Earl Robert de Ferrers 
Robert was born in 1100 in Ferrers, derbyshire, England. Robert's father was Robert de Ferrers and his mother was Hawise de Vitre. His paternal grandparents were Earl Henry de Ferrers and Bertha Roberts; his maternal grandparents were Seigneur Andre de Vitre and Agnes de Mortaigne. He had a sister named Maud. He was the younger of the two children. He died at the age of 41 in 1141 in Merevale, Warwickshire, England. He was buried in Abbey of Merevale.General Notes
Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby, in the 12th Henry II, upon levyingthe aid for marrying the king's daughter, certified the knights' feesthen in his possession to be in number seventy-nine for which he paid thesum of 68 marks. This nobleman was also a liberal benefactor to thechurch. 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 hideaccording to his desire. His lordship m. Margaret, dau. and heiress ofWilliam Peverel, of Nottingham, by whom he had issue. He was s. by hisson, 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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- b.0990 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1010 in Ferrieres, Normandy, France d.1089
- b.1036 in Ferrieres, Normandy, France d.1088 in Castle, Tutbury, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1014 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, England
- b.1062 in derbyshire d.1139 in Merevale Warwickshire
- b.1040 in Gostenois, Normandy, France d. in Darley, Darbyshire, England
- b.1100 in Ferrers, derbyshire, England d.1141 in Merevale, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1030 in Vitre, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France
- b.1054 in Vitre, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France d.1139
- b.1069 in Vitre, Brittany, France
- b.~ 1010 in Conteville d.~ 1080
- b.1031 in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France d.08 Dec 1095 in France
- b.~ 0978 in Of,Falaise,Normandie
- b.1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.1050
- b.~ 0980 in Of,Falaise,Normandie
- b.~ 1056 in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0985 in St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France d.> 1040 in Exiled to Paris, Seine, France
- b.1022 in St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1094 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.~ 1000 in France d.> 1067
- b.~ 1041 in Montgomery, Normandy, France d.1107
- b.1000 in Alencon, Eure, Normandy, France d.1070 in Alencon, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.1026 in Alencon, Eure, Normandy, France d.02 Dec 1079 in Bures Castle
- b.0985 in Beaumont, Normandy, France
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‌Robert and Margaret were married in a religious ceremony about 1135 in Nottinghamshire, England. They had a son named William.
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Children
Earl William de Ferrers
William was born in 1140 in Ferrers, derbyshire, England. He died at the age of 50 in 1190 in Acre. He was buried in Slain in Normandy Civil Wars.1
They had a daughter named Bertha.
They had a daughter named Elizabeth.
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