Richard and Charlotte Allen Cosby Ancestry » Sir William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby II (1140-< 1190)

Personal data Sir William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby II 

• Alternative names: William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Chester, William de Ferrieres 03rd Earl of Derby, 3rd William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby William de Ferrers, William de Ferrieres 3rd Earl of Derby
• He was born in the year 1140 in Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
• Alternative: He was born in the year 1136 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, England.
• He died before October 21, 1190 in Seige of Acre, Palestine.
• Alternative: He died on October 21, 1190 in Siege of Acre, Palestine, he was 50 years old.
• Alternative: He died before October 21, 1190 in Siege of Acre, Jerusalem, Palestine.Sources 1, 3
• A child of Sir Robert de Ferrers, and Margaret Peverel

Household of Sir William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby II

He is married to Sybil de Braose.

They got married in the year 1171 at Tutbury, Staffordshire, England, he was 31 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Millicent de Ferrers  ± 1171-± 1190 
2. Sir William de Ferrers,  1172-1247 
3. Agatha de Ferrers  ± 1175-1216
4. Petronella de Ferrers  < 1191-> 1237 

Notes about Sir William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby II

EARLDOM OF DERBY (III) 115?d burnt Nottingham in May or June 1174. He made his submission to the King at Northampton, 31 July 1174, surrendering his castles of Tutbury and Duffield (c). The King took him, with other prisoners, to France in August following, and imprisoned them at Caen.illiam DE HEREFORD, and 2nd daughter of Miles (DE GLOUCESTER), EARL OF HEREFORD (e). He died on Crusade, at the siege of Acre, in palestine, in 1190, before 21 October. His wife survived him, and married 2ndly Adam de Port, Lord of Basing, who died 1213, and was, perhaps, living as late as 5 February 1227/8. [Complete Peerage IV:192-4, XIV:250, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]e was one of those which the King caused to be demolished in Dec 1175.s been the principal source of error in the various pedigrees of the Earls of Derby that have been put forward. For mistake it must be. In what may be called the official account 'de farsifacte Willelmi de Boasa (son of the William mentioned in the text) in 1208, it is twice mentioned that 'W. Comes de Ferariis was nepos suus.' And the Earl is one of the witnesses to the truth of the document. Now it is perfectly certain that the Earl of Ferrieres living in 1208 was son of a William, and not of a Robert. It appears, however, that this whole charter is a fabication by Vincent. Apart from giving the wrong name to the Earl, the charter is nearly identical to one of Robert de Stafford for Bordersley Abbey. This charter being the sole evidence for the marriage of Earl William, it now does not appear whom he did marry. [last 3 sentences added by XIV:250)eicestershire men (19th Henry II) upon Nottingham, then kept for the king by Reginald de Luci, got possession of the town which he sacked, putting the greater part of the inhabitants to the sword and taking the rest prisoners. He was soon afterwards, however, reduced to submission and obliged to surrender to the crown his castles in Tutbury and Duffield, which were demolished by order of the king. His lordship m. Sibilla, dau. of William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny and Brecknock, by whom he had issue. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 196, Ferrers, Earls of Derby], I feel there could have been two brothers, William and Robert, Robert being the Earl and when he died at Acre his nephew William [son of his brother William] succeeded, but no documents support this theory! In The Complete Peerage vol. XIV, p. 250 it is suggested that Robert is a fabrication by Vincent, Earl of Ferrieres. [Brian Tompsett, Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal04492]

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