Person:John de Ferrers (1)

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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 Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford. He was both Seneschal of Gascony and Lieutenant of Aquitaine in 1312, the year of his death.

He married Hawise de Muscegros, a daughter of Robert de Muscegros.

Their eldest son John (died by 1324) inherited the title Baron Ferrers of Chartley upon his father's death from poisoning in Gascony in 1312.^[1]

John de Ferrers, only son of Robert de Ferrers, 8th and last Earl of Derby of that family, after the forfeiture of his father, was summoned to parliament as Baron Ferrers of Chartley, co. Stafford, 6 February, 1299, a seat which came into the family of Ferrers by the marriage of William, 5th Earl of Derby, with Agnes, sister and co-heir of Ranulph, Earl of Chester. This John, inheriting the turbulent spirit of his father, joined the Earl of Hertford and others in the 25th Edward I [1297] in opposing the collection of the subsidies granted by the parliament then held at St. Edmundsbury, to the crown, but the ferment was allayed by the king's confirming Magna Carta and the charter of the Forests, and by declaring that, in future, no tax should be imposed upon the subject without the consent of parliament, and at the same time granting a pardon to the discontented lords and their adherents, in which pardon John de Ferrers is especially named. Soon after this he petitioned Pope Nicholas III that his holiness should interfere to procure him the lands of his late father which had been conferred upon Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, but his suit was ineffectual. He was subsequently in the Scottish wars and was then raised to the peerage as stated above. His lordship m. Hawyse, dau. and heiress of Sir Robert de Muscegros, of Charlton, co. Somerset, by whom he acquired a great increase to his fortune. In the 34th Edward I [1306], he was again in the wars of Scotland and, subsequently, in the 4th Edward II [1311], the year following which he was constituted seneschal of Aquitaine. He d. in 13424 and was s. by his son, Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers, of Chartley. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 199, Ferrers, Barons Ferrers of Chartley]

1.   John de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Plantagenet Ancestry. (2004, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD)
   p. 307.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Weis, Frederick Lewis; Walter Lee Sheppard; and David Faris. Ancestral roots of certain American colonists, who came to America before 1700: the lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and some of their descendants. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 7th Edition c1992)
   line 57, no. 31.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Sir John Ferrers, in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.