Genealogy Wylie » Sir William Ferrers of Groby zzz (± 1240-< 1287)

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   SIR WILLIAM DE FERRERS, of Groby, co. Leicester, Newbottle, Northants, Woodharn Ferris, Stebbing, and Fairsted, Essex, and Bolton-Ie-Moors, co. Lancaster, younger son of William (DE FERRERS), EARL OF DERBY, by his 2nd wife, Margaret, 1st daughter and coheir of Roger (DE QUENCY), EARL OF WINCHESTER. He was born about 1240. On 12 December 1251 his father gave him the manor and advowson of Woodham, the manor of Stebbing, the capital messuage of Chiche (now St. Osyth), and the lands of Fairsted, to hold in tail general, by the service of five knights' fees, with reversion to the grantor and his heirs. Between four and five years afterwards, before he was of age, he had livery of these lands: subsequently, he exchanged them with his mother for lands in Scotland and Galloway, but he again had entry thereto, with her consent, 16 days before her death, i.e., in February 1280/1. She gave him also the manor of Newbottle, and his brother, Robert, Earl of Derby, gave him all his own lands in the wapentake of Leyland, co. Lancaster. He was among the prisoners taken after the conflict at Northampton, 5 or 6 April 1264, and was committed by Edward, the King's son, to the custody of Roger de Leyburne: Roger demanded an excessive ransom, threatening to take him to Ireland if he did not pay it, and on 5 January 1264/5 was peremptorily ordered to release him and let him come to the King. William was admitted to the King's peace, and pardoned all trespasses committed by him, during the disturbance in the realm, up to Wednesday after SS. Peter and Paul [30 June] last past, 11 July 1266. On 26 May 1280, the King, having taken his homage, permitted him to retain, for a fine of 40 marks, the manor of Groby, of which his mother had enfeoffed him. After her death, he had livery of Woodham Ferris, Stebbing, St. Osyth, and Fairsted, 11 May 1281. He was with the King in the Army of Wales in 1282. He was summoned for Military Service from 18 March 1263/4 to 14 March 1282/3, to a Military Council, 14 June 1287, and to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 June 1283, by writs directed Willelmo de Ferrariis.He married, 1stly, Anne, said to have been daughter of Sir Hugh Le DESPENSER, of Ryhall, Rutland, Loughborough, co. Leicester, Parlington, co. York, &c., sometime justiciar of England, by Aline, daughter and heir of Sir Philip BASSET, of Wycombe, Bucks, &c., also justiciar of England. He married, 2ndly, Alianore, daughter of Sir Matthew DE LOVAINE, of Little Easton, Essex. He died shortly before 20 December 1287. His widow was given the manors of Stebbing and Woodham to hold in tenancy till her dower was assigned, 20 January 1287/8, and she had livery of these manors, which the King had assigned to her as dower, 18 April following. Sir William de DOUGLAS abducted her from the manor of Ellen la Zusche at Tranent, co. Haddington, before 28 January 1288/9, at which date the Sheriff of Northumberland was, in consequence, ordered to take his lands into the King's hand, and to arrest and imprison him: an order repeated, 14 April 1289. He was imprisoned in Leeds Castle, Kent, but was released on 15 May 1290, and his said lands-the manor of Fawdon---were restored to him, provisionally, 24 May following. The marriage of Alianore was granted to him, for a fine of £100, 18 February 1290/1. He was arrested for failing to give hostages in connection with a pardon granted him in July 1297, and, on 12 October following, was sent to the Tower, where he died before 24 January 1298/9. After his death, the lands which Alianore had held in dower from her 1st husband (which had been taken into the King's hand by reason of the rebellion of William de Duglas, were restored to her, those in England 24 January 1298/9, and those in Scotland 22 July 1302. She married, 3rdly, before 6 October 1305, Sir Williarn BAGOT, of Hide and Patshull, co. Stafford, and was living, his widow, 3 May 1326. She was buried in Dunmow Priory. [Complete Peerage V:340-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]----------------------The Honourable William Ferrers, 2nd son of William, 7th Earl of Derby, obtained by gift of Margaret, his mother, one of the daus. and co-heirs of Roger de Quinci, Earl of Winchester, the manor of Groby, co. Leicester, whereupon he assumed the arms of the family of de Quinci. He m. 1st, Joane, dau. of Hugh le Despencer; and 2ndly, Eleanor, dau. of Matthew Lovaine, and by the former had issue, William, his successor; and Anne, m. to John, Lord Grey, of Wilton. He d. in 1288, and was s. by his son, William. [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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