walter de Menteith and his unnamed brother styled "kinsmen" of Christiana de Keth [Keith]). Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 564 (papal mandate dated 6 March 1355 to dispense Robert de Erskine and Christina de Keth [Keith] to remain in marriage which they have contracted). Maxwell Hist. of the House of Douglas (1902). Scots Peerage 3 (1906): 138-142 (sub Earl of Douglas); 5 (1908): 592-599 (sub Erskine, Earl of Mar). Arch. Aeliana 3rd Set. 6 (1910): 46. C.P. 4 (1916): 430-431,432 (chart) (sub Douglas). Watt Biog. Diet. of Scottish Graduates to AD. 1410 (1977): 153 (biog. of John de Douglas).
Children of Archibald de Douglas, Knt., by Beatrice de Lindsay:
a. JOHN DE DOUGLAS. He is mentioned in a charter dated 1335-8, as heir of his mother. He may be the John de Douglas who was at the court of King David II of Scotland in 1338-9. He appears to have accompanied King David II to Normandy, and in 1340 formed one of his household at Château Gaillard. He died without issue overseas before 29 May 1342, when the Douglas estates were settled on his younger brother, William, as heir of their father. Scots Peerage 3 (1906): 142 (sub Earl of Douglas). Watt Biog. Dict. of Scottish Graduates to A.D. 1410 (1977): 153 (biog. of John de Douglas).
b. WILLIAM DE DOUGLAS, Knt., 2nd son but only surviving son. He was heir in or before 1342 to his older brother, John de Douglas. He distinguished himself against the English in Scotland, 1346-56. He slew his kinsman, William de Douglas, of Liddesdale, in August 1353. He was wounded at the Battle of Poitiers 19 Sept. 1356. He married probably shortly before 13 Nov. 1357 MARGARET OF MAR, daughter of Donald, Earl of Mar, by Isabel Stewart. They had one son, James, Knt. [Earl of Douglas and Mar] [see BRUS 10.viii], and one daughter, Isabel [Countess of Mar and Garioch] (wife of Malcolm de Drummond, Knt., Lord of Mar, and Alexander Stewart, Knt., Earl of Mar and Garioch [see BRUS 10.iv.a]). By his sister-in-law, Margaret, Countess of Mar and Angus, he had one illegitimate son, George [1st Earl of Angus] [see BRUS 11.v]. By an unknown mistress, he also had two illegitimate daughters, Joan (wife of William Dacre, Knt., 5th Lord Dacre of Gilsland) and Margaret (wife of Thomas Johnson). He was present in the Parliament of Scotland held 20 Sept. 1397. In the following January, probably on the 26th, he was created Earl of Douglas. He attended the Coronation of King Robert II at Scone 26 March 1371. His wife, Margaret, was heiress c.1374 to her brother, Thomas, Earl of Mar, Lord of Garioch, by which she became suo jure Countess of Mar. SIR WILLIAM DE DOUGLAS, Earl of Douglas and Mar, died at Douglas in May 1384, and was buried at Melrose. His widow, Margaret, married (2nd) between 1385 and 27 July 1388 (as his 1st wife) JOHN DE SWINTON, Knt., of Swinton, and, in right of his wife, Lord of Mar. They had no issue. Margaret, Countess of Douglas and Mar, was living 5 Dec. 1389, and apparently 18 March 1390/1, but died before 22 Nov. 1393 (when her daughter is styled Countess of Mar). SIR JOHN SWINTON was killed at the Battle of Homildon Hill 14 Sept. 1402. MSS of the Duke of Hamilton, K.T. (Hist. MSS Comm. 11th Rpt., App, Part 6) (1887): 208 (William de Lyndesay styled "kinsman" [consanguineo] by William, Earl of Douglas, in precept dated 1366). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 158-160. Maxwell Hist, of the House of Douglas (1902). Scots Peerage Scots Peerage 1 (1904): 171-174 (sub Douglas, Earl of Angus); 3 (1906): 142,148-155 (sub Earl of Douglas); 5 (1908): 581-586 (sub Ancient Earls of Mar). C.P. 4 (1916): 430-431,432 (chart) (sub Douglas); 8 (1932): 404-408 (sub Mar). Watt Biog. Diet. of Scottish Graduates to AD. 1410 (1977): 153 (biog. of John de Douglas). Online Resource: Recs. of the Park. of Scotland, 1373/2 (William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, styled "kinsman" in charter dated 1373 of Robert the Steward of Scotland, Earl of Strathearn [afterwards King Robert II of Scotland]) (available at www.rps.ac.uk).
c. ELEANOR DE DOUGLAS, married (1st) ALEXANDER DE BRUS, Earl of Carrick [see BRUS 7.v.a], illegitimate son of Edward de Brus, Earl of Carrick, by Isabel, daughter of John de Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl [see BRUS 7.v for his ancestry]. They had no issue. He was slain at the Battle of Halidon Hill 19 July 1333. She married (2nd) JAMES DE SANDILANDS, Knt., of Calder, Midlothian. They had two sons, James, Knt., and Patrick. In 1350 he and his wife, Eleanor, obtained a papal indult to choose confessors. In May 1350 King David II confirmed the charter of William de Douglas, lord of Douglas, granting to James de Sandilands and his wife, Lady Eleanor de Brus (sister of the said William de Douglas) the barony of West Calder, Midlothian in free marriage. SIR JAMES DE SANDILANDS died in 1358. In May 1358 Eleanor de Brus, Countess of Carrick, was granted safe-conduct to go to England with Queen Joan of England, wife of King David II of Scotland. She married (3rd) WILLIAM DE TOWERS (or TOURS), Knt., of Dalry. In 1357 he and Archibald de Douglas, Knt. were granted safe-conduct to go to England with four horsemen. She married (4th) before October 1373 DUNCAN WALLACE (or WALAYS), Knt., of Sundrum, Ayrshire. In 1373 King Robert II granted the baronies of Sundrum, Dalmellington, and Auchencruive, Ayrshire to Duncan and his wife, Eleanor, with remainder, on failure of heirs, to Alan de Cathcart, Knt. SIR DUNCAN WALLACE died about 1376. She married (5th) by dispensation dated 18 March 1376 (she and his former wife, Agnes, being related in the 4th degree of kindred) PATRICK HEPBURN, Knt., of Hailes. Rymer Fædera 6 (1727): 66 (Duncan Walays, "valettus" of Thomas de Moray, in 1357), 76, 82. Procs. Soc. Antiqs. Scotland 3 (1862): 166-171. Hist. of West Calder (1885): 69-70. Scots Peerage 2 (1905): 436-437 (sub Bruce, Earl of Carrick), 506 (sub Cathcart); 3 (1906): 142 (sub Earl of Douglas); 8 (1911): 379-380 (sub Sandilands, Lord Torphichen). Miscellany 5 (Pubs. Scottish Hist. Soc. 3r1 Ser. 21) (1933): 33-34 (Duncan Walays, Knt., styled "uncle" [auunculi] of Alan de Cathkert, Knt. in charter dated 1386), 69. National Archives of Scotland, GD124/1/1121 (Lady Elianor de Bruys [Brus] styled "sister" by William de Douglas, of Douglas in charter dated 1354) (available at www.nas.gov.uk). Online resource: Recs. of the Parls. of Scotland, 1350/1 (available at www.rps.ac.uk).â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby, Constable of Bolsover Castle, 1235-6, son and heir, born about 1193. He married (1st) before 14 May 1219 SIBYL MARSHAL, died before 1238, 3rd daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal, by Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert (nicknamed "Strongbowâ€), 2nd Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil) [see MARSHAL 3 for her ancestry]. They had seven daughters, Agnes, Isabel, Maud, Sibyl, Joan, Agatha (wife of Hugh de Mortimer), and Eleanor. He was afflicted from youth with gout, and habitually travelled in a chariot or litter. He accompanied the king to France in 1230. He married (2nd) in or before 1238 MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, daughter and co-heiress of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, by his 1st wife, Ellen, daughter and co-heiress of Alan Fitz Roland, lord of Galloway, hereditary Constable of Scotland [see QUINCY 7 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Robert, Knt. [6th Earl of Derby], and William, Knt., and three daughters, Elizabeth, Joan, and Agnes. He had livery of Chardey Castle and the rest of his mother's lands 10 Nov. 1247. He was invested with the Earldom of Derby 2 Feb. 1247/8. In 1245 he was granted respite of forest offences because he "laboured under infirmity." He presented to the church of Brington, Northamptonshire in 1250. While passing over a bridge at St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, he was accidentally thrown from his chariot sustaining broken limb bones from which he never recovered. SIR WILLIAM DE FERRERS, 5th Earl of Derby, died at Evington, Leicestershire 24 (or 28) March 1254, and was buried at Merevale Abbey, Warwickshire. His widow, Margaret, presented to the churches of Keyston, Huntingdonshire, 1255, Irchester, Northamptonshire, 1267, and Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, 1268, 1275. She was co-heiress in 1264 to her father, Roger de Quincy, Knt., Earl of Winchester, by which she inherited the hereditary office of Constable of Scotland, together with the manors of Groby (in Ratby) and Thurnby, Leicestershire, Ware, Hertfordshire, Keyston and Southoe, Huntingdonshire, Chinnor, Oxfordshire, etc. In 1268-9 the Prior and convent of Lenton released the church of Irchester, Northamptonshire to Margaret de Ferrers, Countess of Derby, who in turn levied a fine of it to the use of herself and her heirs. In 1270 she resigned the office of Constable of Scotland to her brother-in-law, Alexander Comyn, Knt., Earl of Buchan. In 1270 Margaret and her sisters, Ellen and Elizabeth, gave license for the election of William de Shaldeston as Prior of the Hospital of St. James and St. John at Brackley, Northamptonshire. In 1272-3 Margaret arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against John le Fauconer, of Thurcaston, and others, touching a tenement in Groby, Leicestershire. In 1273 Philip de Fifife sued her for the next presentation to the church of Fyfield, Berkshire. In 1274-5 Ellen de Quincy and Alexander Comyn and his wife, Elizabeth, sued their sister, Margaret de Ferrers, Countess of Derby, regarding possessions in Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire. On the assignment of Quincy dower lands in 1275, Margaret was assigned a third part of the manor of Southoe Ferrers, Huntingdonshire, together with a third part of the chief messuage. In 1275-6 William de Karuill' arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against her touching a messuage and land in Brampton, Northamptonshire. Sometime in the period, 1275-9, she acquired the one-third share of the same manor assigned to her sister, Elizabeth Comyn, thus increasing Margaret's share to two-thirds. In 1276 Margaret had letters of protection, she then going to Scotland. In 1277-8 Alice widow of John de Kent arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her and others touching a tenement in Chardey, Staffordshire. About 1281 Margaret de Ferrers, Countess of Derby, Ellen la Zouche, and Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, and his wife, Elizabeth, sued Ranulph son of Robert de Neville and his wife, Euphame, regarding 11-1/2 virgates in Syston, Leicestershire. Margaret, Countess of Derby, died shortly before 12 March 1280/1, on which date custody of all lands late of the said Countess Margaret were granted by the king to Richard Fukeram to hold during pleasure, so that he cultivate and sow them and answer for the issues at the Exchequer. In 1282 custody of the manor of Southoe, Huntingdonshire late of Margaret, Countess of Derby, deceased was granted by the king to John de Aese, Vicomte of Tartas to hold during the minority of the heirs. The same month custody of the manor of Keyston, Huntingdonshire late of Margaret, Countess of Derby, deceased was likewise granted by the king to John de Byu.elard to hold during the minority of the heirs. In 1281 the king ratified the demise of John de Aysse, Vicomte of Tartas, to Baldwin Wake and Hawise his wife of custody of the manor of Southoe, Huntingdonshire which he had of the gift of the king by the extent of £40 2s. 8d. yearly to hold during the minority of the heirs of Margery, Countess of Derby.
Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 174, 180. Shaw Hist. & Antiqs. of Steffordshire 1 (1798): 39 (Ferrers ped). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 123-124 (Ferrers ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Burke Dict. of the Peerages ... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 442-443 (sub Quincy). Hunter Eccl. Docs. (Camden Soc. 8) (1840): 68. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Baines Hist. of the Commerce & Town of Liverpool 1 (1852): 97-133. Giles Matthew Paris's English Hist. 2 (1853): 251 (sub 1247: "In this year certain nobles died in England, amongst whom was William Fad Ferrers, a peaceable and good man, who died at a great age, about St. Catherine's day [25 Novemberl, after having suffered for a long time from gout ... The said earl therefore was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son and heir William, a good and discrete man, but who was miserably afflicted with the same disease as his father."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 317 (Annals of Burton sub 1254: "Willelmus de Ferrariis comes Derbeiæ obiit v. kal. Aptilis, apud Eventonam juxta Leycestriam, et sepultus est in capitulo de Mirevalle ii kal. Aprilis."). Skene Liber Pluscardensis 1 (Historians of Scotland 7) (1877): 136-137; 2 (Historians of Scotland 10) (1880): 102-103. Year Books of Edward Years XXXIII-XXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 100-107. Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 69-75. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 568; 44 (1883): 100; 45 (1885): 107, 152; 47 (1886): 186; 50(1889): 45, 92, 442, 460. Wrottesley Feet of Fines: Henry III (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 4) (1883): 238-259. Godfrey Hist. of the Parish & Priory of Lenton (1884): 82. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 548 (sub Derby). Miktag Service Performed Staffordshire Tenants (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 8(1)) (1887): 1-122. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 281 (seal of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby dated 1254 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk, surcoat, shield, sword. Horse galloping. Fine style of workmanship. Reverse. Small round counterseal. A shield of arms: wire, on a bordure eight horse-shoes [FERRERS]. Legend: * S WILL’I : COMITIS : DERB'.). Norris Baddesley Clinton, its Manor, Church & Hall (1897): 63-64 ("The windows at Baddesley are a treasure in themselves ... Therein may be read, as in open volumes, the descent and the alliances of the house of Ferrers ... Most of the shields were set up in the early part of the seventeenth century, though a few bear date in the sixteenth ... In two large windows of the hall opening on the courtyard are twelve shields of arms surmounted by earls' and barons' coronets, and having inscriptions beneath indicating the alliances commemorated [including] 6. Ferrers impaling Quinci. Gules, seven mascles, conjoined, or, 3, 3 and 1; [inscription:] “William Ferrers, earle of Derby, married Margaret, Lady of Groby, daughter of Roger Quincy, earle of Winchester."), 101-110. C.C.R. 1272-1279 (1900): 225-226. C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901): 93, 140, 427, 442, 459-460. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 104, 276, 501, 531-532, 548. Scots Peerage 3 (1906): 142. Cal. IPM 2 (1906): 237, 323. C.P. 4 (1916): 196-198 (arms of William de Ferrers: Sable (or Azure), an escutcheon vairy or and gules, and an orle of 8 horse-shoes argent), 199 (chart) (sub Derby); 5 (1926): foll. 320 (chart), 340; 12(2) (1959): 276-278 (sub Vescy). VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 380-397. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 8o Ser. 37) (1913): 35. Grosseteste Rank Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi I incolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 246, 248, 511. Year Books of Edward 13 (Selden Soc. 34) (1918): 59-67; 14(2) (Selden Soc. 43) (1927): 75-77. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 142 (fine dated 1256 between Ralph, Abbot of Croyland, and Margery countess of Ferrars). Davis Rotuli Ricardi Gravesend Episcopi Lincolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 20) (1925): 99, 109, 118, 129, 168. Rpt. on the MSS of Reginald Razvdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 323-342 (partition of estates of Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester). Cam Hundred & Hundred Rolls (1930): 276. VCH Huntingdon 2 (1932): 346-354. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 205: 4-6; 464: 1-8 (sub Quincy) (Margaret de Quincy and her step-mother, Eleanor, were each the step-mother and step-daughter of the other, the Earls of Derby, their husbands, having each married the other's daughter). Reid Wigtownshire Charters (Scottish Hist. Soc. 51) (1960): xxxix-xlv. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61, 63, 149. Painter Feudalism & Liberty (1961): 230-239. Beardwood Trial of Walter Langton, Bishop of Lichfield 1307-1312 (Trans. American Philosophical Soc. n.s. 54 (3)) (1964): 14-17. VCH Leicester 5 (1964): 321-330. Saltman Cartulary of Dale Abbey (Derbyshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 2) (1967): 341 (charter of William de Ferrers). VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 200-201. DeWindt Royal Justice & Medieval English Countryside 2 (1981): 590. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 41 (seal of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby dated 1249 - On horseback, galloping to right. He wears mail, long surcoat and flat-topped helmet, and holds a drawn sword and a shield of arms: vair, and a bordure [FERRERS1. Legend: +SIGILLVM:W/ILLELMEDE/FERRARIIS). VCH Wiltshire 12 (1983): 125-138. Simpson & Galbraith Cal. Docs. Rel. Scotland 5 (1986): 142. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln n.s. 3(4) (1989): 708 (sub Quency). Nottingham Medieval Studies 44 (2000): 69-81. Mitchell Portraits of Medieval Women (2003): 11-28. Derbyshire Rec. Office: Gell Fam. of Hopton, D258/7/1/1 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby); D258/7/1/8i (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Derbyshire Rec. Office: Okeover of Okeover, D231M/T375 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Shakespeare Centre Library & Archive: Gregory of Stivichall, DR10/723 (quitclaim of Margaret de Ferrers, Countess of Derby, to her son, Sir William de Ferrers).
Children of William de Ferrers, Knt., by Sibyl Marshal:
i. AGNES DEFERRERS, married WILLIAM DE VESCY, Knt., of Alnwick, Northumberland [See LONGESPEE 5.vii].
ii. ISABEL DEFERRERS, married (1st) GILBERT BASSET, of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire [see MOHUN 8]; (2nd) REYNOLD DE MOHUN, Knt., of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN 8].
iii. MAUD DE FERRERS, married (1st) SIMON DE KYME, of Sotby and Croft, Lincolnshire [see MALET 3]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE FORZ (or DE VIVONNE), Knt., of Chewton, Somerset [see MALET 3]; (3rd) AMAURY DE ROCHECHOUART, Knt., Vicomte of Rochechouart [see MALET 3].
iv. SIBYL DE FERRERS, married FRANK DE BOHUN, Knt., of Midhurst, Sussex [see MIDHURST 4].
v. JOAN DE FERRERS, married (1st) JOHN DE MOHUN, of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN 9], (2nd) ROBERT D'AGUILLON, Knt., of Addington, Surrey [see MOHUN 9].
vi. ELEANOR DE FERRERS, married (1st) WILLIAM DE VAUX, of Tharston and Houghton, Norfolk [see QUINCY 7]; (2nd) ROGER DE QUINCY, Knt., 2nd Earl of Winchester, Constable of Scotland [see QUINCY 7]; (3rd) ROGER DE LEYBOURNE, of Elham, Kent [see QUINCY 7].
Children of William de Ferrers, Knt., by Margaret de Quincy:
i. ROBERT DE FERRERS, Knt., 6th Earl of Derby [see next].
ii. WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., of Groby (in Ratby), Leicestershire, married (1st) ANNE DURWARD [see GROBY 8]; (2nd) ELEANOR DE LOVAINE [see GROBY 8].
iii. ELIZABETH DE FERRERS, married (1st) (as his 2nd wife) WILLIAM LE MARSHAL [see HINGHAM 5], of Greens Norton and Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, King's Charlton, Gloucestershire, Cowley, Oxfordshire, Colton, Staffordshire, Hazlebury (in Box), Wiltshire, etc., deputy Marshal of Ireland, of Hingham and Foulsham, Norfolk, Chirton, Wiltshire, etc., younger son of John Marshal, Marshal of Ireland, by Aline, daughter and co-heiress of Hubert de Rye [see HINGHAM 4 for his ancestry]. They had no issue. He was heir in 1242 to his elder brother, John Marshal. In 1247, as William Marshal, of Norton, he reached agreement with William de Brackley, Prior of Luffield, whereby he quitclaimed the service of a pair of gilt spurs and suit of court every three week in respect of an estate at Monksbarn (in Whittlebury), Northamptonshire, so that the prior should thereafter hold of him in free alms, quit of all secular service. The same year he also reached agreement with the Templars regarding rent owed for land in Cowley, Oxfordshire. He was granted weekly markets to be held at the manors of Haselbury Plucknett, Somerset and Messingham, Lincolnshire in 1265. WILLIAM LE MARSHAL died Sept. 1265. His widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) before 1274-5 (date of lawsuit) DAVID AP GRUFFUDD, Knt., Prince of North Wales, and, in right of his wife, of Foulsham, Norfolk, Colton, Staffordshire, etc., younger son of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, by Senena ferch Cadadog. They had two sons, Llywelyn and Owain, and seven daughters, including Gwladus. By his mistress, Tangwystl, daughter of Owain Fflam, of Deheubarth, he also had an illegitimate son, Dafydd Goch. In 1242 his mother, Senena, agreed to give him and his brother, Roderick, as hostages to King Henry III of England. In 1252, as lord of Cwmwd Maen, he entered into a composition with the Abbot and convent of Bardsey. He presented to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire 24 Dec. 1273. In 1274-5 Hubert de Rully and Isabel his wife arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against David Fitz-Griffin touching a mill in Foulsham, Norfolk. In 1275-6 Hubert de Ruyly and Isabel his wife, and Nicholas de Pulham and Aveline his wife arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against David ab Gruffud and Elizabeth his wife touching a mill in Foulsham, Norfolk. In 1278-9 William son of Alexander de Blacoined [Blakesley] arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against David ab Gruffud and others touching a tenement in Great Blakesley, Northamptonshire. In the same year Albric de Wytlebiry arraigned a similar assize against David ab Gruffud and others touching a tenement in Great Blakesley, Northamptonshire. In 1279 David and his wife, Elizabeth, sued her step-son, John le Marshal, for a third of the manor of Colton, Staffordshire as the dower of Elizabeth; John stated he only held a rent of 12s. of which he offered a third. In 1280 the king seised the third part of the manor of Haselbury, Somerset, which David and his wife, Elizabeth, held as the dower of the said Elizabeth of the lands which were of William Marshal her late husband; later the same year the king wishing to grant indulgence to the said David and Elizabeth ordered that the third part of the manor be restored to them. In 1282 David suddenly surprised the Castle of Hawarden, killed many of the knights and squires who formed the garrison, and carried off Roger de Clifford, the Justiciary, as a prisoner into the hills. DAVID AP GRUFFUDD, Prince of North Wales, was executed for treason 3 October 1283. His widow, as "Lady Elizabeth de Ferrers," presented to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire in 1285. She presented to the church of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire 20 Dec. 1296, which presentation was disputed by King Edward I, as guardian of William, heir of John Marshal. In 1297 she had a prolonged lawsuit in the royal courts with Sir Hugh de Cave regarding the right of patronage to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 672-679. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northawptonthire 1(1791): 241,255. Ellis Original Letters Ill. of English Hist. 3rd Ser. 1 (1846): 27-29 (letter of King Edward I to the Prior and Prioress of Alvingham, Lincolnshire dated 1283 that they admit one or more of the children of Llewelyn ap Gruffudd, late Prince of Wales, or of David his brother into their House.). Arch. Cambrensis 4 (1849): 134-138. Riley Willelmi Rishanger: quondam Monachi S. Abani; Chronica et Annales (Rolls Ser. 28) (1865): 91 ("David, fuga dilapsus, multis annis cum Rege Anglin stetiri a quo, contra morem gentis suæ, miles factus, in ista guerra, ob probitatem et fidelitatem suam, plurimum erat Regi acceptus: unde et eidem castrum de Dimby penbigh] contulit in Wallia, cum terris ad valorem mille librarum annul redditus; insuper et uxorem dedit, filiam Comitis Derbeyæ, (lux nuper alio viro fuerat viduata.") [also see Hog F. Nicholai Triveti, de ordine frat. praediratorum, Annales (English Hist. Soc.) (1865): 298]. Luard Annales Monastici 3 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1866): 298 (Annals of Dunstable sub A.D. 1283: "Eodem armo David, germanus Leulini, principis Wallin, captus est per gentem domini regis ...et ftlius suns legitirnus captus est cum eo Uxor edam ipsius David, (lux fuit filia comitis de Ferares, alias capta est et inprisonata."). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 109; 45 (1885): 176, 291; 46 (1886): 174-175; 48 (1887): 22. Rye Short Cal. of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1 (1885): 84. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 6(1)) (1885): 100. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 8 (1887): 10. Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion Session 1899-1900 (1901): 6-105; Session 1968,1: 43-62. C.Ch.R. 1 (1903): 262-263; 2 (1906): 53. Ramsay Dawn of the Constitution (1908): 338 ("King] Edward [I] knighted him [Dafydd ap Gruffudd], given him charge of Hope and Denbigh Castles, with lands valued at £1,000 a year, and married him to a kinswoman of his own, Elizabeth Ferrers, daughter of the ex-Earl of Derby, a Lusigan on the mother's side, and widow of John [sic] Marshal of Norton."). C.P.R 1258-1266 (1910): 602. Lloyd Hist. of Wales 2 (1911): 259. Somersetshire Pleas 4(1) (Somerset Rec. Soc. 44) (1929): 225-226, 351-352. C.P. 8 (1932): 527-528 (sub Marshal); 10 (1945): 182 footnote h (sub Orty); 14 (1998): 468 (sub Marshal). Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 37-38 (final concord between Master Robert de Saunford and William Marshal dated 1247), 38-40 (final concord between Geoffrey Fitz John and William Marshal dated 1247). Sutton Rails & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-1299 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 43) (1950): 48, 141-142. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 76-96. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 53. Elvey Luffield Priory Charters 1 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 22) (1968): 163,178-179 (charter dated 1274-5 of Christian de Wayford to Luffield Priory, granted for the souls of Lady Elizabeth wife of Sir David Griffin, Sir William Marshal, and others); 2 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 26) (1968): 367. Bartrum Welsh Gens. 500-1400 (1980): 447 [Gruffudd ap Cynan 5: "Dafydd d. 1283 [A. of Denbigh & Hope = Elizabeth d. Robt Ferrers, E. of Derby"]. T.G. 1 (1980): 80-95. Cannon Dirt. of British Hist. (2001) (biog. of Dafydd ap Gruffydd). Fritze & Robison Hist. Dict. of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485(2002): 144-145 (biog. of Dafydd ap Gruffydd). National Archives, SC 1/16/103 (available at www.catalogue.nadonalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
iv. JOAN DE FERRERS, married THOMAS DE BERKELEY, Knt., 1st Lord Berkeley [see BERKELEY 5].
v. AGNES DE FERRERS, married ROBERT DE MUSCEGROS, Knt., of Charlton Musgrove, Somerset [see MUSCEGROS 4].â€
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