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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  William de Ferrers died before 21 Oct 1190 in Acre, Palestine.

    Notes:

    Earl of Derby.

    "He was one of the adherents of the younger Henry on his rebellion in April 1173, and sacked and burnt Nottingham in May or June 1174. He made his submission to the King at Northampton, 31 July 1174, surrendering his castles of Tutbury and Duffield. The King took him, with other prisoners, to France in August following, and imprisoned them at Caen. [...] He died on Crusade, at the siege of Acre, in Palestine, in 1190, before 21 October. His wife survived him, and was, perhaps, living as late as 5 February 1227/8." [Complete Peerage]

    His wife has long been given as Sybil, a daughter of William de Braose and Bertha of Hereford. But Complete Peerage XIV notes that the charter which was the sole evidence for this was a forgery.

    Family/Spouse: (Unknown wife of William de Ferrers). (Unknown died after 5 Feb 1228. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Petronille de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point died after 12 May 1237; was buried in Stone, Staffordshire, England.
    2. 3. William de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point died on 22 Sep 1247.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Petronille de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (1.William1) died after 12 May 1237; was buried in Stone, Staffordshire, England.

    Petronille married Hervey de Stafford before 1215. Hervey (son of Hervey Bagot and Millicent de Stafford) was born in of Stafford, Staffordshire, England; died before 12 May 1237; was buried in Stone, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. Robert de Stafford  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Stafford, Staffordshire, England; died before 4 Jun 1261.

  2. 3.  William de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (1.William1) died on 22 Sep 1247.

    Notes:

    "Sheriff of Notts and Derby, for 7 weeks, February-March 1194. About that time, before the King's return to England, he supported the justiciar against John, Count of Mortain, and, with the Earl of Chester, besieged Nottingham Castle. Shortly afterwards he took part at Richard's second Coronation, 17 April, being one of the four Earls who bore the canopy. After the King's death, he was at the Council of Northampton, which declared for John as Richard's successor: he was present at the Coronation, 27 May 1199. On 7 June 1199, the King restored and confirmed to him the third penny of all the pleas pleaded per vicecomitem de Dereby, unde ipse Comes est, as amply as any of his predecessors had had the same, to hold, to him and his heirs for ever, and with his own hand girded him with the sword as an Earl. On the same day the King gave him Higham with the hundred and a half, and the park of that town, and Newbottle and Blisworth, as his right and inheritance which descended to him as right heir of the land which was of William Peverel, to hold, to him and his heirs for ever, by the service of a knlght's fee. And the Earl quit-claimed the residue of the land which was of William Peverel to the King, and paid 2,000 marks for his charter. He was present at the Coronation of Henry III, 28 October 1216. On 30 October the King granted him the castles of Peak and Bolsover, co. Derby, with the homages, and on 16 January 1216/7 the manor of Melbourne in that co., to hold till 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, the Earl of Chester, commanded the royal forces which took and razed the castle of Montsorel. In June 1218 he went on Crusade. He was warned, 26 June 1222, to surrender the castles of Peak and Bolsover before Michaelmas. Sheriff of co. Lancaster and Keeper of the honour of Lancaster, 30 December 1223 to 2 January 1227/8. He accompanied the King in the expedition to Brittany and Poitou, April to October 1230. On 19 January 1230/1 he was given the custody of all the lands of the Normans in England which were of his fee. He was at the Council of London, February 1231/2. He was summoned for Military Service against the Scots 15 May 1244, by writ directed W. de Ferar' comiti Derebi." [Complete Peerage]

    Died of the complications of gout.

    William married Agnes of Chester in 1192. Agnes (daughter of Hugh of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort) died on 2 Nov 1247. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Bertha de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point died after 10 Feb 1267; was buried in Grey Friars, Dunwich, Suffolk, England.
    2. 6. Sibyl de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 7. William de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1193 in of Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England; died on 24 Mar 1254 in Evington, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 31 Mar 1254 in Merevale Abbey, Warwickshire, England.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Robert de Stafford Descendancy chart to this point (2.Petronille2, 1.William1) was born in of Stafford, Staffordshire, England; died before 4 Jun 1261.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 1282

    Family/Spouse: Alice Corbet. Alice (daughter of Thomas Corbet and Isabell de Valletort) was born in of Caus, Westbury, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Nicholas de Stafford  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Stafford, Staffordshire, England; died about 1 Aug 1287 in Dryslwyn, Carmarthenshire, Wales; was buried in Stone, Staffordshire, England.

  2. 5.  Bertha de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (3.William2, 1.William1) died after 10 Feb 1267; was buried in Grey Friars, Dunwich, Suffolk, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft 1278

    Family/Spouse: Thomas de Furnival. Thomas (son of Gerard de Furnival and Maud de Lovetot) was born after 1200 in of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England; died about 1240 in Damietta, Egypt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. Thomas de Furnival  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England; died on 12 May 1291; was buried in Church of the Friars Minor, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England.
    2. 10. (Unknown) de Furnival  Descendancy chart to this point

    Bertha married Ralph le Bigod after 1240. Ralph (son of Hugh II le Bigod and Maud Marshal, Marshal Of England) was born after 1208 in of Stockton, Norfolk, England; died before 28 Jul 1260. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 11. John le Bigod  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1245 in of Stockton, Norfolk, England; died before 18 Mar 1305.

  3. 6.  Sibyl de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (3.William2, 1.William1)

    Notes:

    Richardson's Royal Ancestry gives her as an unnamed daughter of William de Ferrers and Agnes de Chester, but an SGM post from him on 11 Aug 2018 (citation details below) establishes via a "charter dated c. 1230-41 of John de Vipont published in Prescott, Register of the Priory of Wetherhal (Cumberland and Westmorland Antiq. & Arch. Society Records 1) (1897): 328–330" that she was named Sibyl.

    Family/Spouse: John de Vipont. John (son of Robert de Vipont and Idoine de Builly) was born in 1210 in of Appleby, Westmorland, England; died before 25 Jul 1241. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 12. Robert de Vipont  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1234 in of Appleby, Westmorland, England; died before 7 Jun 1264.

  4. 7.  William de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (3.William2, 1.William1) was born about 1193 in of Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England; died on 24 Mar 1254 in Evington, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 31 Mar 1254 in Merevale Abbey, Warwickshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 28 Mar 1254, Evington, Leicestershire, England

    Notes:

    Earl of Derby. Constable of Bolsover Castle. He died of injuries sustained when he was thrown from a chariot crossing a bridge at St. Neots in Cambridgeshire.

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    So to start with, Sir William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, born 1193, helpfully had two daughters named Agnes de Ferrers.

    The first Agnes de Ferrers, by Sir William's first wife Sybil Marshal, was born about 1222 and married William de Vescy (b. bef. 16 May 1205).

    The second Agnes de Ferrers, by Sir William's second wife Margaret de Quincy, was born about 1252 and married Sir Robert de Muscegros (b. abt. 1252).

    But that's not all!

    Sir William also had two daughters named Joan de Ferrers.

    Again (you're starting to get the idea by now), the first Joan de Ferrers, by Sir William's first wife Sybil Marshal, was born about 1233 and married, first Sir John de Mohun (b. abt. 1227, d. bef. 1254), and second, Sir Robert de Aguillon (b. 15 Feb 1235/36).

    The second Joan de Ferrers, by Sir William's second wife Margaret de Quincy, was born in 1245 and married Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley (b. 1245).

    This second pair of Joans is made even more hilarious by the existence of yet a third Joan de Ferrers, contemporary to the other two, born abt. 1256 to a completely different William de Ferrers, the one born c. 1225, of Bere Ferrers, Tavistock, Devon.

    I'm sure they all got together regularly to laugh about how aggravating this would be to people seven hundred years in the future.

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    As a final piece of genealogical curiosa, Eleanor de Ferrers, youngest daughter of William de Ferrers by his first wife, married Roger de Quincy, father of William de Ferrers' second wife Roger de Quincy, thus rendering Eleanor de Ferrers and Margaret de Quincy one another's stepmothers.

    William married Sybil Marshal before 14 May 1219. Sybil (daughter of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare) was born about 1204; died before 1238. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 13. Agnes de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point died on 11 May 1290.
    2. 14. Joan de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point died before Oct 1267.
    3. 15. Isabel de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point died before 11 Nov 1260; was buried on 11 Nov 1260.
    4. 16. Agatha de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point died on 22 May 1306.
    5. 17. Eleanor de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point died before 26 Oct 1274; was buried on 26 Oct 1274.
    6. 18. John de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point died before 1238.
    7. 19. Sibyl de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point died before 1260.
    8. 20. Maud de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1230; died on 12 Mar 1299.

    William married Margaret de Quincy before 1239. Margaret (daughter of Roger de Quincy and Helen of Galloway) was born before 1223; died before 12 Mar 1281. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 21. Joan de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point died on 19 Mar 1310; was buried in Abbey Church of St. Augustine, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
    2. 22. Robert de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1239; died about 1279; was buried in St. Thomas Priory, Staffordshire, England.
    3. 23. William de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1240 in of Groby, Leicestershire, England; died before 20 Dec 1287.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Nicholas de Stafford Descendancy chart to this point (4.Robert3, 2.Petronille2, 1.William1) was born in of Stafford, Staffordshire, England; died about 1 Aug 1287 in Dryslwyn, Carmarthenshire, Wales; was buried in Stone, Staffordshire, England.

    Notes:

    Died at the siege of Droslin Castle in Wales, crushed by a falling wall.

    Family/Spouse: (Unknown) de Langley. (Unknown) (daughter of Geoffrey de Langley and Matilda de Brightwell) died before 1287. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 24. Edmund de Stafford  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Jul 1273 in of Castle near Stafford, Staffordshire, England; died before 12 Aug 1308; was buried in Friars Minor, Stafford, Staffordshire, England.

  2. 9.  Thomas de Furnival Descendancy chart to this point (5.Bertha3, 3.William2, 1.William1) was born in of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England; died on 12 May 1291; was buried in Church of the Friars Minor, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England.

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 25. Thomas de Furnival  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1260 in of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England; died on 3 Feb 1332.
    2. 26. Eleanor Furnival  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1260; died after 1302.

  3. 10.  (Unknown) de Furnival Descendancy chart to this point (5.Bertha3, 3.William2, 1.William1)

    (Unknown) married Roger de Mowbray after 13 Apr 1238. Roger (son of William de Mowbray and Avice) was born about 1220 in of Thirsk, Yorkshire, England; died before 18 Oct 1263; was buried in Church of the Friars Preachers, Pontefract, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 27. Elizabeth de Mowbray  Descendancy chart to this point died after Sep 1317.
    2. 28. Joan de Mowbray  Descendancy chart to this point died before 1316.

  4. 11.  John le Bigod Descendancy chart to this point (5.Bertha3, 3.William2, 1.William1) was born about 1245 in of Stockton, Norfolk, England; died before 18 Mar 1305.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 1306

    John married Isabel before 1290. Isabel died on 12 Sep 1311. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 29. Roger le Bigod  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Settrington, Yorkshire, England; died on 17 Apr 1362.

  5. 12.  Robert de Vipont Descendancy chart to this point (6.Sibyl3, 3.William2, 1.William1) was born about 1234 in of Appleby, Westmorland, England; died before 7 Jun 1264.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1235
    • Alternate birth: 1239
    • Alternate death: Abt 7 Jun 1264
    • Alternate death: Bef 5 Jul 1264

    Notes:

    Heriditary sheriff of Westmorland. Died of wounds sustained at the battle of Lewes.

    Robert married Isabel fitz John after 19 Nov 1242. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 30. Isabel de Vipont  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1248 in of Appleby, Westmorland, England; died in 1291; was buried in Shap Abbey, Westmorland, England.

  6. 13.  Agnes de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 3.William2, 1.William1) died on 11 May 1290.

  7. 14.  Joan de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 3.William2, 1.William1) died before Oct 1267.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef Jun 1269

    Family/Spouse: Robert Aguillon. Robert (son of William Aguillon and Joan) was born in of Addington, Surrey, England; died on 15 Feb 1286. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 31. Margery Aguillon  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 32. Isabel Aguillon  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Mar 1258 in of Addington, Surrey, England; died before 28 May 1323.

    Joan married John de Mohun after 1245. John (son of Reynold II de Mohun and Hawise fitz Geoffrey) died in 1254 in Gascony, France; was buried in Bruton Priory, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 33. John de Mohun  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1248 in of Dunster, Williton, Somerset, England; died on 11 Jun 1279.

  8. 15.  Isabel de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 3.William2, 1.William1) died before 11 Nov 1260; was buried on 11 Nov 1260.

  9. 16.  Agatha de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 3.William2, 1.William1) died on 22 May 1306.

  10. 17.  Eleanor de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 3.William2, 1.William1) died before 26 Oct 1274; was buried on 26 Oct 1274.

    Family/Spouse: Roger de Quincy. Roger (son of Saher de Quincy and Margaret of Leicester) was born about 1195; was christened in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England; died on 25 Apr 1264. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  11. 18.  John de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 3.William2, 1.William1) died before 1238.

  12. 19.  Sibyl de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 3.William2, 1.William1) died before 1260.

    Sibyl married Frank de Bohun before 21 Sep 1247. Frank (son of Savary de Bohun and Cecily fitz Geoffrey) was born in of Midhurst, Sussex, England; died on 14 Sep 1273. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 34. John de Bohun  Descendancy chart to this point was born in of Midhurst, Sussex, England; died on 28 Sep 1284.

  13. 20.  Maud de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 3.William2, 1.William1) was born about 1230; died on 12 Mar 1299.

    Notes:

    Vicomtesse de Rochechouart. According to Richardson, "generally known" as Maud de Kyme, presumably owing to her first marriage to Simon de Kyme (d. 1248).

    Maud married William de Forz about 30 Jul 1248. William (son of Hugh de Vivonne and Mabel Malet) was born in of Chewton, Somerset, England; died before 22 May 1259. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 35. Joan de Vivonne  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1251; died on 1 Jun 1314.
    2. 36. Cecily de Vivonne  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1257 in Chewton, Somerset, England; died on 10 Jan 1320 in Stoke-under-Hamden, Somerset, England.

  14. 21.  Joan de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 3.William2, 1.William1) died on 19 Mar 1310; was buried in Abbey Church of St. Augustine, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.

    Joan married Thomas de Berkeley in 1267. Thomas (son of Maurice de Berkeley and Isabel fitz Richard) was born in of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; died on 23 Jul 1321 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in Abbey Church of St. Augustine, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 37. Maurice de Berkeley  Descendancy chart to this point was born between 1271 and 1281 in of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; died on 21 May 1326 in Wallingford Castle, Oxfordshire, England; was buried in Abbey Church of St. Augustine, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.

  15. 22.  Robert de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 3.William2, 1.William1) was born about 1239; died about 1279; was buried in St. Thomas Priory, Staffordshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 27 Apr 1279
    • Alternate death: Bef 20 Nov 1279

    Notes:

    Earl of Derby. "He joined the Barons opposing Henry III. On 19 Feb 1263, he captured Worcester, pillaged the city and destroyed the Jewish population. He was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London from Jan 1265 to the spring of 1266. When released, he gathered an army, but was defeated at Chesterfield, 15 May 1266, and again imprisoned, in Wallingford Castle, where he remained until about June 1269. Having lost nearly all of his estates and suffering from gout, he retired from public life." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

    Robert married Mary de Lusignan after 26 Jul 1249. Mary (daughter of Hugh XI "le Brun" de Lusignan and Yolande of Brittany) died before 1269. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Robert married Eleanor de Bohun on 26 Jun 1269. Eleanor (daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Eleanor de Briouze) died on 20 Feb 1314; was buried in Walden Abbey, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 38. Eleanor de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 39. John de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 Jun 1271 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales; died about 27 Aug 1312 in Gascony, France.

  16. 23.  William de Ferrers Descendancy chart to this point (7.William3, 3.William2, 1.William1) was born about 1240 in of Groby, Leicestershire, England; died before 20 Dec 1287.

    Notes:

    He was never married to an Anne (or a Joan) Despenser, as widely reported in 19th- and 20th-century secondary sources.

    Family/Spouse: Eleanor de Lovaine. Eleanor (daughter of Matthew de Lovaine and Helisant) died after 3 May 1326; was buried in Dunmow Priory, Little Dunmow, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    William married Anne Durward in 1270. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 40. William de Ferrers  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 30 Jan 1272 in Yoxall, Staffordshire, England; died on 20 Mar 1325.


 

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