*Henry Seigneur de Ferrers et Chambrey
born about 1036
Ferrieres, Normandy, France
died 1088 Castle Tutbury, Staffordshire, England
buried
Castle Tutbury, Staffordshire, England
father:
*Lord
Vaugelin (Walcheline) de Feriers
born Abt 1010
died 1089?
mother:
unknown
siblings:
*Gundella
(Gunred) (Gundreda) Ferrers born about 1036 Normandy, France
Isbel
De Ferrers born 1040 Normandy, France
Hugh Ferrers born 1038 Normandy,
France died 1204
spouse:
*Bertha Roberts
born
about 1040 Gostenois, Normandy, France
died Darley, Derbyshire, England
married
about 1061 Normandy, France
children:
Enguenulf de Ferriers
William
de Ferriers
*Robert de Ferrers First Earl of Derby
born
about 1062 Derbyshire, England
christened Charterley, Staffordshire, England
died
1139
*Gundred de Ferrers born before 1090 <Derbyshire>,
England
Emmeline Ferriers
biographical and/or anecdotal:
*Henry
de Ferriers, son of *Walcheline de Feriers, obtained from William the
Conqueror, a grant of Tutbury Castle, Stafford, with extensive possessions in other
shires, of which one hundred and fourteen manors were in Derbyshire. He must have
been of considerable rank, not only from those enormous grants, but from the circumstances
of his being one of the commissioners appointed by King William to make the Grand
Survey, the Domesday Record, of the kingdom. He was the founder of the priory of
Tutbury, which he liberally endowed.
Crispin and Macary report: " Henry
de Ferrieres is referred to by Wace thus;" Henri li sire de Ferrieres,"
and he who then held Tillieres. He was seigneur de Saint Hilaire de Ferriers near
Bernay and the son, of Walkelin de Ferrers, who fell in a contest with Hugh de Montfort
I. early in the reign of Duke William, in which both of these noblemen were killed.
He had an older brother William, also reported at Hastings, undoubtedly well advanced
in years at that time, who died before the compilation of Domesday, where his name
does not appear. Henry de Ferrers received 210 manors, 114 of which were in Derbyshire.
The seat of his chief barony was Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, which had previously
belonged to Hugh Lupus, but upon the latter becoming the Earl of Chester in 1071,
it was granted to Henry de Ferrers, who founded nearby a Cluniac monastery. Henry
was appointed one of the commissioners for the general survey in 1085 and richly
endowed the priory of Tutbury in 1089.
notes or source:
LDS