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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT DE FERRERS, Knt., 6th Earl of Derby, of Tutbury, Staffordshire, son and heir by his father's 2nd marriage, born about 1239 (aged 9 in 1249, came of age in 1260). He married (1st) at Westminster by contract dated 26 July 1249 MARY (or MARIE) DE LUSIGNAN (or MARY DE LA MARCHE), daughter of Hugues XI le Brun (or de Lusignan), Knt., Count of La Marche and Angouleme, seigneur of Lusignan in Poitou (uterine half-brother of Henry III, King of England), by Yolande, daughter of Pierre de Braine (nicknamed Mauclerc), Knt., Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond [see LUSIGNAN 6 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1242 (aged 7 in 1249). About 1260 he gave his younger brother, William de Ferrers, 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 Charnock Richard), Chorley, Duxbury, Heath Charnock, Mawdesley, Shevington, and Welch Whittle, Lancashire. In the period, c.1254-60, he granted the manor of Easton, Leicestershire to his sister, Joan. In 1262 he made a gift in free alms to the Prior and convent of St. Thomas by Stafford of the manor of Sueneshurst and the township of Pendleton (in Eccles), Lancashire, together with the advowson of Stowe by Chartley, Saffordshire. On the outbreak of the Barons' War in 1263, he joined the Barons and seized three of Prince Edward's castles. He captured Worcester 29 Feb. 1263/4, and destroyed the town and Jewry. He absented himself from the Battle of Lewes, but, with 20,000 foot and many horsemen, put to flight the royal forces near Chester in November following. On 24 Dec. 1264 he was summoned to Parliament by writ directed Comiti Derb’. In that Parliament he was accused of divers trespasses and was sent to the Tower by Earl Simon de Montfort, but was pardoned 5 Dec. 1265. A few months later he again rebelled, and joining forces with John Deiville, Baldwin Wake, and others, he devastated the Midlands. He was subsequently captured by royal forces at the Battle of Chesterfield 15 May 1266, and remained a prisoner for nearly three years. All his castles, lands, and tenements were granted to the king's younger son, Edmund of Lancaster, 28 June 1266. His wife, Mary, was living 11 July 1266. In 1269 he regained his liberty by agreeing to redeem his lands by paying £50,000, a promise he later said was extorted from him under fear of corporal punishment while he was a prisoner, but was unable to raise the money. Robert married (2nd) 26 June 1269 ELEANOR DE BOHUN, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Knt., of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, by Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of William de Brewes, Knt. [see BOHUN 7 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, John, Knt. [1st Lord Ferrers of Chartley], and Thomas, and one daughter, Eleanor. Sometime in the period, 1269-79, he made a gift in free alms to the Prior and convent of St. Thomas by Stafford for the souls of himself and his two wives, Mary and Eleanor, with his own body to be buried at St. Thomas, of two messuages in the town of Chartley, together with the advowson of Stowe by Chartley, Staffordshire. In 1274 he unsuccessfully sued Edmund son of King Henry III in a plea that he might redeem his lands according to the Dictum of Kenilworth; Edmund replied that Robert could not claim the benefit of the dictum of Kenilworth, because after it was passed and published he had come to him of his own free will and agreed to redeem his lands and himself from prison for a sum of £50,000 to be paid to the said Edmund on the Quindene of St. John the Baptist, 53 Henry III. In 1275-6 he arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against Devorguille de Balliol touching a messuage in Repton, Derbyshire. In the same period, he arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against the master of the hospital of St. Lazarus of Burton touching a messuage and land in Burrow-Ash, Derbyshire. In the same period, he arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Sampson de Dun' and another touching a tenement in Breadsall, Derbyshire. In 1276-7 Geoffrey de Skeftington arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Breadsall, Derbyshire. In the same period, Geoffrey de Skeftington arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Morley, Derbyshire. SIR ROBERT DE FERRERS, sometime Earl of Derby, died shortly before 27 April 1279, and was buried at St. Thomas Priory at Stafford, Staffordshire. In Michaelmas term 1279 his widow, Eleanor, sued Edmund the king's brother for dower in a third of Tutbury, Scropton, Rolleston, Marchington, Calyngewode, Uttoxeter, Adgeresley, and Newborough, Staffordshire, and Duffield, Spondon, Chatesdene, and nine other vills named in Derbyshire; Edmund appeared in court and stated he held nothing in Spondon or Chatesdene, and as regards to the rest Eleanor had no claim to dower in them, because neither at the time Robert had married her nor any time afterwards had he been seised of them. About 1280 Eleanor petitioned the king for the restoration of the manor of Chartley, Staffordshire, stating it was part of the inheritance of her son, John de Ferrers, who is under age and in the king's keeping. In 1284 she sued Thomas de Bray in a plea regarding custody of the land and heir of William le Botiller. In 1286 a commission was appointed by the king to investigate the persons who hunted and carried away deer and felled and carried away trees in the park of Eleanor, late the wife of Robert de Ferrers, at Chardey, Staffordshire. In 1290 she and her brother, Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, acknowledged they owed a debt of £200 to Robert de Tibetot and Matthew de Columbers, the king's butler. In 1295 she presented to the church of Keyston, Huntingdonshire. She and her son, John de Ferrers, presented to the church of Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire in 1296. Eleanor, Countess of Derby, died 20 Feb. 1313/4, and was buried at Walden Abbey, Essex.
Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 3 (1728): 75-81 (sub Lezignem). Shaw Hist. & Antiqs. of Staffordshire 1 (1798): 39 (Ferrers ped.), 85 (charter and seal of Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby dated c.1262). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1(1822-30): 123-124 (Ferrers ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 4 (1823): 140-141 (Walden Abbey: "Anno Domini MCCCXII. x. kal. Martii obiit Elianora comitissa Derbi, cujus corpus juxta magnum altare in parte boreal jacet humatum"); 6(1) (1830): 472. Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 219 ("Alianora de Peters Comitissa" included on list of people owing military service in 1300). Hunter Eccl. Docs. (Camden Soc. 8) (1840): 71. Baines Hist. of the Commerce & Town of Livelpool 1 (1852): 97-133. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 4th Ser. 2 (1856): 537-545. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 285 (Annals of Burton sub 1249: "Isto anno Robertus de Ferrariis, puer ix. annorum, filius Willelmi de Ferrariis comitis Derbeiæ, desponsavit apud Westmonasterium, Mariam vii. annorum puellulam, neptem regis Henrici filiam fratris sui comitis Engolismi et Marchiæ."). Delisle "Chronologie Hist. des Comtes de la Marche" (Bull. Société Archéologique et Hist. de la Charente 4th Ser. 4) (1867): 3-16. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 35 (1874): 35; 45 (1885): 108, 161, 287, 338; 46 (1886): 110, 234; 47 (1886): 169, 171. Year Books of Edward I: Years XXX111-XXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 100-107. Francisque-Michel Roles Gascons 1 (1885): 487-488. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Calls. Hist. Staffs. 6) (1885): 60, 63-64, 76, 97-98, 137, 250. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 549 (sub Derby). La Porta Les Gens de Qualité en Basse- Marche 1(2) (1886): 1-60 (Généalogie de Lusignan). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 279 (seal of Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby dated c.1265 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk, surcoat, flat-topped helmet with vizor down, sword, shield slung by a strap over the shoulder. Horse galloping, caparisoned. Arms: vaire [FERRERS]. Legend: * ROBS FIL' • ET • HERES • DNI : WILL’I : DE • FERRAR' QODA • COMITIS • DERBEYE. Reverse. A large shield of arms: vairé (in fourteen rows) [FERRERS], suspended by a strap from an elegantly designed conventional tree, and between two finely drawn wavy branches of foliage and flowers. Legend: * SIGILLVM • ROBERTI • DE • [FERRAR]IIS • COMITIS : DERBEYE. Beaded borders). Jeayes Desc. Cat. of the Charters & Muniments in the Possession of the Rt. Hon. Lord Fithardinge (1892): 118 (charter of Robert de Ferrers dated c.1254-60; charter witnessed by his brother, William de Ferrers, and his uncle, Sir Thomas de Ferrers). C.P.R. 1281-1292 (1893): 208. English Hist. Rev. 10 (1895): 19-40. Norris BadclesIg Clinton, its Manor, Church & Hall (1897): 101-110. C.Ch.R. 1(1903): 345 (Mary, wife of Robert de Ferrers, styled "king's niece"); see Cal. Liberate Rolls 3 (1937): 279; C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 615. C.C.R. 1288-1296 (1904): 119. Parker Cal. of Lancashire Assize Rolls 1 (Lancs. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 47) (1904): 122-123. Genealogist n.s. 21(1905): 78-82. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 531-532. Jeayes Desc. Cat. Derlyshire Charters (1906): 116. Swinfield Reg. of Richard de Swinfield Bishop of Hereford (Canterbury & York Soc. 6) (1909): 389. VCH Lancashire 5 (1911): 243-251. Wedgwood Staffordshire Coats of Arms (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 3rd Ser. 1913) (1913): 300 (seal of Robert [de Ferrers], Earl Ferrers dated c.1265 - To the right. In slung over the shoulder. Horse galloping caparisoned. Arms: vairé [FERRERS]). C.P. 4 (1916): 198-202 (sub Derby); 5 (1926): chart foll. 320 (sub Ferrers), 472-474 (sub FitzWalter); 14 (1998): 468 (sub Marshal). Year Books of Edward 1113 (Selden Soc. 34) (1918): 59-67; 14(2) (Selden Soc. 43) (1927): 75-77. Wedgwood Staffordshire Parl. Hist. 1 (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 1917) (1919): 28. Lamborn Armorial Glass of the Oxford Diocese (1949): 97-101 (Ferrers arms: Vairy gold and gules). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 73: 1-13 (sub Bohun); 205: 6. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 32-33, 148-149. Saltman Cartulary of Tutbury Priory (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 4th Ser. 4) (1962): 14, 82-84, 88-92,2 45-246. Beardwood Trial of Walter Langton, Bishop of Lichfield 1307-1312 (Trans. American Philosophical Soc. n.s. 54 (3)) (1964): 14-17. VCH Oxford 8 (1964): 58. Saltman Cartulary of Dale Abbey (Derbyshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 2) (1967): 30361 (charter of Robert de Ferrers), 378-379 (charter of Robert de Ferrers). Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 197-200 (various charters of Robert de Ferrers, son and heir of William de Ferrers, formerly Earl of Derby dated 1261, 1262, 1260-66, 1260-66, and 1264), 200 (letters patent of Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby dated 1264). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 41 (seal of Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby dated 1261 - Obverse. On horseback, galloping to right. He wears mail, surcoat and flat-topped close helmet, and holds a drawn sword and a shield of arms: vairy [FERRERS]. The horse's trapper is patterned vairy. Reverse. Hung upon a decorative tree, a shield of arms: vairy; scrolls of foliage on either side. Legend: + ROBS FIL' ET HERES DN/I WIL'I DE FERRAR...). Sutton Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-12998 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 86-88. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln n.s. 3(4) (1989): 816 (sub Lusignan). Derbyshire Rec. Office: Gell Fam. of Hopton, D258/7/1/10 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). National Archives, SC 8/85/4216 (petition dated c.1280 from Eleanor de Ferrers to the king who states that Earl William de Ferret's the elder married Anneys [Agnes], daughter of Randolph, Earl of Chester, and that they had two sons, William and Thomas. Anneys gave her manor of Chartley, Staffordshire to her son, Thomas, who was seised of it until his brother William died. Robert, the next Earl, impleaded him for it, but it the end an agreement was reached whereby Thomas would keep Chartley and have the homages and lordships of Sandon, Staffordshire as well. Thomas died seised of these, and Eleanor, the petitioner, was endowed with the whole manor of Chartley. She was seised until the death of William le Bonier, one of the parceners, then Lord Edmund [Earl of Lancaster] disseised her of it by force. As it is part of the inheritance of John de Ferrers, who is under age and in his keeping, so she asks the King that he might not be disinherited. Endorsement: Because Lord Edmund answers that he is seized of the fees, therefore she is to take action for herself by writ) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Staffordshire Rec. Office: Sneyd-Kynnersley of Loxley, D(W)1733/A/2/64 (charter of Robert de Ferrers) (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Staffordshire Rec. Office: St. Thomas' Priory, Stafford, D938/13 charter of Robert de Ferrers); D938/493 (charter of Robert de Ferrers, late Earl of Derby, naming his wives, Mary and Eleanor); D938/597 (charter of Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at http://www.index.asp). Wolley Charter vi.48 (grant dated 27 Jan. 1262 by Robert de Ferr[ers] son and heir of Sir William de Ferr[ers,] earl of Derby, to Henry Shelford, of 100 acres of land, namely 40 acres in the ward of Holland, and 60 acres lying next to the said 40 acres; with husebote and haybote in the same ward by view of the foresters, and pannage in his forest of Duffield; rent, a sparrow hawk or 6d. at the option of the said Henry, and suit to the 2 great courts of Belper.) (available www.bl.uk/catalogues/wolleycharters/Home.aspx).
Children of Robert de Ferrers, Knt., by Eleanor de Bohun:
i. JOHN DE FERRERS, Knt., 1st Lord Ferrers of Chardey [see next].
ii. ELEANOR DE FERRERS, married ROBERT FITZ WALTER, Knt., 1st Lord Fitz Walter [see FITZ WALTER 8].â€
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