(Earl) Robert II De FERRERS 
(Earl) Robert II was born about 1090 in Derbyshire, ENGLAND. (Earl) Robert II's father was (Earl) Robert I De FERRERS and his mother was Hawise De VITRE. His paternal grandparents were Henry I De FERRERS and Bertha * ROBERTS; his maternal grandparents were (Seigneur) Andre De VITRE and Agnes De MORTAIGNE. He was an only child. He died in 1141 in Merevale, Warwickshire, ENGLAND.General Notes
TITLE: Earl of DERBY
BURIAL: Abbey of Merevale, Warwickshire, ENGLAND
NOTE:
Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby, in the 12th Henry II, upon levying the aid for marrying the king's daughter, certified the knights' fees then in his possession to be in number seventy-nine for which he paid the sum of 68 marks. This nobleman was also a liberal benefactor to the church. His lordship was buried at the Abbey of Meervale, co. Warwick,one of the religious houses which he had founded, wrapped in an ox's hide according to his desire. His lordship m. Margaret, dau. and heiress of William Peverel, of Nottingham, by whom he had issue. He was s.
by his son, William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant,Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London,1883, p. 196, Ferrers, Earls of Derby] 4
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1010 in Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, ENGLAND d.~ 1089
- b.~ 1036 in Ferrers-St. Hilaire, Eure, Normandy, FRANCE d.1088 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, ENGLAND
- b.~ 1062 in Staffordshire, ENGLAND d.1139 in Warwickshire, ENGLAND
- b.~ 1036 in Gastenois, Normandy, FRANCE d. in Darley, Derby, ENGLAND
- b.~ 1090 in Derbyshire, ENGLAND d.1141 in Merevale, Warwickshire, ENGLAND
- b.~ 1025 in FRANCE d.1090
- b.~ 1054 in Vitre, Brittany, FRANCE d.1139
- b.1035
- b.~ 1069 in Vitre, Brittany, FRANCE
- b.08 Dec 1031 in Normandy, FRANCE
- b.~ 1054 in Mortaigne, FRANCE
- b.1050 in Montaigne, FRANCE
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Details of (Earl) Robert II's family with (Lady) Margaret De PEVERIL
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