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Henry de Ferrers
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Name Henry de Ferrers Birth of Ferrieres St. Hilaire, Normandy, France 
[1, 2] Gender Male Death Aft 1086 of Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England [1] Alternate death Between 1088 and 1089 [3] Burial Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England [1, 2] Person ID I2270 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF Last Modified 6 Jan 2018
Father Walchelin de Ferrers d. Bef 1048, Normandy, France Family ID F3624 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Bertha Children + 1. (Unknown brother of Robert de Ferrers d. 1139) + 2. Robert de Ferrers d. 1139 Family ID F1578 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 28 Nov 2014
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Notes - Earl of Derby. A Domesday commissioner.
From Complete Peerage IV:190-1:
Henry de Ferrieres, Sire de Ferrieres and Chambrais in Normandy (d), son of Walkelin de Ferrieres (e). He was a Domesday Commissioner, and held at the date of the Survey some 210 lordships or manors, more than half of which were in co. Derby, but the caput of his honour was at Tutbury, then in the district of Burton-on-Trent, co. Stafford. Near Tutbury he founded a priory for Benedictine monks. He married Bertha. He was buried at Tutbury.
(d) Ferrieres and Chambrais (now Broglie), on the Charantonne, in the chief iron-producing district of Normandy. The workers of iron, in this province, were under the jurisdiction of six barons 'fossiers'; these were the barons of Ferrieres, La Ferte Fresnel, and Chaumont, and the abbots of Lyre, St. Wandrille, and St. Evroul. The barons of Ferrieres were style 'premiers barons fossiers', which shows that the forges they had charge of were esteemed the principal, or most ancient. The popular story that Henry de Ferrieres "received his surname from holding the office of master of the farriers in the invading army" is therefore only the truth--a little distorted. Whether the English branch of the family in the twelth century bore, as the heralds say they did, Sable, six horse-shoes Argent (or the same with the tinctures reversed), or whether they bore any arms at all, is another question.
(e) This Walkelin was slain in the civil wars which distracted Normandy during the minority of Duke William.
- Earl of Derby. A Domesday commissioner.
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Sources - [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.
- [S1016] Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2001.
- [S789] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry by Vernon James Watney. Oxford, 1928.
- [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.