Margaret Peverel

• Preferred Name: Margaret Peverel
  
• Gender: F
  
• Birth: in England with note: birth date of 1014 is suspect because the child is born after the mother's child-bearing years of age 52
  
• Death: in Rutland, England at LATI: N2.6681 LONG: E0.7249 with note: death date of 1136 is suspect because a child is born after that date
  
• FSID: LZX4-468
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Margaret Peverell, Countess of Derby (b. circa 1114, Nottinghamshire, England), was an English noblewoman who lived at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, England.
  
  Family and marriage
  Margaret was the daughter of William Peverel the Younger of Peveril Castle in Derbyshire[1][2][3]
  
  According to Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, she married Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby and thus became Countess of Derby. She was the mother of William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby and William De Ferrers, Lord of Eggington and a daughter, Petronella.{Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages}
  
  She died in 1154 and was buried in Merevale Abbey.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Peverell,_Countess_of_Derby
  
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  MARGARET Peverel was born circa 1114 at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England.
  She is the daughter of William Peverel and Alice de Lancaster.
  She married Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby, son of Robert de Ferrers, 1st Earl of Derby and Hawise de Vitre, in 1135 at Nottinghamshire, England.
  
  Child of Margaret Peverel and Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby
  - William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby b. 1140, d. a 31 Dec 1189
  
  http://www.thepeerage.com/p15854.htm#i158538
  
  [MARGARET ([1123/26]-). “Robertus comes de Ferrariis” property “in Stebbingis…per Margaretam comitissam uxorem meam” to Morice FitzGeoffrey by charter dated “VI Kal Oct IV anno imperii Regis Stephani” (1139)[259]. Her parentage is suggested by the charter of John King of England which names “Willelmo de Ferrariis comiti” as heir to territories of “Willelmi Peverell”[260]. If this parentage is correct, Margaret is unlikely to have been born outside the narrow date range shown above, which would also indicate that her marriage took place only shortly before the date of this charter. m (before 1139) ROBERT Ferrers Earl [of Derby], son of ROBERT de Ferrers Earl [of Derby] & his wife Hawise --- (-before 1160, bur Merevale Abbey).]
  
  http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/enguntps.htm#_Toc21095948
  
  William, The Younger, Peverell
  William was driven from the country after poisoning, Ranulph, Earl of Chester. this was done at the end of King Stephens reign. William was afraid Henry the Second would punish he severely, so he fl
  
  === Family note ===
  www.geocities.com/missourimule-200/ferrers.html?20086
  
  === Person note ===
  more info on Gentry-Woodson-? site of online family tree by Ancestry.com the family tree marked my woodson connections both are by Mark Ballard downloaded 2003 he has three trees downloaded
  
  birth place from www.geocities.com/missourimule-200/ferrers.html?20086
  
  === From the collection of Jerry Dean Ferren ===
  From the collection of Jerry Dean Ferren.
  
  === 'Margaret Peverel has been married by va ===
  'Margaret Peverel has been married by various genealogists to at leastthree successive Earls of Ferrers.' It certainly seems that one ofthese Earls must have married the Peverel heiress and in allprobability this Earl was that one.' George E. Cokayne, ed, CompletePeerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the UnitedKingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant (London, George Bell & Sons,1898),Vol. VIII, p. 369.
  
  He [Robert de Ferrieres] married Margaret, daughter and heir ofWilliam Peverel, of Nottingham. He died before 1160, and was buried inMerevale Abbey, wrapped in an oxhide. [Complete Peerage IV:191-2,XIV:230, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  'Margaret De Peverel who married William de Ferrers (ped. 110), towhom she brought Higham, since called Higham-Ferrers, inNorthamptonshire.' Edwin Jaquett Sellers, Fenwick Allied Ancestry:Ancestry of Thomas Fenwick of Sussex County (Philadelphia, Allen, Lane& Scott, 1916), p. 141.
  
  'In 1153 Henry Fitz Empress granted to Ranulf Earl of Chester, oncondition of his support, great possessions, including all the fee ofWilliam Peverel, except Higham. (fn. 77) The grant never took effect,but some nine months later Ranulf Earl of Chester died, poisoned, itis said, by William Peverel. On the accession of Henry to the throneas Henry II, Peverel, to avoid punishment, became a monk, probably atLenton (co. Notts.). His lands were seized by Henry II in 1155 (fn.78) and Higham Ferrers was for a year and a half farmed by Froger,archdeacon of Derby. (fn. 79) In 1157 it was granted, probably forlife, to Robert de Ferrers, second Earl of Derby, who had marriedMargaret, daughter and heir of William Peverel, her brother Henrybeing then apparently dead. (fn. 80) After the death of Robert in orabout 1159, Higham Ferrers was granted in 1161 to William, the King'sbrother, who died in 1164. (fn. 81) The manor remained in the King'shands until 1189, when King Richard I granted it to his brother, JohnCount of Mortain. (fn. 82) John farmed it to William de Sancte MarieEcclesia, (fn. 83) later Bishop of London, (fn. 84) and afterwards toWilliam Briwerre. (fn. 85) In 1199 William de Ferrers, fourth Earl ofDerby, son of William and grandson of Robert, second Earl of Derby,purchased for 2,000 marks from King John the manor, hundred and parkof Higham Ferrers and certain other lands, at the same timerelinquishing what claim he had through his grandmother, MargaretPeverel, to the other lands of William Peverel. (fn. 86)
  
  77 Cott. Chart. xvii, 2.
  78 Ibid.
  79 Hunter, Great Roll of the Pipe (Rec. Com.), 42; Red Bk. of Excheq.(Rolls Ser.) ii, 681.
  80 Complete Peerage, loc. cit.
  81 Farrer, op. cit. i, 203.
  82 Hunter, Great Roll of the Pipe (Rec. Com.), p. 97.
  83 Farrer, loc. cit.
  84 D. N. B.
  85 Farrer, loc. cit.
  86 Fine R. 1 John, m. 23; Hardy, Rot. de Oblat. et Fin. p. 3; Pipe R.1 John, m. 2d.
  
  From: 'The borough of Higham Ferrers', A History of the County ofNorthampton: Volume 3 (1930), pp. 263-279. URL:http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66300 Dateaccessed: 05 February 2009.
  
  === Background information concerning Margaret Peverell ===
  As is evidenced from the many entries and notes that have been added to FamilySearch.org by researchers, it is very apparent that much confusion exists in records concerning The Ferrers family of Derbyshire and the Earls of Derby. Even the most ancient available records do not seem to agree in all of the particulars concerning the pedigree of this family. It appears one of the most reliable record concerning the Ferrers family is found in Burke’s Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages which gives the pedigree of the family as follows: Walkelin (also Walcheline and Vauquelin) de Ferrers, father of Henry de Ferrers (who accompanied William the Conqueror to England), father of Robert de Ferrers the First Earl of Derby, father of Robert de Ferrers the Second Earl of Derby, father of William de Ferrers the Third Earl of Derby, father of Robert de Ferrers the Fourth Earl of Derby, father of William de Ferrers the Fifth Earl of Derby, etc. However, The Battle Abbey Roll by the Duchess Cleveland gives a slightly different pedigree as follows: Walkelin de Ferrers, father of Henry de Ferrers, father of Robert de Ferrers the First Earl of Derby, father of Robert de Ferrers the Earl of Nottingham and Derby, grandfather of the Fourth Earl (Third Earl [William] is missing and the Fourth Earl is unnamed), father of the next Earl William (Fifth Earl), etc.
  
  Much of the confusion appears to center around the fact that all the Ferrers, Earls of Derby, are named Robert or William all the way to the Sixth or the Seventh Earl when the creation of Earl of Derby with Ferrers holding the title went extinct, only to be recreated later with a different family, and it appears many records have missed a generation or have combined two different generations of the same name.
  
  Thus, it is also very understandable that confusion exists as to the identities of the wives of the different Earls of Derby, if the names of the wives exist at all in the records. For example, Margaret Peverell is reported in various records as the wife of three of the Earls of Derby: Robert de Ferrers the Second Earl, William de Ferrers the Third Earl and William de Ferrers the Fifth Earl. Burke’s Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages lists Margaret Peverel as the wife of William de Ferrers the Third Earl. The Battle Abbey Roll appears to agree stating: “…William, the next Earl (William the Fifth Earl), was the partisan and favourite of King John, and received vast grants of lands; amonst them the great Northamptonshire estates of William Peverel, whose daughter and heir had, says Dugdale, married his grandfather (William the Third Earl)…” British History Online also has an entry reporting Margaret is the wife of William de Ferrers. Other records, however, question the very existence of Margaret Peverell, even referring to her as the “Phantom Margaret”. However, Cokayne's Complete Peerage reports Margaret is the wife of Robert de Ferrers, the 2nd Earl. And the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy also places Margaret as the wife of Robert de Ferrers, the 2nd Earl. In addition, an entry in Cokayne's Complete Peerage for William Peverell reports Margaret is the wife of Robert de Ferres, the 2nd Earl and The History of the County of Derby concurs that Margaret is the wife of Robert de Ferrers [See documents in the Memories section].
  
  It appears from the above evidence that the majority of the historical records make Margaret Peverell the wife of Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby, which would make her the mother of William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby rather than his wife. Although Burke’s Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, the Duchess Cleveland’s Battle Abbey Roll and British History Online, report Margaret is the wife of William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, it seems prudent to place Margaret Peverel as the wife of Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby, making her the mother of William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby. There is clearly a very close connection between Margaret Peverell and William de Ferrers, but that connection is most likely mother and son rather than husband and wife and the reported dates of birth would seem to bear that out.
  
  === Margaret Peverell, Countess of Derby (b. ===
  Margaret Peverell, Countess of Derby (b. circa 1114, Nottinghamshire, England), was an English noblewoman who lived at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, England.
  
  She married Robert Ferrers and thus became Countess of Derby. She was the mother of William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, Walkelin de Ferrers and a daughter, Petronella.

• m. 1130 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, , England
• m. 1135 in Nottinghamshire, England

1. William Walcheline Sir Knight Crusader Lord Oakham Third Earl Derby De Ferrers, b. 1140 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, England     d. 21 OCT 1190 in during siege of Acre, Palestine(crusades)