Ranulph De Ferrers

• Preferred Name: Ranulph De Ferrers^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Religion: Parson of St Michael's on the Wyre
  
• FSID: GJZ6-9H3
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Reginald-de-Ferrers-of-Bere-Ferrers/6000000008227709165
  
• Birth: ABT 1200 in of Derby, Derbyshire, England at LATI: N2.9235 LONG: E1.477
  
• Death: 22 SEP 1247 in Belper, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N3.0278 LONG: E1.4748 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “AGNES OF CHESTER, married in 1192 WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt, 4th Earl of Derby, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1194, Sheriff of Lancashire, 1223-8, son and heir of William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, by Sibyl, daughter of William de Briouze (or Brewes). They had five sons, William, Knt. [5th Earl of Derby], Thomas, Knt, Hugh, Knt., Robert, and Ranulph (parson of St. Michael's on the Wyre, Lancashire), and three daughters, Bertha, Agnes (wife of Richard de Montfitchet), and ___. He had livery of his lands in 1190-91. Before the return of King Richard I from captivity to England, he supported the Justiciar against John, Count of Mortain, and, with the Earl of Chester, he besieged Nottingham Castle. He took part in the second Coronation of King Richard I, which was solemnized in Winchester Cathedral 17 April 1194. He was present at the Coronation of King John 27 May 1199. On 7 June 1199 the king restored and confirmed to him the third penny of Derby, and with his own hand girded him with the sword as an Earl. In 1213 he witnessed the king's surrender of the kingdom to Pope Innocent III. He was a witness to the last will of King John in 1216, and appointed one of its managers and disposers. He was present at the Coronation of King Henry III 28 October 1216. On 30 October following, the king granted him the Castles of Peak and Bolsover, Derbyshire, and, on 16 Jan. 1216/17, he was granted the manor of Melbourne, Derbyshire to hold until the king was 14 years of age. He assisted the Regent to raise the Siege of Lincoln Castle 20 May 1217, and, with his brother-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, he commanded the royal forces which razed Montsorel Castle. In June 1218 he went on Crusade. In 1225 he witnessed the third great charter of King Henry III. He was heir c.1226/7 to his younger brother, Robert de Ferrers. He accompanied the king in the expedition to Brittany and Poitou in 1230. In 1230 the king pardoned him up to 100 marks of the £170 which were exacted from him for the debts of his uncle, Robert de Ferrers. He was present at the Council of London Feb. 1231/2. His wife, Agnes, was co-heiress in 1232 to her brother, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, by which she inherited the Castle and manor of Chartley, Staffordshire, the Castle and vill of West Derby, Lancashire, and the borough of Liverpool, Lancashire, together with all the lands which Earl Ranulph had held between Ribble and Mersey (including the fiefs of Manchester, Widnes, Warrington, Tottington and Croston, Makerfield and Sefton, Lancashire), and the vills of Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire and Navenby, Lincolnshire. In 1236 he and his wife, Agnes, quitclaimed the advowson of the church of Bolton, Lancashire to Herbert, Prior of Mattersey. He presented to the churches of Brington, Northamptonshire, 1237, and Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, 1238. In 1241 Stephen de Meverel sued William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, and Agnes his wife regarding the advowson of Gatton, Staffordshire; William and Agnes appeared by attorney, and stated that the advowson formed part of the inheritance of Agnes, which fell to her by the death of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, and that they could not answer without their co-parceners. In 1244 he was summoned for military service against the Scots. At an unknown date, he granted 24 acres in his Forest of Needwood to Robert son of Thomas of the Cross. At an unknown date, he granted 19 acres in the manor of Horecross (in Yoxall), Staffordshire to Bartholomew Andwinckle. At an unknown date, he granted all the town of Horecross (in Yoxall), Staffordshire to Hugh Melbourn. SIR WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Earl of Derby, died testate 22 Sept. 1247. His widow, Agnes, died testate 2 Nov. 1247.
  Shaw Hist. & Antiqs. of Steordshire 1(1798): 39 (Ferrers ped.), 93 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; charter names his wife, Agnes), 103 (three charters of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, one of which is witnessed by his brother, Robert). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 807 (charter of Robert de Ferrers, son of William, Earl of Ferrers; charter witnessed by William de Ferrers, son of William, Earl of Ferrers). Coll. Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Baines Hist. of the Commerce & Town of Liverpool 1 (1852): 97-133. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 7 (1852): 220-232. Giles Matthew Paris's English Hist. 2 (1853): 251 (sub 1247: "In this year certain nobles died in England, amongst whom was William Earl Ferrers, a peaceable and good man, who died at a great age, about St. Catherine's day [25 November], after having suffered for a long time from gout. His marriage with his wife the Countess was solemnized by St. Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury. In the same month also died his wife M, countess of Ferrers, of the same age and of equal fame and goodness. The said earl therefore was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son and heir William, a good and discrete man, but who was miserably afflicted with the same disease as his father."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 285 (Annals of Burton sub 1247: "Isto anno obiit Wilelinus de Ferrariis, nobilis comes Derbeiae, x. kal. Octobris. Agnes comitissa, uxor ejus, completa quarentena sua, decessit quarto non. Novembris."). Shirley Royal & Other Historical Letters illus. of the Reign of King Henry III 2 (Rolls Ser. 27) (1866): 14 (letter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby). Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXIII-XXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 100-107. Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester 1 (1882): 26-33. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 4) (1883): 90-102. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 280-283. Birch Catalogue of Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 280 (seal of William de Ferrers, Earl of Ferrers dated 1191-1199 - To the right. In armour: hauberk, surcoat, sword, long convex shield. Horse galloping; Another undated seal. Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk, surcoat, flat-topped helmet, sword, shield of arms: vaire, FERRERS; Reverse. Small oval counterseal. With mark of the handle. Impression of an antique oval intaglio gem. A lion devouring a stag). Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem 1 (1894): 304. Norris Baddesly Clinton, its Manor, Church & Hall (1897): 101-110. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 72, 102. Fatter Final Concords of Lancaster 1 (Lancs. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 39) (1899): 74-93,93-118,216-219. Fatter Lancashire Inquests, Extents & Feudal Aids 1 (Lanc. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 48) (1903): 120,146. Parker Cal. of Lancashire Assize Rolls 1 (Lancs. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 47) (1904): 18, 40, 55, 66. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 531-532. Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 4-9. C.P. 3 (1913): 169, footnote a (sub Chester); 4 (1916): 194-196 (sub Derby(); 5 (1926): 320 (chart). Grosseteste Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 169, 178, 184-185, 190, 402. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). Farnham Leicestershire Medieval Peds. (1925): 11 (ped. of Earls of Chester). Rpt. on the MSS of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 83. Gibbs Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 58) (1939): 37- 39. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 32-33, 148-149. Hockey Beaulieu Cartulary (Southampton Recs. Ser. 17) (1974): 11-12, 44-45. C.R.R. 16 (1979): 69. Ellis Cat. Seals in the PRO. 2 (1981): 41 (seal of William de Ferrer; Earl of Derby - On horseback, riding to right. He wears a long coat of mail and a flat-topped helmet with nasal, and holds a drawn sword and a shield. Legend: ...DEF...R...). Nottingham Medieval Studies 44 (2000): 69-81. Online resource: http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_029.html. Lancashire Rec. Office: Clifton of Lytham, DDCL 250 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Lancashire Rec. Office: Molyneux, Earls of Sefton, DDM 19/1 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby), DDM 19/2 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby); DDM 19/3 (charter of Agnes de Ferrers, Countess of Derby), DDM 19/4 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
  Children of Agnes of Chester, by William de Ferrers, Knt.:
  i. WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby [see next].
  ii. BERTHA DE FERRERS, married (1st) THOMAS DE FURNIVAL, of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, and Sheffield, Yorkshire [see FURNIVAL 8], (2nd) RALPH LE BIGOD, Knt., of Settrington, Yorkshire [see ASKE 8].
  iii. ___ DE FERRERS, married JOHN DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland [see CLIFFORD 7].”
  
  === M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 40 ===
  M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 40
  
  === Royal Ancestry Biography ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “AGNES OF CHESTER, married in 1192 WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt, 4th Earl of Derby, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1194, Sheriff of Lancashire, 1223-8, son and heir of William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, by Sibyl, daughter of William de Briouze (or Brewes). They had five sons, William, Knt. [5th Earl of Derby], Thomas, Knt, Hugh, Knt., Robert, and Ranulph (parson of St. Michael's on the Wyre, Lancashire), and three daughters, Bertha, Agnes (wife of Richard de Montfitchet), and ___. He had livery of his lands in 1190-91. Before the return of King Richard I from captivity to England, he supported the Justiciar against John, Count of Mortain, and, with the Earl of Chester, he besieged Nottingham Castle. He took part in the second Coronation of King Richard I, which was solemnized in Winchester Cathedral 17 April 1194. He was present at the Coronation of King John 27 May 1199. On 7 June 1199 the king restored and confirmed to him the third penny of Derby, and with his own hand girded him with the sword as an Earl. In 1213 he witnessed the king's surrender of the kingdom to Pope Innocent III. He was a witness to the last will of King John in 1216, and appointed one of its managers and disposers. He was present at the Coronation of King Henry III 28 October 1216. On 30 October following, the king granted him the Castles of Peak and Bolsover, Derbyshire, and, on 16 Jan. 1216/17, he was granted the manor of Melbourne, Derbyshire to hold until the king was 14 years of age. He assisted the Regent to raise the Siege of Lincoln Castle 20 May 1217, and, with his brother-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, he commanded the royal forces which razed Montsorel Castle. In June 1218 he went on Crusade. In 1225 he witnessed the third great charter of King Henry III. He was heir c.1226/7 to his younger brother, Robert de Ferrers. He accompanied the king in the expedition to Brittany and Poitou in 1230. In 1230 the king pardoned him up to 100 marks of the £170 which were exacted from him for the debts of his uncle, Robert de Ferrers. He was present at the Council of London Feb. 1231/2. His wife, Agnes, was co-heiress in 1232 to her brother, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, by which she inherited the Castle and manor of Chartley, Staffordshire, the Castle and vill of West Derby, Lancashire, and the borough of Liverpool, Lancashire, together with all the lands which Earl Ranulph had held between Ribble and Mersey (including the fiefs of Manchester, Widnes, Warrington, Tottington and Croston, Makerfield and Sefton, Lancashire), and the vills of Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire and Navenby, Lincolnshire. In 1236 he and his wife, Agnes, quitclaimed the advowson of the church of Bolton, Lancashire to Herbert, Prior of Mattersey. He presented to the churches of Brington, Northamptonshire, 1237, and Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, 1238. In 1241 Stephen de Meverel sued William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, and Agnes his wife regarding the advowson of Gatton, Staffordshire; William and Agnes appeared by attorney, and stated that the advowson formed part of the inheritance of Agnes, which fell to her by the death of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, and that they could not answer without their co-parceners. In 1244 he was summoned for military service against the Scots. At an unknown date, he granted 24 acres in his Forest of Needwood to Robert son of Thomas of the Cross. At an unknown date, he granted 19 acres in the manor of Horecross (in Yoxall), Staffordshire to Bartholomew Andwinckle. At an unknown date, he granted all the town of Horecross (in Yoxall), Staffordshire to Hugh Melbourn. SIR WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Earl of Derby, died testate 22 Sept. 1247. His widow, Agnes, died testate 2 Nov. 1247.
  Shaw Hist. & Antiqs. of Steordshire 1(1798): 39 (Ferrers ped.), 93 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; charter names his wife, Agnes), 103 (three charters of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, one of which is witnessed by his brother, Robert). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 807 (charter of Robert de Ferrers, son of William, Earl of Ferrers; charter witnessed by William de Ferrers, son of William, Earl of Ferrers). Coll. Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Baines Hist. of the Commerce & Town of Liverpool 1 (1852): 97-133. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 7 (1852): 220-232. Giles Matthew Paris's English Hist. 2 (1853): 251 (sub 1247: "In this year certain nobles died in England, amongst whom was William Earl Ferrers, a peaceable and good man, who died at a great age, about St. Catherine's day [25 November], after having suffered for a long time from gout. His marriage with his wife the Countess was solemnized by St. Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury. In the same month also died his wife M, countess of Ferrers, of the same age and of equal fame and goodness. The said earl therefore was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son and heir William, a good and discrete man, but who was miserably afflicted with the same disease as his father."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 285 (Annals of Burton sub 1247: "Isto anno obiit Wilelinus de Ferrariis, nobilis comes Derbeiae, x. kal. Octobris. Agnes comitissa, uxor ejus, completa quarentena sua, decessit quarto non. Novembris."). Shirley Royal & Other Historical Letters illus. of the Reign of King Henry III 2 (Rolls Ser. 27) (1866): 14 (letter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby). Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXIII-XXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 100-107. Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester 1 (1882): 26-33. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 4) (1883): 90-102. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 280-283. Birch Catalogue of Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 280 (seal of William de Ferrers, Earl of Ferrers dated 1191-1199 - To the right. In armour: hauberk, surcoat, sword, long convex shield. Horse galloping; Another undated seal. Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk, surcoat, flat-topped helmet, sword, shield of arms: vaire, FERRERS; Reverse. Small oval counterseal. With mark of the handle. Impression of an antique oval intaglio gem. A lion devouring a stag). Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem 1 (1894): 304. Norris Baddesly Clinton, its Manor, Church & Hall (1897): 101-110. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 72, 102. Fatter Final Concords of Lancaster 1 (Lancs. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 39) (1899): 74-93,93-118,216-219. Fatter Lancashire Inquests, Extents & Feudal Aids 1 (Lanc. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 48) (1903): 120,146. Parker Cal. of Lancashire Assize Rolls 1 (Lancs. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 47) (1904): 18, 40, 55, 66. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 531-532. Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 4-9. C.P. 3 (1913): 169, footnote a (sub Chester); 4 (1916): 194-196 (sub Derby(); 5 (1926): 320 (chart). Grosseteste Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 169, 178, 184-185, 190, 402. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). Farnham Leicestershire Medieval Peds. (1925): 11 (ped. of Earls of Chester). Rpt. on the MSS of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 83. Gibbs Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 58) (1939): 37- 39. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 32-33, 148-149. Hockey Beaulieu Cartulary (Southampton Recs. Ser. 17) (1974): 11-12, 44-45. C.R.R. 16 (1979): 69. Ellis Cat. Seals in the PRO. 2 (1981): 41 (seal of William de Ferrer; Earl of Derby - On horseback, riding to right. He wears a long coat of mail and a flat-topped helmet with nasal, and holds a drawn sword and a shield. Legend: ...DEF...R...). Nottingham Medieval Studies 44 (2000): 69-81. Online resource: http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_029.html. Lancashire Rec. Office: Clifton of Lytham, DDCL 250 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Lancashire Rec. Office: Molyneux, Earls of Sefton, DDM 19/1 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby), DDM 19/2 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby); DDM 19/3 (charter of Agnes de Ferrers, Countess of Derby), DDM 19/4 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
  Children of Agnes of Chester, by William de Ferrers, Knt.:
  i. WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby [see next].
  ii. BERTHA DE FERRERS, married (1st) THOMAS DE FURNIVAL, of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, and Sheffield, Yorkshire [see FURNIVAL 8], (2nd) RALPH LE BIGOD, Knt., of Settrington, Yorkshire [see ASKE 8].
  iii. ___ DE FERRERS, married JOHN DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland [see CLIFFORD 7].”

1. Katherine de Ferrers, b. 1235 in Boswithgreet, , Cornwall, England     d. 1275 in Cornwall, England

1. Title: Wikipedia
   Author: William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Ferrers,_4th_Earl_of_Derby;
   Note: Ranulph de Ferrers, parson of St. Michael’s on the Wyre, Lancashire.