Robert De Ferrers 
Robert was born in 1090 in Derbyshire, England. Robert's father was Robert De Ferrers and his mother is Hawise de VITRE. His paternal grandparents were Henry De Ferrers and Bertha Roberts; his maternal grandfather was Andre De Vitre and his maternal grandmother is Agnes De Mortaigne. He had a half-brother named Walchine. He died before 1160 in Merevale, Warwickshire, England.General Notes
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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]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1010 in Castle Tutbury, Staffordshire, England d.1089
- b.~ 1036 in Ferrieres, Normandy, France d.1088 in Castle Tutbury, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1062 in Derby, England d.1139
- b.~ 1020
- b.~ 1040 in Gostenois, Normandy, France d. in Darley, Derbyshire, England
- b.1090 in Derbyshire, England d.< 1160 in Merevale, Warwickshire, England
- b.1054 in Vitre, Brittany, France d.1139
- b.~ 1069 in Derby, England
- b.~ 1054 in mortaigne, France
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‌Robert and Margaret were married in a religious ceremony in 1135 in Nottingham, England. They had a son named William.
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Children
William De Ferrers
William was born in 1136 in Derbyshire, England. He died at the age of 54 in 1190 in Acre, Palestine.
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