Baron Ferrers Of Chartley
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The title Baron Ferrers of Chartley was created on 6 February 1299 for John de Ferrers, son of
Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby (1239–1279) was an English nobleman. He was born at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, England, the son of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, by his second wife Margaret de Quincy (born 1218), a daug ...
. The daughter of the 6th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, Anne, married Walter Devereux who was summoned to
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as Lord Ferrers in her right. Their descendants became
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and the peerage was forfeited in 1601 on the attainder of
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, but restored to his son
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in 1604, on whose death in 1646 the peerage fell into abeyance. The abeyance was terminated in 1677 when
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, a grandson of one of the sisters of the 3rd Earl of Essex, was summoned as Lord Ferrers of Chartley with precedence to the original creation. In 1711, Shirley was created the 1st
Earl Ferrers Earl Ferrers is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1711 for Robert Shirley, 14th Baron Ferrers of Chartley. The Shirley family descends from George Shirley (died 1622) of Astwell Castle, Northamptonshire. In 1611 he w ...
, but the Earldom and Barony separated at his death, the barony going to Elizabeth Shirley, the daughter of his eldest son, while the earldom went to his second son. On the 1741 death of Elizabeth Shirley, 15th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley and wife of the
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, the peerage again briefly fell into an abeyance that was resolved in 1749 by the death of two of the three heiresses, leaving the surviving daughter, Charlotte Compton, wife of the
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, as 16th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley. The barony continued, merged with the marquessate, until the death of George Ferrars Townshend, 3rd Marquess Townshend in 1855, when it again fell into abeyance between his two sisters and their heirs. It remains in abeyance.


Origins of the Ferrers of Chartley family

The Lords Ferrers of Chartley descended
Henry de Ferrers Henry de Ferrers (died by 1100), magnate and administrator, was a Normans, Norman who after the 1066 Norman conquest of England, Norman conquest was awarded extensive lands in England. Origins He was the eldest son of Vauquelin de Ferrers and i ...
, of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire in
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, who participated in the
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, and was richly rewarded by King
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with the grant of 210 manors throughout
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and
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, situated mainly in
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and
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. His son Robert de Ferrers was named
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, and this title continued in the family until
Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby (1239–1279) was an English nobleman. He was born at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, England, the son of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, by his second wife Margaret de Quincy (born 1218), a daug ...
was attainted in 1267 for his participation in the
Second Barons' War The Second Barons' War (1264–1267) was a civil war in Kingdom of England, England between the forces of barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort against the royalist forces of Henry III of England, King Hen ...
against king Henry III. Draconian terms were set for the reacquisition of his lands, and he was only able to have the manor of Chartley, Staffordshire, restored to him, in 1275. John de Ferrers, son and heir of the former 6th Earl, would continue his father's struggle for restoration of family lands until barred from pursuing it further by
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in 1301. He was summoned in 1298/9 to
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, thereby becoming the first Baron Ferrers of Chartley.


Barons Ferrers of Chartley (1299)

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John de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley John de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley (20 June 1271 Cardiff – 1312) was the son of Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby and Alianore de Bohun, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Eleanor de Braose, and granddaughter of Humphrey de Bo ...
(1271–1312), son of Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby, summoned by writ to parliament, thereby becoming Baron Ferrers of Chartley; * John de Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Chartley (died by 1324); * Robert de Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1309–1350); * John de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1329–1367); * Robert de Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1360–1413); * Edmund de Ferrers, 6th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1389–1435); * William de Ferrers, 7th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1412–1450); * Anne de Ferrers, 8th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley (1438–1468), who as a female was able to succeed to a barony created by writ. Her husband Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, was summoned to parliament as Lord Ferrers ''
jure uxoris ''Jure uxoris'' (a Latin phrase meaning "by right of (his) wife"), citing . describes a title of nobility used by a man because his wife holds the office or title '' suo jure'' ("in her own right"). Similarly, the husband of an heiress could beco ...
'' (in her right) and died 1485. *
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(1463–1501), succeeded on his mother's death; * Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford, 10th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1491–1558); * Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, 2nd Viscount Hereford, 11th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1540–1576); * Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 3rd Viscount Hereford, 12th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1567–1601), on his death in 1601 the peerage was forfeited; * Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, 4th Viscount Hereford, 13th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1591–1646), titles restored in 1604; on his death in 1646 the barony fell into abeyance. * Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, 14th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1650–1717), abeyance of the barony terminated in 1677, in 1711 created 1st
Earl Ferrers Earl Ferrers is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1711 for Robert Shirley, 14th Baron Ferrers of Chartley. The Shirley family descends from George Shirley (died 1622) of Astwell Castle, Northamptonshire. In 1611 he w ...
; * Elizabeth Shirley, 15th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley (1694–1741), on her death in 1741 the barony again fell into abeyance. * Charlotte Compton, 16th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley (c.1710–1770), abeyance terminated in 1749; * George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend, 17th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1755–1811); * George Ferrars Townshend, 3rd Marquess Townshend, 18th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1788–1855), on his death the peerage again fell into abeyance, where it remains today.


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