1st Earl of Derby Robert de Ferrers

1062 - 1139  (77 years)

• Name	Robert de Ferrers
  Title	1st Earl of Derby
  Birth	1062	Ferrers, Derbyshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	1139	Charterley, Staffordshire, England   [1]
  Person ID	I36685	Bob Juch's Tree
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	1st Earl Ferrers Henry de Ferrers,   b. Abt 1040
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Bertha,   b. Abt 1040
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1061	Normandy, France
  Family ID	F13653	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hawise de Vitre,   b. 1069, Vitre, Brittany, France
  Marriage	1087
  Children	1. 2nd Earl of Derby Robert de Ferrers,   b. 1100, Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d. 1160, Merevale, Warwickshire, England (Age 60 years)  [natural]   2. de Ferrers,   b. Abt 1105, Derby, Derbyshire, England  [natural]
  Family ID	F13502	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Robert de Ferrers, having contributed, at the head of the Derbyshire men, to King Stephen's victory over King David of Scotland at Northallerton (commonly called the battle of the Standard), was created by that monarch Earl of Derby. By Hawise his wife, he had William who d. s. p.; Robert this successor; Walcheline, of Okeham; Isolda, m. to Stephen de Beauchamp; and Maud, m. to Bertram de Verdon. The earl d. in 1139 and was s. by his son, Robert de Ferrers, as 2nd Earl of Derby. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 196, Verdon, Earls of Derby]

  
  

• Sources

  [S222] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, 55-26.