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 1172 - 1247 (75 years)
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| Name |
William de Ferrers |
| Title |
Sir |
| Suffix |
Knight, 4th Earl of Derby |
| Birth |
1168-1172 |
Tutbury, Staffordshire, England  [1, 2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
20 Sep 1247 |
Duffield, Derbyshire, England [2, 3] |
| Burial |
Chartley Castle, Staffordshire, England [3] |
| Person ID |
I46771 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
2 Mar 2017 |
| Father |
Sir William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, b. 1140, Tutbury, Staffordshire, England d. 21 Oct 1191, The Siege of Acre, Israel (Age 51 years) |
| Mother |
Sybil de Braose, b. Bef 1151, Bramber, Sussex, England d. 5 Feb 1227, Derbyshire, England (Age ~ 76 years) |
| Marriage |
Y [4, 5, 6] |
| Residence (Family) |
Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England [4] |
| Family ID |
F17590 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Agnes of Chester, b. 1174, Chester, Cheshire, England d. 2 Nov 1247, Tutbury, Staffordshire, England (Age 73 years) |
| Marriage |
Y [1, 2, 3, 7, 8] |
| Children |
| | 1. Sir William de Ferrers, III, Knight, 5th Earl of Derby, b. 1193, Derbyshire, England d. 28 Mar 1254, Warwickshire, England (Age 61 years) |
| | 2. Sir Thomas de Ferrers |
| | 3. Sir Hugh de Ferrers |
| | 4. Petronille de Ferrers, b. ~1190, England d. Aft 12 May 1237 (Age ~ 46 years) |
| | 5. Sybil Ferrers, b. 25 Jul 1216, Derbyshire, England d. 1247 (Age 30 years) |
| | 6. Bertha de Ferrers, b. ~1204, Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d. Aft 10 Feb 1266, (Thetford, Norfolkshire, England) (Age ~ 61 years) |
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| Family ID |
F17143 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- William II de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby (c. 1168 – c. 1247) was a favourite of King John of England. He succeeded to the estate (but not the title) upon the death of his father, William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, at the Siege of Acre in 1190. He was head of a family which controlled a large part of Derbyshire which included an area known as Duffield Frith.
He adopted his father's allegiance to King Richard as the reigning king. On Richard's return from the Third Crusade, in the company of David Ceannmhor and the Earl of Chester he played a leading role in besieging Nottingham Castle, on 28 March 1194, which was being held by supporters of Prince John. For seven weeks after this he held the position of Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.[1]
On the accession of John after the death of his brother, in 1199, William gave him his allegiance, and became a great favourite. He restored to the de Ferrars' family the title of Earl of Derby, along with the right to the "third penny", and soon afterwards bestowed upon him the manors of Ashbourne and Wirksworth, with the whole of that wapentake, subject to a fee farm rent of ¹70 per annum.[2]
When, in 1213, John surrendered his kingdoms of England and Ireland to the Pope, William was one of the witnesses to the "Bulla Aurea." In the following year William gave surety on behalf of the king for the payment of a yearly tribute of 1,000 marks.
In the same year, 1214, the King granted the Earl the royal castle of Harestan (Horsley Castle). William was a patron of at least 2 abbeys and 4 priories. In 1216, John made him bailiff of the Peak Forest and warden of the Peak Castle.
In that year, John was succeeded by the nine-year-old Henry III. Because of continuing discontent about John's violations of the Magna Carta, some of the barons had approached Prince Louis of France who invaded in that year. William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke acting on behalf of the young King sought to repel the invaders and pacify the barons. His forces, with the assistance of de Ferrers, the Earl of Chester and others, defeated the rebels at the siege of Lincoln.
De Ferrers was allowed to retain the royal castles of Bolsover, Peak and Horston (Horsley) until the King's 14th birthday. The latter had been given him in 1215 as a residence for his wife, during his planned absence with the King on Crusade.[3] and the Earl was among those who made representation to the King, which would in 1258 led to the Provisions of Oxford .
Henry reached his fourteenth birthday in 1222 and his administration sought to recover the three royal castles, to de Ferrers' indignation. In 1254 they would pass to Edward I, Henry's son, exacerbating Robert's, the sixth earl, resentment against the prince.[4]
He was married to Agnes De Kevelioch, sister of Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester, for 55 years. As the Earl advanced in years he became a martyr to severe attacks of the gout, a disease which terminated his life in the year 1247. He was succeeded by his elder son, also William, the Fifth Earl of Derby.
William de Ferrers School
William de Ferrers School and Sixth form is a "foundation comprehensive" (state-funded, non-selective, with some control over how to spend its allotted money) school in the rural town of South Woodham Ferrers, Essex. The school is named after William Ferrers a descendant of Henry de Ferrers who was given the area as a gift from William the Conqueror after the Norman Conquest.
William De Ferrers Football Club
Henry Ferrers' descendant gave his name to the local Essex (UK) football team of the same name, often abbreviated to Willy De or known simply as The Baby blues. The club was founded in 1983 and currently has 3 senior men’s teams.[citation needed]
Family and children
William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby
Sybil de Ferrers, married Sir John Vipont [1], Lord of Appleby and had issue.
Sir Thomas of Chartley Ferrers
Sir Hugh of Bugbrooke Ferrers (married and had issue)
Petronille de Ferrers (married Hervey de Stafford)
References
Jump up ^ See High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests.
Jump up ^ Bland, W., 1887 Duffield Castle: A lecture at the Temperance Hall, Wirksworth Derbyshire Advertiser
Jump up ^ Turbutt, G., (1999) A History of Derbyshire. Volume 2: Medieval Derbyshire, Cardiff: Merton Priory Press
Jump up ^ J. R. Maddicott, 'Ferrers, Robert de, sixth earl of Derby (c. 1239–1279)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [ accessed 28 Oct 2007]
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- Birth: 1172
Tutbury
Staffordshire, England
Death: Sep. 20, 1247
Duffield
Derbyshire, England
William's death is erroneously said to have died in Chartley Castle, of the gout-- in fact his gout-related death was due to injury, as recounted in an anecdote in Burke's: "His lordship, who from his youth had been a martyr to the gout, and in consequence obliged to he drawn from place to place in a chariot, lost his life by being thrown through the heedlessness of his driver over the bridge at St. Neots, co. Huntingdon." He died in an inn enroute to Chartley, and Agnes his wife of 55 years died upon the arrival of his body-- so he was not conveyed to Merevale Abbey (as has been reported), and the two of them were given a joint funeral and burial at Chartley.
Son of William de Ferrers d 1190 and Sybil de Braose. Husband of Agnes of Chester, and father of:
William de Ferrers
Sybil de Ferrers
Joane de Ferrers
Petronillan de Ferrers
Family links:
Parents:
William De Ferrers (1140 - 1190)
Spouse:
Agnes Kevelioc De Ferrers (1174 - 1247)
Children:
William Ferrers (1193 - 1254)*
Bertha de Ferrers Bigod (1205 - 1279)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Chartley Castle
Stowe-by-Chartley
Stafford Borough
Staffordshire, England
Created by: Bill Velde
Record added: Jun 20, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 71693287
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| Sources |
- [S9762] "William III de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (1193 - 28 March 1254", biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_F.
- [S10014] "William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby" biography, accessed & downloaded Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016 by David A. Henn.
- [S10544] "Sir William De Ferrers" biography, which was abstracted, downloaded and published Thursday, March 2nd, 2017 by David A.
- [S10547] "Sir William De Ferrers (1140-1190)" profile, which was abstracted, downloaded and published Thursday, March 2nd, 2017 b.
- [S14228] "William I de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby (died 1190)", Biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Ferrers,_3rd_.
- [S14298] "Isabel (Vipont) de Clifford (about 1251 - before 14 May 1292)", Ancestors, Descendants, Biography with Sources, https:/.
- [S10545] "Sir William De Ferrers (1172-1247)" biography, which was abstracted, downloaded and published Thursday, March 2nd, 2017.
- [S15031] Unknown (de Furnival) de Mowbray (abt. 1222 - bef. 1257), Biography, Ancestors & Descedants, https://www.wikitree.com/wi.
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