Tenth Generation  

60. Eleanor de FERRERS [81895] (John of Chartley (1st Baron)⁵⁶, Robert of Derby (6th Earl)⁴⁹, William of Derby (5th Earl)³⁴, William of Derby (4th Earl)²⁶, William of Derby (3rd Earl)²⁰, Robert 2nd Earl of Derby (Sir)¹⁴, Robert of Derby (1st Earl)⁶, Henry of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire and Chambray (Sir)², Walkelin de Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire (Seigneur)¹) was born in 1305 and died in 1399 at age 94.

Eleanor married Sir Thomas de LATHAM II of Lathom [81894]. Thomas died in 1370.

The child from this marriage was:

+ 73    i. Sir Thomas Mathias de LATHAM [81893] was born in 1324 and died in 1382 at age 58.

62. 3rd Baron Robert de FERRERS of Chartley [120249] (John of Chartley (1st Baron)⁵⁶, Robert of Derby (6th Earl)⁴⁹, William of Derby (5th Earl)³⁴, William of Derby (4th Earl)²⁶, William of Derby (3rd Earl)²⁰, Robert 2nd Earl of Derby (Sir)¹⁴, Robert of Derby (1st Earl)⁶, Henry of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire and Chambray (Sir)², Walkelin de Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire (Seigneur)¹) was born on 25 Mar 1309 and died on 28 Aug 1350 at age 41.

General Notes: Wikipedia says:
He had inherited the title Baron Ferrers of Chartley from his elder brother John, 2nd Baron, between 1321 and July 1324,[2] and was summoned to parliament on 25 February 1342.[1]

Robert served frequently in the Scottish and French wars of Edward III as well as participating the victory at Cressy.[1]

Before 20 October 1333, he married a woman named Margaret. They had one son, John who succeeded his father as John de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley.[1]

After the death of Margaret, Robert remarried to Joan de la Mote before 1350. They had one son, Sir Robert Ferrers, summoned to parliament as 'Robert Ferrers of Wem' as husband of Elizabeth Boteler, 4th Baroness Boteler of Wem, by whom he had Robert Ferrers of Wem

Robert married Agnes de BOHUN [120242]. Agnes was born about 1313.

Robert next married Isabel de VERDUN [122045] in 1328 in Newbold Verdon Leicestershire England. Isabel was born on 21 Mar 1317 in Amesbury Priory Wiltshire England and died on 25 Jul 1349 at age 32.

General Notes: Wikipedia says:
Isabel was born at Amesbury Priory, Wiltshire, on 21 March 1317, the only child of the marriage of Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Baron Verdun, Justiciar of Ireland (born 8 September 1278) and Lady Elizabeth de Clare. She was born eight months after her father died of typhoid on 27 July 1316. He and Elizabeth had been engaged before she was called back to England by Edward II, intent on marrying her to one of his own supporters. So Theobald abducted Elizabeth from Bristol Castle in early 1316, and married her shortly afterwards on 4 February. Elizabeth was his second wife, his first wife having been Maud Mortimer (c.1289- 18 September 1312). Isabel had three half-sisters from her father's prior marriage, Joan de Verdun, Elizabeth de Verdun, and Margery de Verdun.

Isabel, along with her three de Verdon half-sisters, was a co-heiress of her father. She is occasionally referred to as Heiress of Ludlow.

Theobald was Elizabeth's second husband, her first husband John de Burgh had died in a minor skirmish in Galway, Ireland on 18 June 1313. She had a son by de Burgh, William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (17 September 1312- 6 June 1333), who was Isabel's uterine half-brother. William would later marry Maud of Lancaster, by whom he had a daughter Elizabeth de Burgh, suo jure 4th Countess of Ulster (6 July 1332- 10 December 1363). Following the death of her brother Gilbert at Bannockburn in 1314, Elizabeth, along with her two sisters, Margaret and Eleanor, became one of the greatest heiresses in England. Her uncle, King Edward II of England, ordered her to return to England, where he planned to select a husband for her from among his supporters. She was placed in Bristol Castle where Verdun would afterwards abduct her, to the fury of King Edward.

After her husband's death, Elizabeth, pregnant with Verdun's child, fled to Amesbury Priory and placed herself under the protection of her aunt, Mary de Burgh, who was one of the nuns. It was there that she gave birth to Isabel.

Isabel's birth is recorded in an entry of King Edward II's Wardrobe Accounts, as well as the King's gift of a silver-gilt cup which valued at one pound, ten shillings.

Her paternal grandparents were Theobald de Verdun, 1st Lord Verdun and Margery de Bohun, and her maternal grandparents were Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester, and Joan of Acre, the daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile.

The child from this marriage was:

   74    i. de FERRERS [122046] was born in Feb 1331 and died in 1331.

Robert next married Margaret [122049] before 20 Oct 1333.

The child from this marriage was:

+ 75    i. 4th Baron John de FERRERS Chartley [122050] was born about 1331 in Southhoe Huntingdonshire England and died on 3 Apr 1367 in Castille Spain aged about 36.

68. 1st Earl Ralph de STAFFORD of Stafford [121973] (1st Baron Edmund STAFFORD Stafford⁵⁹, Nicholas de STAFFORD⁵¹, Robert de STAFFORD⁴³, Lady Petronille de FERRERS of Derby³³, William of Derby (3rd Earl)²⁰, Robert 2nd Earl of Derby (Sir)¹⁴, Robert of Derby (1st Earl)⁶, Henry of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire and Chambray (Sir)², Walkelin de Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire (Seigneur)¹) was born on 24 Sep 1301 and died on 31 Aug 1372 at age 70.

General Notes: Wikipedia says.
Stafford was made a Knight banneret in 1327 and was fighting the Scots shortly afterwards. He supported the plot to free Edward III of England from the control of Roger Mortimer, which earned the king's gratitude. By the summer of 1332, he was a commissioner of the peace in Staffordshire and had served abroad on royal business, accompanying Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester. He was also still fighting the Scots, commanding archers at the Battle of Dupplin Moor on 11 Aug 1332 and on three further Scottish campaigns.[5]

He was first summoned to Parliament by writ as Lord Stafford on 29 November 1336 and continued to attend until 1350.

His military career continued, accompanying King Edward to France in 1338 as an advisor and being present at the naval battle of Sluys on 24 June 1340. He also fought at the relief of Brest and the siege of Morlaix. He was captured at Vannes but was exchanged in time to negotiate a truce at Malestroit.

On 6 January 1341, he was made Steward of the Royal Household but resigned that post on 29 March 1345 having assumed the office of Seneschal of Aquitaine, an English possession in France, where he stayed for about a year. He took part in the Gascon campaign of 1345 including the battles of Bergerac and Auberoche, the siege of Aiguillon, from where he escaped prior to its lifting, a raid on Barfleur and the English victory at the Battle of Crecy, on 26 August 1346. He became one of the twenty-six founding members and the fifth knight of the Order of the Garter in 1348.[5][6]

In November 1347, his wife's father died; they were able to take possession of his estates without paying the king's homage, an indication of the relationship between them. Ralph was now a very wealthy man, from his estates and from the many prizes from the French war.[5]

Edward III created a number of new peerage titles to honour his war captains and to mark his jubilee year. Ralph was created the 1st Earl of Stafford on 5 March 1350, with an annuity of 1000 marks. He now replaced Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster as the king's lieutenant in Gascony. He committed to serve with 200 men at his own expense with the expectation of this being doubled in March 1353 at the king's expense. The campaigns provided several captives that were ransomed, but were ultimately unsuccessful, leading to the appointment of Edward, Prince of Wales to command.[5]

Even at the age of sixty, Stafford continued to command troops and act as a royal envoy, both in France and in Ireland in 1361, accompanying Lionel of Antwerp to try and restore English control.

Ralph married Katherine de HASTANG [122221] about 1326.

Children from this marriage were:

   76    i. Margaret STAFFORD [122223] .

Margaret married Sir John de STAFFORD of Bramshall [122224].

   77    ii. Joan de STAFFORD [122225] .

Joan married Sir Nicholas de BEKE [122226].

Ralph next married Countess Margaret AUDLEY de Stafford [121974]. Margaret was born in Jan 1305 in Stafford Staffordshire England, died on 7 Sep 1347 in Tonbridge Kent England at age 42, and was buried in Tonbridge Kent England.

Noted events in her life were:

• Birth: at Stafford Castle, Jan 1305, Stafford Staffordshire England.

Children from this marriage were:

   78    i. Ralph de STAFFORD [122232] died in 1347.

Ralph married Countess Maud de GROSMONT of Leicester [122229] in 1344. Maud was born on 4 Apr 1340 in Leicester Castle Leicester Leicestershire England and died on 10 Apr 1362 at age 22.

+ 79    ii. 2nd Earl Hugh STAFFORD of Stafford [120411] was born about 1336 and died on 16 Oct 1386 aged about 50.

+ 80    iii. Elizabeth STAFFORD [122051] was born about 1340 and died on 7 Aug 1375 aged about 35.

   81    iv. Beatrice de STAFFORD [122235] was born about 1341 in Staffordshire England and died in 1415 aged about 74.

Beatrice married 2nd Earl Maurice FITZGERALD of Desmond [122236] in 1350. Maurice died in Jun 1358.

Beatrice next married 4th Baron Thomas de ROS de Ros [122239]. Thomas was born on 13 Jan 1335 and died on 8 Jun 1384 at age 49.

General Notes: Wiklipedia says,
Thomas Ros, 4th Baron Ros of Helmsley (13 January 1335 \endash 8 June 1384) was the son of William Ros, 2nd Baron Ros and Margery de Badlesmere.

In 1364, he accompanied the king of Cyprus to the Holy Land; and was in the French wars, from 1369 to 1371. He was summoned to parliament by both King Edward III of England and King Richard II of England. He died at Uffington, Lincolnshire, 8 June 1384, and was buried at Rievaulx Abbey. His widow became the wife of Sir Richard Burley.

71. 1st Baron Richard STAFFORD Stafford of Clifton K.B. [122209] (1st Baron Edmund STAFFORD Stafford⁵⁹, Nicholas de STAFFORD⁵¹, Robert de STAFFORD⁴³, Lady Petronille de FERRERS of Derby³³, William of Derby (3rd Earl)²⁰, Robert 2nd Earl of Derby (Sir)¹⁴, Robert of Derby (1st Earl)⁶, Henry of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire and Chambray (Sir)², Walkelin de Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire (Seigneur)¹) was born about 1305 in Tunbridge Newcastle-under-Lyme Staffordshire England and died on 31 Aug 1372 in Clifton Campville Staffordshire England aged about 67.

General Notes: Wikipedia says,
Stafford was involved in the French campaigns of King Edward III of England during the Hundred Years' War. His actions during the war are at times unclear, for the contemporary historian Jean Froissart often confused Richard with his brother Ralph. In 1337, Stafford was sent with others on an embassy to the courts of William II, Count of Hainaut and Reginald II, Count of Guelders, as well as Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor.[2]

In November 1337, Richard participated in the victory at Cadzand and was in the king's army at present at the bloodless meeting of the English and French armies in October 1339 at Vironfosse. His brother held command of the English forces during the Gascon campaign of 1345, and Richard was among the prominent leaders of the campaign. During the campaign, Stafford participated in the siege of Bergerac, commanded the garrison at Libourne, and assisted in the relief of Auberoche, and the attack on La Réole. Stafford also participated in the Battle of Crécy in 1346; after the battle, Stafford and Reginald de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham were tasked to count the slain. He was also at the Siege of Calais between 1346 and 1347.[2]

In 1355, Stafford followed the Edward the Black Prince to Gascony and participated in his expedition into France in 1355. He was sent to England with letters in December, but rejoined the prince's army afterwards and fought at the Battle of Poitiers on 19 September 1356. Stafford and his brother accompanied Edward III on his expedition to France in October 1359. He was appointed to the office of Seneschal of Gascony in 1361 and served until 8 June 1362. During 1366, Richard was appointed to go on an embassy, accompanied by his son Richard, to the papal court.[2] Summoned to parliament, as Baron Stafford of Clifton, on 8 January 1371, and regularly summoned until 1379. He died on 13 August 1380 and was buried at the St Andrew's Church, Clifton Campville, Staffordshire. A memorial brass is located within St Peter's Church, Elford, Staffordshire.

Richard married Isabel de VERNON [122210].

Children from this marriage were:

   82    i. Sir Richard STAFFORD [122213] died before 1380.

Richard married Alice BLOUNT [122214].

   83    ii. Bishop Edmund STAFFORD of Exeter [122215] was born in 1344 and died in 1419 at age 75.

   84    iii. Sir Thomas STAFFORD Marshall of Ireland [122216] died about 1397.

Thomas married Alice SULNEY [122217].

   85    iv. Maud STAFFORD [122218] . (Died young)

   86    v. Katherine STAFFORD [122219] .

Katherine married Sir Thomas de ADERNE of Elford [122220].