Robert de Ferrers , 6th\Last Earl of Derby 
Robert de was born in 1239 in Derby, Derbyshire, England. Robert de's father was William III de Ferrers , 5th Earl of Derby and his mother was Margaret de Quincy. His paternal grandparents were William II de Ferrers , 4th Earl of Derby and Agnes of Chester , Lady of Chartley; his maternal grandparents were Roger de Quincy , 2nd Earl of Winchester and Helen of Galloway. He had a brother and four sisters, named William IV, Elizabeth de, Joan de, Agnes de and Berta de. He was the oldest of the six children. He had five half-sisters named Isabel de, Agnes de, Maud (Matilda) de, Eleanor de and Joan de. He died at the age of 40 in 1279.General Notes
Robert de Ferrers, being a minor at the time of his father's decease, the queen and Peter de Savoy gave 6,000 marks for the custody of his lands during his minority. His lordship, when arrived at manhood, became one of the most active of the discontented nobles arrayed against Henry III and, commencing his career by the plunder and destruction of Worcester, the king, to retaliate, sent a force under Prince Edward into the cos. of Stafford and Derby, which wasted the earl's lands with fire and sword and demolished his castle at Tutworth. His lordship, afterwards joining with Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and Clare, Earl of Gloucester, participated in the victory achieved at Lewes, in Sussex, wherein the king and the prince were made prisoners, but continuing to adhere to Leicester, he was defeated with that nobleman by his former companion in arms, the Earl of Gloucester, at Evesham, and obliged to throw himself upon the mercy of the king, which, in consideration of a cup of gold, adorned with previous stones (obtained from Michal de Tony, upon a mortgage on one of his manors in Northamptonshire), and 1,500 marks, was extended to him and he received a full pardon for all his misdemeanours, the king undertaking to protect him against Prince Edward and others toward whom, at any time during the troubles, he had done wrong, upon condition that, if he should transgress against, he was without hope of favour, to be wholly disinherited. For the strict observance of which provision, the earl not only obliged himself by special charter, then freely sealed to the king, but by his oath of allegiance at the time renewed.
The charter and oath, however, were but feeble restraints upon his lordship for in the very next spring we find him again at the head of a powerful army in the northern part of Derbyshire, and soon after defeated in a pitched battle at Chesterfield by Prince Henry, eldest son of the King of Almaine. Here, his lordship was amongst those who made their escape from the field but, hiding himself under some sacks of wool in a church, he was there discovered through the treachery of a woman and thence conveyed a prisoner to London, whereupon he was totally disinherited, by the parliament then sitting at Westminster, of the Earldom of Derby as well as of his territorial possessions, the greater part of which were conferred by the king upon his 2nd son, Edmund (surname Crouchback), Earl of Leicester and Lancaster, to whom many writers of authority attribute also the dignity of Earl of Derby, but Dugdale expressly says, "although he (the prince) had possession of the greater part of this Robert's land and exercised (perhaps) the power of earl in that county, I am not satisfied that he really was Earl of Derby; in regard, I cannot find that the same Edmund had any patent of creation to that honour as he had to those of Leicester and Lancaster." It seems that this unfortunate nobleman continued in confinement about three years, but in the 53rd Henry III [1269] there was so much interest made for him that the king accepted of security, whereby he might receive satisfaction for his lordship's misdemeanours, and issue his precept to Prince Edmund to make restitution of his lands; when an agreement was entered into between the disinherited earl and the prince, by which the latter, for the sum of £50,000 to be paid at once upon a certain day, was to relinquish all interest in the lands; but that payment not being made good, the securities to the covenant passed over the lands to Prince Edmund and his heirs for ever. Subsequently, however, the ousted lord instituted a suit in the Court of King's Bench against the prince for the restitution of the property upon the allegation that the agreement he had sealed was extorted from him when a prisoner and under apprehension of his life; but after divers pleadings, a decision of the court in the beginning of Edward I's reign confirmed the lands to Prince Edmund.
This Robert de Ferrers, last Earl of Derby of that family, m. 1st, Mary, dau. of Hugh le Brun, Earl of AngoulÍme, and niece of King Henry III, by whom he had no issue; and 2ndly, Eleanore, dau. of Ralph, Lord Basset, by whom he had an only son, John, who inherited Chartley Castle. The earl d. 7th Edward I [1279], the last Earl of Derby of the house of Ferrers. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 197, Ferrers, Earls of Derby]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1062 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.1139 in Charterley, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1118 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.< 1160 in Merevale, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1083 in Vitre, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
- b.1140 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.<21 Oct 1190 in Seige of Acre, Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.1080 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England d.1155 in Bourn, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.~ 1118 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1088 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England d.1149
- b.1172 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.22 Sep 1247
- b.1075 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.1112 in Holy Land, Palestine
- b.1112 in Abergavenny, Over Gwent, Monmouthshire, Wales d.< 1193 in Weobley, Herefordshire, England
- b.1084 in Barnstable, Devonshire, England
- b.1150 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.AFT 5 FEB 1227/28
- b.1092 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d.24 Dec 1143 in Shot while hunting in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
- b.< 1093 in Aberhonwy, Brecon, Wales d.> 1143 in Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1193 in Derby, Derbyshire, England d.<28 Mar 1254 in Evington, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1070 in Briquessart, Livry, France d.JAN 1128/29 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1100 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France d.16 Dec 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, England (poisoned)
- b.~ 1070 in Crowland & Spalding, Lincolnshire, England d.> 1130
- b.1147 in Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1181 in Leeke, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1117 in Gloucestershire, England. d.29 Jul 1189
- b.~ 1094 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1174 in Chester, Cheshire, England d.02 Nov 1247
- b.~ 1070 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.1124
- b.1117 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.13 MAR 1180/81 in France
- b.~ 1090 in Garlende, France d.1181
- b.1155 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France d.12 Jul 1227 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1126 in Monmouth Castle, Gloucestershire, England d.~ 1164
- b.1239 in Derby, Derbyshire, England d.1279
- b.~ 1098 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England d.1158 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.~ 1138 in Long Buckley, England, Northamptonshire, England d.<29 Sep 1198
- b.1093 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.1140 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt, on way to Holy Land
- b.1107 in Leuchars, Fifes, Scotland
- b.~ 1135 in Leuchars, Fifes, Scotland d.<Jun 1203
- b.1174 in Winchester, Hamptonshire, England d.25 Apr 1264 in Buckley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.1104 in Leicestershire, England d.05 Apr 1168 in England
- b.< 1135 in Leicestershire, England d.31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo, Greece (went on crusade 1179)
- b.1108 in Montford de Gael, Brittany, France
- b.1154 in Leicestershire, England d.ABT 12 JAN 1234/35 in England
- b.1092 in Grentemesnil, Calvados, Normandy, France d.10 FEB 1197/98
- b.~ 1130 in Leicestershire, England d.01 Apr 1212 in Leicestershire, England
- b.1105 in Beaumont, Sur-Oise, Normandy, France d.11 Jul 1191 in Rheims, France
- b.~ 1223 in Winchester, Hamptonshire, England d.BEF 12 MAR 1280/81
- b.< 1121 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d.22 Sep 1174 in Loch Fergus, Scotland
- b.1164 in Galloway, Perthshire Scotland d.19 Dec 1200 in Northamptonshire, England
- b.1126 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.1186 in Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland d.1234 in Abbey of Dundren, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
- b.~ 1142 in Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England d.1189
- b.~ 1170 in Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England d.11 Jun 1217 in Abbey of Dundren, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
- b.~ 1154 in Kendal, Westmorland, England d.1 JAN 1190/91
- b.~ 1208 in Carrick, Argyllshire, Scotland d.>21 Nov 1245 in England
- b.~ 1125 in Ewias Lacy, Herefordshire, England d.25 Jul 1186 in Durrow, Ireland
- b.~ 1176 in Ulster, Ireland d.<26 Dec 1242 in Franciscan Friars Convent, Carrickfergus, Ireland
- b.1142 in Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.~ 1194 in Ulster, Ireland
- b.~ 1145 in Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, England d.1192 in Alton Castle, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1175 in Alton, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England d.< 1234 in Ulster, Ireland
- b.~ 1147 in Buckinghamshire, England
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