2nd Earl of Derby Robert de Ferrers 
Robert was born in 1090 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England.1 Robert's father was 1st Earl Robert de Ferrers and his mother was Hawise de Vitre. His paternal grandparents were Henry de Ferrers and Bertha de l' Aigle; his maternal grandparents were Seigneur Andre de Vitre and Agnes de Mortaigne. He had two sisters named Milisent and Maude. He was the second oldest of the three children. He died at the age of 72 in 1162 in Merevale, Warwickshire, England. He was buried in Abbey Merevale, England.1 General Notes
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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]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0960 in Staffordshire, England
- b.0985 in Ferrieres, Normandy, France
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- b.1010 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, England d.1089 in Normandy, France
- b.1036 in Ferrieres, Normandy, France d.1088 in Castle Tutbury, Staffordshire, England
<Unknown>- b.1014 in Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England
- b.1062 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.1139 in Charterley, Staffordshire, England
- b.0980
- b.1010 in Aigle, Orne, Normandy, France d.1066
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- b.1040 in Gostenois, France d. in Darley, Derbyshire, England
- b.1010
- b.1090 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.1162 in Merevale, Warwickshire, England
- b.0975
- b.1005
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- b.1035 in Vitre, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.1072
- b.1010
- b.1054 in Vitre, France d.1139 in France
- b.0975 in Craon, Mayenne, Maine/Pays-de-la-Loire, France d.1037
- b.1003 in Craon, Mayenne, Maine/Pays-de-la-Loire, France d.1072
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- b.1039 d.1109
- b.0965 in Crequy, Montreuil, Artois/Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.1005 in Crequy, Montreuil, Artois/Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.0970 in Louvain, Brabant, Belgium
- b.1069 in Vitre, France
- b.0969 in Conteville, Eure, Normandy, France d.1012
- b.1001 in Conteville, Eure, Normandy, France d.1087 in Grestain, France
- b.0974 in Mellant, Normandy, France
- b.1034 in Conteville, Eure, Normandy, France d.08 Dec 1090 in Mortagne, Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.0978 in Falaise, Normandie d.1033 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France
- b.1003 in Falaise, Normandy d.1050
- b.0982 in Glamis Castle, Angus, Forfarshire, Scotland
- b.1060 in Mortagne, Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.0985 in St. Germain, Montgomery, Normandy, France
- b.1022 in Montgomery, Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1094 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.0975 in Ponteaudemer, Normandy, France d.1068
- b.1042 in St. Germain, Montgomery, Normandy, France d.1107
- b.0995 in Belleme, Perche, France d.1098
- b.1015 in Alencon, Bell, France d.02 Dec 1079 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.0995 d.1067
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Details of Robert's family with Margaret Peverel
1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=michaelrneuman&id=I011628&style=TABLE
Further source/citation:
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Further source/citation:
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