Sir William de Ferrers Baron Ferrers of Groby 
Sir William de Ferrers was born in of Groby, Leicestershire. Sir William de Ferrers' father was Sir William de Ferrers IV of Groby and his mother was Joan (Anne) le Despenser. His paternal grandparents were William de Ferrers III Earl of Derby and Margaret de Quincy; his maternal grandparents were Hugh le Despenser II Lord Falmouth Justiciar and Aliva Basset. He had a sister named Anne. He had two half-sisters named Maud and Sarah.General Notes
William Ferrers who, doing homage, had livery of his lands in England in the 21st Edward I [1293], and in the 24th, of the lands which he inherited in Scotland. In the following year, he was summoned to parliament as Baron Ferrers, of Groby. His lordship was engaged in the wars of Scotland in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II. He m. Margaret, dau. of John, 2nd Lord Segrave, and dying in 1325, left two sons and a dau., Henry and Thomas, and Anne, m. to Edward le Despencer, who d. in 1342. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 198, Ferrers, Barons Ferrers, of Groby, co. Leicester]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1162 in of Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.22 Sep 1247
- b.~ 1193 in of Derbyshire, England d.24 MAR 1253/54 in Evington, Leicestershire, England
- b.1174 in of Tutbury, Staffordshire, England d.02 Nov 1247
- b.1240 in of Groby, Leicestershire, England d.20 Dec 1287
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Acre, Palestine or Damietta, Palestine
- b.~ 1174 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.25 Apr 1264 in England
- b.1154 in Hampshire, England d.12 JAN 1234/35
- b.~ 1218 in of Winchester, Hampshire, England d.12 MAR 1283/84
- b.BET. 1195 - 1208 in of Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d.>21 Nov 1245 in Brackley, England
- b.30 JAN 1271/72 in of Groby, Leicestershire d.20 MAR 1324/25
- b.1169 in of Elington, Lincolnshire, England d.< 1218
- b.1197 in of Ryhall, Rutlandshire, England d.23 FEB 1237/38 in Sibsey & Aukborough, Lincolnshire
- b.1223 in Rhyall, Rutland, Wales d.04 Aug 1265 in Battle of Evesham, Worcestershire, England
- b.~ 1252 d.~ 1322
- b.1175 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire d.1231 in of Headington, Oxfordshire
- b.1211 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire d.29 Oct 1271 in Stanley, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1170
- b.1241 in Wooten Basset, Wiltshire, England d.~11 Apr 1281
- d.1258
- b. in Lancaster
- d.1275
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Sir William de Ferrers and Margaret (Ellen) were married in a religious ceremony about 1297. They had two sons and a daughter, named Henry de Ferrers, Thomas and Anne.
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Children
Henry de Ferrers Baron Ferrers of Groby
Henry de Ferrers was born in Groby, Leicestershire. He died on September 15th, 1343 in Groby, Leicestershire.
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