Robert de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley

Sir Robert de Ferrers [k], Lord of Chartley, Knight, b 31 Oct 1357 or 1359, prob Staffordshire, England, d abt 12 Mar 1413/14.

Married

1. Elizabeth after 16 Sep 1376 ..... (d. after Jan 1378/9)
2. Margaret le Despenser abt 1390, daughter of Sir Edward le Despenser and Elizabeth de Burghersh.

children by second wife

• 1. Sir Edmund Ferrers, later 6th Baron Ferrers of Chartley
• 2. Thomas Ferrers (d. after Apr 1416)
• 3. Edward Ferrers (d. betw. 30 Sep 1415 and 6 Feb 1415/6; bur. in the Church of St Martin, Harfleur, France)
• 1. Philippa Ferrers (bur. at Green's Norton, co. Warwick), mar. Sir Thomas Green, of Boughton and Green's Norton, co. Northampton (b. 10 Feb 1399/1400; d. 18 Jan 1461/2; bur. at Green's Norton, co. Warwick), and had issue

Source : http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/ferrersc1299.htm#F...

biography

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Robert de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (c. 1358 – 1413) was the son of John de Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley and Elizabeth de Stafford, a daughter of Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford and Margaret de Audley.

He inherited the title of Baron Ferrers of Chartley upon his father's death at the Battle of Najera on 3 April 1367 but was never summoned to parliament.

Robert married Margaret Le Despenser (born around 1360) a daughter of Sir Edward Le Despenser a Knight of the Garter.

The couple had one son [SIC: 3 sons] Edmund, who became Edmund de Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley upon the death of his father around 1412.

Robert de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley died sometime around 1413 and is buried at Merevale Abbey in Warwickshire.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
• www.thepeerage.com

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• Furtaw & Edwards Ancestry
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