See also

Family of Robert I + of FERRERS and Margaret + PEVEREL

Husband: Robert I + of FERRERS (1062-1139)
Wife: Margaret + PEVEREL (1114- )
Children: Walkelin + of FERRIERES (1135-1190)
Robert of FERRERS ( -1162)
Marriage 1135 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Husband: Robert I + of FERRERS

Name: Robert I + of FERRERS
Sex: Male
Father: Henry of FERRERS (1036-1088)
Mother: Berthe + ROBERTS (1040-1130)
Birth 1062 Derbyshire, England
Occupation Earl of Derby
Title frm 1138 to 1139 (age 75-77) Earl of Derby
Death 1139 (age 76-77) Merevale, Warwickshire,England

Wife: Margaret + PEVEREL

Name: Margaret + PEVEREL
Sex: Female
Father: William + PEVEREL (1080-1155)
Mother: Avicia + of LANCASTER (1088-1150)
Birth 1114 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Occupation Countess of Derby
Death

Child 1: Walkelin + of FERRIERES

Name: Walkelin + of FERRIERES
Sex: Male
Spouse 1: Goda + of TONI (1138-1186)
Spouse 2: Sybil + of BRAOSE (1148-1227)
Birth 1135 Oakham, Rutlandshire, England
Death 1190 (age 54-55)

Child 2: Robert of FERRERS

Name: Robert of FERRERS
Sex: Male
Spouse: Margaret + PEVEREL (1114- )
Title frm 1139 to 1162 Earl of Derby
Occupation Earl of Derby
Death 1162

Note on Husband: Robert I + of FERRERS

Robert I de Ferrers, 1st Earl of Derby (c. 1062 – 1139) was born in Derbyshire, England, a younger son of Henry de Ferrières and his wife Bertha Roberts (I'Aigle). His father, born in Ferrières, Normandy, France accompanied William the Conqueror during his invasion of England. The family was rewarded with a grant of Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire and 114 manors in Derbyshire.

 

Robert's elder brother William's main interests were in France. He joined Robert Curthose and was captured at Tinchebrai. His other brother Engenulf died shortly after his father and so Robert succeeded to the estates in 1088.

 

From the beginning, he gave great support to Henry I. As part of his tenure of Duffield Frith in 1129-30, he is on record as having interests in lead mines at Wirksworth. At about this time he granted the church of Potterspury, Northamptonshire, to Bernard the Scribe.

 

It is, however, during his last years that he is most in evidence as a leading supporter of King Stephen He took a large body of Derbyshire men northwards to assist in repelling an invasion of the Scots under King David I of Scotland, nominally on the behalf of Matilda. Little actual fighting took place, but Thurstan, Archbishop of York, won the Battle of the Standard on Stephen's behalf, fought near Northallerton, on 22, August, 1138.

 

Robert was mainly instrumental in securing the victory for his Sovereign, who for this and other important services created him Earl of Derby, although charters and chronicles during this period refer to him interchangeably as Earl Ferrers, earl of Nottingham or earl of Derby.

 

He died in the following year (1139) and was succeeded in his earldom by his second but eldest surviving son Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby often known as Robert de Ferrars the Younger.

 

As with most Norman lords, the Ferrers brought their Norman underlords to England with them - in this case, the Curzon (of Kedleston), Livet (Levett) and Boscherville (Baskerville) families, who held their fiefs in Normandy from the Ferrers, and who subsequently held their English lands from Ferrers as well. (The undertenant family names derive from Notre-Dame-de-Courson, Livet-en-Ouche and Boscherville, all part of the Ferrers barony in Normandy.) These undertenant retained their ties to the Ferrers after the families had moved to England following the Norman Conquest.[1]

Note on Wife: Margaret + PEVEREL

Margaret Peverell, Countess of Derby (b. circa 1114, Nottinghamshire, England), was an English noblewoman who lived at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, England.

 

[edit] Family and marriageMargaret was the daughter of William Peverel the Younger of Peveril Castle in Derbyshire and his wife, Avicia de Lancaster. Her grandfather was William Peverel.

 

She married Robert Ferrers and thus became Countess of Derby. She was the mother of William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, Walkelin de Ferrers and a daughter, Petronella.[citation needed]

 

She died on an unknown date and was buried in Merevale Abbey alongside her husband