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Bertha de Ferrers

Female - Aft 1279


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  • Name Bertha de Ferrers 
    Gender Female 
    Died Aft 1279 
    Buried Grey Friars, Dunwich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7278  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father William de Ferrers,   d. 22 Sep 1247 
    Mother Agnes of Chester,   d. 2 Nov 1247 
    Married 1192 
    Family ID F2978  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Thomas de Furnival,   b. Aft 1200, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1240, Damietta, Egypt Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age < 38 years) 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3087  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Ralph le Bigod,   b. of Settingdon, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 28 Jul 1260 
    Married Aft 1240 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2956  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “*RALPH LE BIGOD, Knt., of Settrington, Yorkshire, younger son. He married after 1240 BERTHA DE FERRERS,* widow of Thomas de Furnival (living 1240), of Sheffield, Yorkshire, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, etc. [see FURNIVAL 8], and daughter of William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby, by Agnes, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester [see FERRERS 6 for her ancestry]. They had one son, John, Knt. Sometime after 1240 he released a messuage in Thorne and Baine, Yorkshire to his half-brother, John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, which messuage he evidently had by gift of his mother. In 1248 he carried his mother's body to Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire for burial. In 1259 he was fined 40 marks by the king for a hunting transgression. SIR RALPH LE BIGOD died testate shortly before 28 July 1260. His widow, Bertha, was living 1278/9, when she was fined 40s. She was buried at Grey Friars in Dunwich, Suffolk.
      (* Note: The maiden name and parentage of Bertha de Ferrers, wife successively of Thomas de Furnival (living 1240) and Ralph le Bigod (died 1260), has been overlooked in most modem sources, such as C.P. 5 (1926): 580 (sub Furnivalle). Dugdale refers to fines dated 54 Henry III [1269-70] to show that Bertha, widow of Thomas de Furnival, married (2nd) Ralph le Bigod [see Hunter Hallamshire (1819): 34-35]. Bertha's correct parentage was first noted in Bridges Hist. of Northampton 1 (1791): 485, followed by Baker Hist. of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 122-123.)
      Thoroton & Throsby Thoroton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire 3 (1790): 388-391. Hunter Hallamshire (1819): 30-41. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 2 (1821): 510-511 (Marshal-Bigod ped.). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton I (1822-30): 123 (Ferrers ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 4 (1823): 478; 5 (1825): 270 (Abbey of Tintern - Lacy Gen.: "Rogerus sive Radulphus Bigod, secundus filius Hogonis le Bigod com. Norfolke et Suffolke et Matildæ prima filia Willihelmi Marescalli, &c. et frater Hugonis Bygod com. Norfolke et Suffolke. Iste Rogerus sive Radulphus desponsavit Bertam de Fornivale de quo Johannes Bigod, et ... Isabella soror Johannis, quæ primum desponsata fuit Gilberto de Lacy."). Holland Hist., Antiqs., & Desc. of the Town & Parish of Worksop (1826): 17-56. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 53 (sub Bigod), 225 (sub Furnival). Herald & Genealogist 3 (1866): 334-339. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 30 (1874): 237-277. Yorkshire Arch. & Topog. Jour. 5 (1879): 69-71. Marsh Annals of Chepstow Castle (1883): 110-132. VCH Nottingham 2 (1910): 125-129. Jour. Royal Soc. Antiqs. Ireland 43 (1914): 11-14. C.P. 5 (1926): 580, footnote h (sub Furnivalle); 9 (1936): 590, footnote c (cites Harleian Chrs. 46, D 38, 40, 41; Add'l Chr. 7207). Yorkshire Arch. Jour. 32 (1936): 172-213. Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): 176-177 (cites Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 35 (A.313 and A.314). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 64: 1-2 (sub Bigod); 65: 1-2 (sub Bigod of Settrington). Tremlett et al. Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P. 113-4) (1967): 144. VCH Suffolk 2 (1975): 125-126. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): chart opp. 1. Cassidy 1259 Pipe Reg. 229 (available at http://www.cmjk.com/1259/1259_pipe_roll.html).”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “THOMAS DE FURNIVAL, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, etc., son and heir, born after 1200. He married BERTHA DE FERRERS, daughter of William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby, by Agnes, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester [see FERRERS 6 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Gerard, Knt., and Thomas, Knt., and two daughters, Margaret (wife of Hugh de Neville and Hugh de Miton) and (wife of Roger de Mowbray, Knt.). He gave the grange of Fulwood to Beauchief Abbey, Derbyshire. He and his brother, Gerard de Furnival, accompanied Simon de Montfort on crusade in 1240. THOMAS DE FURNIVAL killed by the Saracens at Damietta c.1240. His body brought back to England by his brother, Gerard de Furnival, and buried in the church at Worksop, Nottinghamshire. His widow, Bertha, married (2nd) after 1240 RALPH LE BIGOD [see ASKE 8], younger son of Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, by Maud, daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal [see BIGOD 7 for his ancestry]. They had one son, John, Knt. Sometime after 1240 he released a messuage in Thorne and Baine, Yorkshire to his half-brother, John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey. In 1248 he carried his mother's body to Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire for burial. In 1259 he was fined 40 marks by the king for a hunting transgression. SIR RALPH LE BIGOD died testate shortly before 28 July 1260. His widow, Bertha, was living 1278/9, when she was fined 40s. At her death, she was buried at Grey Friars in Dunwich, Suffolk.
      Thoroton & Throsby Thoroton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire 3 (1790): 388-391. Hunter Hallamshire (1819): 30-41. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertfird 2 (1821): 510-511 (Marshal-Bigod ped.). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 123 (Ferrers ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 4 (1823): 478; 5 (1825): 270 (Abbey of Tintern - Lacy Gen.: "Rogerus sive Radulphus Bigod, secundus filius Hogonis le Bigod com. Norfolke et Suffolke et Matildæ primæ filiæ Willihelmi Marescalli, &c. et frater Hugonis Bygod com. Norfolke et Suffolke. Iste Rogerus sive Radulphus desponsavit Bertam de Fornivale de quo Johannes Bigod, et ... Isabella soror Johannis, qua primum desponsata fuit Gilberto de Lacy."); 6(1) (1830): 122-124; 6(2) (1830): 884-886. Holland Hist., Antiqs., & Desc. of the Town & Parish of Worksop (1826): 17-56. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 53 (sub Bigod), 225 (sub Furnival). Herald & Genealogist 3 (1866): 334-339. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 30 (1874): 237-277. Yorkshire Arch. & Tops. Jour. 5 (1879): 69-71. Marsh Annals of Chepstow Castle (1883): 110-132. VCH Nottingham 2 (1910): 125-129. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 81-83 (sub Furnival). Jour. Royal Soc. Antiqs. Ireland 43 (1914): 11-14. C.P. 5 (1926): 580, footnote h (sub Furnivalle); 9 (1936): 590, footnote c (cites Harleian Chrs. 46, D 38, 40, 41; Add'l Chr. 7207). Yorkshire Arch. Jour. 32 (1936): 172-213. Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): 176-177 (cites Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 35 (A.313 and A.314). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 64: 1-2 (sub Bigod); 65: 1-2 (sub Bigod of Settrington); 241:2-3. Tremlett et al. Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P. 113-4) (1967): 144. VCH Suffolk 2 (1975): 125-126. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): chart opp. 1. Cassidy 1259 Pipe Roth 229 (available at http://www.cmjk.com/1259/1259_pipe_roll.html).
      Child of Thomas de Furnival, by Bertha de Ferrers:
      i. THOMAS DE FURNIVAL, Knt. [see next].
      ii. ___ DE FURNIVAL, married ROGER DE MOWBRAY, Knt., of Thirsk, Yorkshire [see MOWBRAY 2].
      Child of Bertha de Ferrers, by Ralph le Bigod, Knt:
      i. JOHN LE BIGOD, Knt., of Stockton, Norfolk, married (1st) [see ASKE 9]; (2nd) ISABEL [see ASKE 9].”

      3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “AGNES OF CHESTER, married in 1192 WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt, 4th Earl of Derby, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1194, Sheriff of Lancashire, 1223-8, son and heir of William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, by Sibyl, daughter of William de Briouze (or Brewes). They had five sons, William, Knt. [5th Earl of Derby], Thomas, Knt, Hugh, Knt., Robert, and Ranulph (parson of St. Michael's on the Wyre, Lancashire), and three daughters, Bertha, Agnes (wife of Richard de Montfitchet), and ___. He had livery of his lands in 1190-91. Before the return of King Richard I from captivity to England, he supported the Justiciar against John, Count of Mortain, and, with the Earl of Chester, he besieged Nottingham Castle. He took part in the second Coronation of King Richard I, which was solemnized in Winchester Cathedral 17 April 1194. He was present at the Coronation of King John 27 May 1199. On 7 June 1199 the king restored and confirmed to him the third penny of Derby, and with his own hand girded him with the sword as an Earl. In 1213 he witnessed the king's surrender of the kingdom to Pope Innocent III. He was a witness to the last will of King John in 1216, and appointed one of its managers and disposers. He was present at the Coronation of King Henry III 28 October 1216. On 30 October following, the king granted him the Castles of Peak and Bolsover, Derbyshire, and, on 16 Jan. 1216/17, he was granted the manor of Melbourne, Derbyshire to hold until the king was 14 years of age. He assisted the Regent to raise the Siege of Lincoln Castle 20 May 1217, and, with his brother-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, he commanded the royal forces which razed Montsorel Castle. In June 1218 he went on Crusade. In 1225 he witnessed the third great charter of King Henry III. He was heir c.1226/7 to his younger brother, Robert de Ferrers. He accompanied the king in the expedition to Brittany and Poitou in 1230. In 1230 the king pardoned him up to 100 marks of the £170 which were exacted from him for the debts of his uncle, Robert de Ferrers. He was present at the Council of London Feb. 1231/2. His wife, Agnes, was co-heiress in 1232 to her brother, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, by which she inherited the Castle and manor of Chartley, Staffordshire, the Castle and vill of West Derby, Lancashire, and the borough of Liverpool, Lancashire, together with all the lands which Earl Ranulph had held between Ribble and Mersey (including the fiefs of Manchester, Widnes, Warrington, Tottington and Croston, Makerfield and Sefton, Lancashire), and the vills of Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire and Navenby, Lincolnshire. In 1236 he and his wife, Agnes, quitclaimed the advowson of the church of Bolton, Lancashire to Herbert, Prior of Mattersey. He presented to the churches of Brington, Northamptonshire, 1237, and Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, 1238. In 1241 Stephen de Meverel sued William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, and Agnes his wife regarding the advowson of Gatton, Staffordshire; William and Agnes appeared by attorney, and stated that the advowson formed part of the inheritance of Agnes, which fell to her by the death of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, and that they could not answer without their co-parceners. In 1244 he was summoned for military service against the Scots. At an unknown date, he granted 24 acres in his Forest of Needwood to Robert son of Thomas of the Cross. At an unknown date, he granted 19 acres in the manor of Horecross (in Yoxall), Staffordshire to Bartholomew Andwinckle. At an unknown date, he granted all the town of Horecross (in Yoxall), Staffordshire to Hugh Melbourn. SIR WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Earl of Derby, died testate 22 Sept. 1247. His widow, Agnes, died testate 2 Nov. 1247.
      Shaw Hist. & Antiqs. of Staffordshire 1(1798): 39 (Ferrers ped.), 93 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; charter names his wife, Agnes), 103 (three charters of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, one of which is witnessed by his brother, Robert). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 807 (charter of Robert de Ferrers, son of William, Earl of Ferrers; charter witnessed by William de Ferrers, son of William, Earl of Ferrers). Coll. Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Baines Hist. of the Commerce & Town of Liverpool 1 (1852): 97-133. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 7 (1852): 220-232. Giles Matthew Paris's English Hist. 2 (1853): 251 (sub 1247: "In this year certain nobles died in England, amongst whom was William Earl Ferrers, a peaceable and good man, who died at a great age, about St. Catherine's day [25 November], after having suffered for a long time from gout. His marriage with his wife the Countess was solemnized by St. Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury. In the same month also died his wife M, countess of Ferrers, of the same age and of equal fame and goodness. 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): 285 (Annals of Burton sub 1247: "Isto anno obiit Wilelinus de Ferrariis, nobilis comes Derbeiae, x. kal. Octobris. Agnes comitissa, uxor ejus, completa quarentena sua, decessit quarto non. Novembris."). Shirley Royal & Other Historical Letters illus. of the Reign of King Henry III 2 (Rolls Ser. 27) (1866): 14 (letter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby). Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXIII-XXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 100-107. Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester 1 (1882): 26-33. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 4) (1883): 90-102. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 280-283. Birch Catalogue of Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 280 (seal of William de Ferrers, Earl of Ferrers dated 1191-1199 - To the right. In armour: hauberk, surcoat, sword, long convex shield. Horse galloping; Another undated seal. Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk, surcoat, flat-topped helmet, sword, shield of arms: vaire, FERRERS; Reverse. Small oval counterseal. With mark of the handle. Impression of an antique oval intaglio gem. A lion devouring a stag). Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem 1 (1894): 304. Norris Baddesly Clinton, its Manor, Church & Hall (1897): 101-110. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 72, 102. Fatter Final Concords of Lancaster 1 (Lancs. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 39) (1899): 74-93,93-118,216-219. Fatter Lancashire Inquests, Extents & Feudal Aids 1 (Lanc. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 48) (1903): 120,146. Parker Cal. of Lancashire Assize Rolls 1 (Lancs. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 47) (1904): 18, 40, 55, 66. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 531-532. Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 4-9. C.P. 3 (1913): 169, footnote a (sub Chester); 4 (1916): 194-196 (sub Derby(); 5 (1926): 320 (chart). Grosseteste Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 169, 178, 184-185, 190, 402. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). Farnham Leicestershire Medieval Peds. (1925): 11 (ped. of Earls of Chester). Rpt. on the MSS of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 83. Gibbs Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 58) (1939): 37- 39. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 32-33, 148-149. Hockey Beaulieu Cartulary (Southampton Recs. Ser. 17) (1974): 11-12, 44-45. C.R.R. 16 (1979): 69. Ellis Cat. Seals in the PRO. 2 (1981): 41 (seal of William de Ferrer; Earl of Derby - On horseback, riding to right. He wears a long coat of mail and a flat-topped helmet with nasal, and holds a drawn sword and a shield. Legend: ...DEF...R...). Nottingham Medieval Studies 44 (2000): 69-81. Online resource: http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_029.html. Lancashire Rec. Office: Clifton of Lytham, DDCL 250 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Lancashire Rec. Office: Molyneux, Earls of Sefton, DDM 19/1 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby), DDM 19/2 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby); DDM 19/3 (charter of Agnes de Ferrers, Countess of Derby), DDM 19/4 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
      Children of Agnes of Chester, by William de Ferrers, Knt.:
      i. WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby [see next].
      ii. BERTHA DE FERRERS, married (1st) THOMAS DE FURNIVAL, of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, and Sheffield, Yorkshire [see FURNIVAL 8], (2nd) RALPH LE BIGOD, Knt., of Settrington, Yorkshire [see ASKE 8].
      iii. ___ DE FERRERS, married JOHN DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland [see CLIFFORD 7].”