Genealogy Wylie » Robert 3rd Baron de Ferrers of Chartley zzz (1309-1350)

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   BARONY OF FERRERS OF CHARTLEY (CP doesn't give numbers/recognize the title?)SIR ROBERT DE FERRERS, of Chartley, &c., next brother and heir, born 25 March 1309, In September 1325 he was about to go beyond seas with the King. On 13 August 1327, though still under age, the King took his homage, and gave him livery of his brother's lands, on account of his recent good services during the King's expedition to northern parts, and that he might the more honourably maintain the knighthood he had lately received from the King. He was summoned for Military Service against the Scots, 27 March 1335. On 28 April 1338 the King granted him the hundred of Pirehill, co. Stafford, during pleasure. In 1338 and 1339 he was with the King in Flanders. He was appointed a justice, in cos. Oxon, Berks, Bucks, and Beds, to hear and determine the oppressions committed; by the King's ministers and others, 10 December 1340: he was then a banneret. He was summoned to Council, 25 February 1341/2, by writ directed Roberto de Ferrar. In October 1342 he accompanied the King in his expedition to Brittany, being in the King's retinue. Chamberlain to the King in July 1343. The King granted him, for his good services, the custody of the manor of Handborough, Oxon, and of the manor and park, of Woodstock, as from 1 February 1343/4, for life, at rents of £27 16s. 6d. and £100 a year, respectively. On 26 April 1344 he was appointed Vice Admiral of the Fleet which was to convey the King in his next expedition beyond seas. He was with the Earl of Derby at the battle of Auberoche in Périgord, 21 or 23 October 1345. He accompanied the King to La Hogue in July 1346, and was at the battle of Crecy and the siege of Calais. For his good services in France he received a pardon, 13 May 1347, for all homicides, robberies, &c., and of any consequent outlawries: on the following day he was summoned to join the King before Calais.He married, 1stly, between 21 November 1324 and 20 October 1330, Margaret, who was living in August 1331. He married 2ndly, Joan DE LA MOTE, of Willisham, Suffolk, and St. Pancras, Middlesex. He died 28 August 1350, aged 41. His widow had pardon for entering without licence the manors and advowsons of Keyston and Southoe (which he had assigned to her at the church-door as dower), and leave to retain the premises, 3 October 1355. In or before June 1361, she was living with the King's daughter, the Countess of Ulster, by the King's command: on 1 October 1365 she was granted an annuity of 100 marks, for life. She died in London, 29 June 1375. [Complete Peerage V:310-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]--------------------------Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers, of Chartley, summoned to parliament 25 February, 1342. This nobleman was of a martial character, and served frequently in the Scotch and French wars of Henry III and, finally, the year before his decease, participated in the glorious victory of Cressy. His lordship m. Agnes, dau. of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, by whom he had issue, John, his successor; Robert, summoned to parliament as Baron Ferrers, of Wemme. He d. in 1350, and was s. by his elder son, John de Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers, of Chartley. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 199, Ferrers, Barons Ferrers of Chartley]

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• Birthday March 25, 1309
• Day of death August 28, 1350

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