Walchelin de Ferrers I

• Preferred Name: Walchelin de Ferrers I^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Alternate Name: Walchelinus I
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: antes 28 de outubro de 1190 in Seige of Acre, Jerusalem, Palestine at LATI: N1.7833 LONG: E5.2333
  
• Death: 1201 in Akko, Northern District, Israel at LATI: N2.9167 LONG: E5.0667
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: with note: Description: Lord of Oakham
  
• FSID: G8SM-7HX
  
• Birth: 1136 in Derby, Derbyshire, Inglaterra at LATI: N2.9235 LONG: E1.477
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 3rd Earl of Derby
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Walchelin de Ferrieres (or Walkelin de Ferrers) (died 1201) (Latinised to de Ferrariis, literally "from the smiths") was an Anglo-Norman baron and principal captain of King Richard I of England.
  
  «b»Origins«/b»
  The de Ferriers family is believed to have originated at the manor of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire in the southern marches of the Duchy of Normandy and had previously protected the duchy from the hostility of the Counts of Maine and Anjou. With the union of the domains of Anjou and Normandy in 1144, and the investment of Geoffrey V Plantagenet as Duke of Normandy, most of this land lost its strategic importance.
  
  Walchelin was the son of Henry de Ferrieres, a nephew of Robert de Ferrers, 1st Earl of Derby and a son of either Enguenulf or William. Like his father, Walchelin held the castles of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire and Chambray for the service of 5 knights. He held lands equating to 42 3/4 Knight's fees. In England, Walchelin held the manors of Oakham in Rutland and Lechlade in Gloucestershire. He is known to have held these lands since at least 1172.
  
  The cognizance or proto-heraldic device of the family was a horse-shoe, a play on the Latin word ferrarius meaning a "worker in iron" (ferrum) thus a black-smith or farrier. Thus originated the custom, still current today, of the affixing of ceremonial horse-shoes on the walls of the great hall of Oakham Castle to commemorate the visit of a peer or royal. After the start of the age of heraldry (circa 1200-1215), branches of the Ferrers family adopted horse-shoes as charges in their coats of arms.
  
  «b»Career«/b»
  During the Third Crusade, he and his son and heir, Henry, served in the force of Richard I of England. A John de Ferrieres, believed to be a nephew, was also present. Walchelin had stayed with the King in Sicily. It is apparent that Walchelin was one of the king's counselors. He and his knights arrived at Saint-Jean d'Acre sometime in April or June 1191. Some months previously, William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, his second cousin, had been killed at the Siege of Acre.
  
  After the conclusion of the siege, King Richard and Hugh III of Burgundy marched their forces south to the city of Jaffa. Along the route, several skirmishes broke out between the crusaders and the Saracen army marching in parallel under Saladin. On 7 September 1191, the great battle of Arsuf was fought. Richard had made Walchelin a commander of one of the elite bodies of knights, according to the chronicle attributed to Geoffrey de Vinsauf.
  
  Later, in 1194, Richard was imprisoned for ransom in Germany. Walchelin brought the treasure of Normandy to Speyer and gave himself as a hostage (along with many others) to the Western Emperor Henry VI. He was freed from captivity in about 1197. His sons Henry and Hugh managed his estates during the years he spent in prison. Sometime prior to his death, the younger son, Hugh was granted lordship of the manor of Lechlade.
  
  «b»Death & succession«/b»
  Walchelin died in 1201 and was succeeded by his son, Henry. Henry sided with King John of England over King Philip II of France until December 1203 when John left Normandy, never to return. At this point, Henry did homage to King Philip for his Norman lands. Hugh had left England and the care of Lechlade and Oakham went to his sister, Isabella, who was married to Roger de Mortimer of Wigmore. After her death, the land escheated to the crown as Terra Normanorum.
  
  === Walchelin de Ferrers, of Oakham and Lech ===
  Walchelin de Ferrers, of Oakham and Lechelade and Ferrieres
  Also Known As:
  "Walkelin", "de Ferrers"
  Birthdate:
  estimated between 1105 and 1155
  Death:
  1201
  Immediate Family:
  Son of Henry de Ferrers, Lord of Oakham
  Husband of Alice de Lechelade, Heiress of Manor of Lechelade
  Father of Hugh de Ferrieres, Lord of Lechlade / 6th Baron of Burford; Lady Isabella de Ferrieres, of Oakham, Heiress of Manor of Lechelade; Walchelin de Ferrieres, Seigneur de Ferrieres-St.-Hilaire, Lord Oakham in Rutland and Henry de Ferrieres, Seigneur de Chambrais
  
  === Walchellin de Ferriers ===
  Walchelin era hijo de Henry de Ferrieres, sobrino de Robert de Ferrers, primer conde de Derby e hijo de Enguenulf o William. Al igual que su padre, Walchelin ocupó los castillos de Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire y Chambray al servicio de 5 caballeros. Poseía tierras equivalentes a 42 3/4 honorarios de caballero . En Inglaterra, Walchelin ocupó los señoríos de Oakham en Rutland y Lechlade en Gloucestershire . Se sabe que ha ocupado estas tierras desde al menos 1172. El conocimiento o dispositivo proto-heráldico de la familia era una herradura, un juego de la palabra latina ferrarius que significa "trabajador del hierro" ( ferrum ), por lo tanto, un herrero o herrador . Así se originó la costumbre, aún hoy vigente, de colocar herraduras ceremoniales en las paredes del gran salón del castillo de Oakham para conmemorar la visita de un par o real. Tras el inicio de la era de la heráldica (hacia 1200-1215), ramas de la familia Ferrers adoptaron las herraduras como carga en sus escudos. Walchelin murió en 1201 y fue sucedido por su hijo, Enrique. Enrique se puso del lado del rey Juan de Inglaterra sobre el rey Felipe II de Francia hasta diciembre de 1203, cuando Juan abandonó Normandía para no volver jamás. En este punto, Enrique rindió homenaje al rey Felipe por sus tierras normandas. Hugh había dejado Inglaterra y el cuidado de Lechlade y Oakham pasó a manos de su hermana, Isabella, que estaba casada con Roger de Mortimer de Wigmore . Después de su muerte, la tierra pasó a manos de la corona como Terra Normanorum

• m. BEF 1166 in England, United Kingdom

1. Isabella De lechelade, b. 1172 in England     d. 1252 in England
2. Isabel de Ferrers, b. 21 FEB 1166 in Oakham, Rutland, England     d. 29 APR 1252 in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England

1. Title: Wikitree - Walchelin de Ferriers
   Author: Sources ↑ Dictionnaire historique de toutes les communes du département de l'Eure, par m. Charpillon avec la collaboration de l'abbé Caresme, Volume 2, p 168 [1] ↑ Calendar of documents preserved in France, illustrative of the history of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol.1. A.D. 918-1206, p 137 [2] ↑ Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae Sub Regibus Angliae, p 124 [3] ↑ Calendar of documents preserved in France, illustrative of the history of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol.1. A.D. 918-1206, p 144-5 [4] ↑ Calendar of documents preserved in France, illustrative of the history of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol.1. A.D. 918-1206, p 195 [5] ↑ The loss of Normandy (1189-1204), studies in the history of the Angevin Empire, pg 494-495 [6] ↑ The Chronicle of the Third Crusade: The Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, ch 42 [7] ↑ Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries and Antiquarian Gleaner: Vol 2, p 191 [8] ↑ "General introduction," in A History of the County of Rutland: Volume 2, ed
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ferrers-429;
   Note: Biography "Between 1136 and 1145, Henry II of Ferrières gave the monks of Lyre, a hotel in Chambrais, named after Broglie, of which he was lord, and was made prisoner in 1136, before Exmes, by William Talvas." [1] 1156-1157, mentioned in a charter of Henry II, addressed generally. [2] 1168 "In the Black Book of the Exchequer is this entry, sub tit. "Norhamte scire." Hocham Walkelinus de Ferrariis defendit per mum militem et dimidium, being a return made preparatory to the levy of the scutage, 14 Hen. II. 1168, to marry the daughter of the King to the Duke of Saxony." [3] 20 Jan 1174, witness to an agreement between Joan abbess of Caen and Robert son of Richard de Scrotonia. [4] 17 Apr 1197, witness to a charter of Richard I. reciting and confirming the charters of Richard in favour of the priory of Plessis, and adding the churches of Cambes, St. Clement, Montanger, and Bucy. [5] "The Norman family of Ferrieres, which must be distinguished from the English family which had the earldom of Derby, had its seats at Ferrieres-St. Hilaire and Chambrais (Broglie), both upon the river Charentonne in the department of Eure. In 1172Walchelin of Ferrieres owed the service of 5 knights and had 42¾ in his service (R.B., ii, 630). He was with Richard during his captivity in January 1194, at Speyer (Round, Calendar, p. 469), having been sent with treasure from Normandy (Rot. Scacc. i, 249). He died in 1201 and was succeeded by his son Henry {Rot. de Fin., 178; Stapleton II, lxix). Henry joined Philip (C.N., no. 124; H. de F., 684e, 710c). The English lands of this house included the manors of Oakham in Rutland and of Lechlade in Gloucestershire. Walchelin of Ferrieres had given the latter to his other son Hugh. His daughter, Isabella, wife of Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, was after 1204 allowed a life interest in both manors (Testa, 39, 77; Rot. Claus., i, 390 b; Stapleton II, cxxii-v, and the authorities there quoted). After her death they escheated to the crown as terrae Normannoriim."[6] The Third Crusade "A great number of Normans also came: Walkelin de Ferrers, ..." [7] Notes Many stories of Walkelin and William have been conflated, including accounts of the Crusade. Walkelin survives the Crusade, as noted by a number of charters and fines. [8] The Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi mentions in a couple of places, including Acre deaths, the "comes de Ferrariis". In a few other places, including Normans joining the expedition, distinguishing himself, and being well liked by Richard I, it mentions "Walchelinus de Ferrariis". It does not call "Walchelinus" the "comes de Ferrariis". Some accounts now have Walkelin dying at Acre, or have William being a favourite of Richard I, making these passages refer to one person. Property Barony of Oakham "The formation of the barony of Oakham was the second important event of Norman times. To Walchelin de Ferrers, who certainly held the barony from 1166–1199, the county owes its most remarkable architectural feature in the Hall of Oakham Castle. Whether the story that he went on the Second Crusade and was present at the siege of Acre is true or not, it seems evident that he must have had at some time a close personal connection with Oakham. As a member of a younger branch of the Ferrers family, he may have hoped to found a powerful baronial house in Rutland, but when Normandy was lost his sons severed their connection with England, and after the death of his daughter, Isabel de Mortimer, Oakham became for three centuries a royal appanage. (fn. 6)" [9] "Before 1130 Oakham was held by the Ferrers family as sub-tenants of the Earls of Warwick. Henry son of Walchelin de Ferrers (Ferrières), the Domesday commissioner, had a son Robert who in 1138 was created Earl of Derby and died in 1139; (fn. 96) another son William, who died before 1131, (fn. 97) was possibly the first sub-tenant of Oakham, as his sons seem to have successively inherited it. Henry, the eldest of these sons, paid danegeld in Rutland, probably for Oakham, in 1130 and died before 1156–7. (fn. 98) Hugh, another son, gave Brooke in the soke of Oakham to the canons of Kenilworth with the consent of his brother William. Henry was probably dead at the date of the gift, as Hugh obtained confirmation of the grant from his nephew Walchelin, son of Henry, who was apparently under age and in the custody of [Robert] de Newburgh, his overlord, who also assented to the gift. (fn. 99) Walchelin was pardoned a debt to the Crown in 1161. (fn. 100) He was holding Oakham in 1166 and in the same year answered for the barony held by the service due from 1½ knight's fees, (fn. 101) which he was still holding in 1196. (fn. 102) He accompanied Richard I on the Crusades and visited him while in captivity. He died in 1201, leaving two sons, Henry and Hugh, and two daughters, Isabel and Margaret. (fn. 103) Oakham passed to Henry, the elder son, who forfeited his English lands on the loss of Normandy in 1204. (fn. 104) Hugh, to whom his father had given the manors of Lechlade and Longbridge, died in the same year, possibly before his brother's forfeiture, without issue, and these manors passed to Isabel, his eldest sister, the wife of Roger de Mortimer. (fn. 105) Oakham, however, remained in the king's hands until 1207, when it was granted to Isabel and Mortimer for her life with reversion to the Crown. (fn. 106) After the death of Roger de Mortimer in 1215, Isabel married Peter Fitz Herbert. (fn. 107) By her first husband she had a son* Hugh de Mortimer of Wigmore, who died without issue in 1227. Isabel continued to hold Oakham until her death in 1252, when, in accordance with the terms of the grant from King John, it reverted to the Crown. (fn. 108)" [10] step-son, son of her cousin Millicent "The Great Hall of Oakham Castle (a fortified manor) is one of the finest examples of domestic Norman architecture in England. It was built 1180's, in the reign of Henry II, for Walchelin de Ferriers, Lord of the Manor of Oakham. It is one of the oldest surviving aisled stone halls in the country. The Hall has been a court for more than 800 years and is still occasionally used as a Crown court today. Oakham Castle is known for its collection of massive horseshoes, given to the Lord of the Manor by royalty and peers of the realm on their visit to Oakham."[11][12] Manor of Langham "LANGHAM may be identified as one of the five unnamed berewicks which were attached to Oakham in 1086. (fn. 3) It was held by the lords of Oakham Castle (q.v.). (fn. 4)" "In the reign of Henry II Walchelin de Ferrers granted the tithes of the mills of Langham to the Priory of Brooke. (fn. 64)" [13] "Walkelinus de Ferrariis, who was lord of Okeham, Langham, and Brook, in the time of King Henry the Second, and seems to be the first founder of this house, gave to God and the church of St. Mary of Brook, and the canons there in pure and perpetual alms, the homage and service of Jordanus de Saxonis, and whatsoever right he had in him and his tenement; and also the tithes of the profits arising from the fair of Okeham, held at the feast of the decollation of St. John Baptist, and of the mills of the said town of Okeham, and of Langham. Witnesses to which deed, were Simon the priest of Okeham, Gilbert his brother, Hugh de Ferrariis, William de Frenes, Gelfry de Carento, master John the physician, &c. This deed was afterwards confirmed by Henry de Ferrariis, son of Walkeline, and after that by Isabel de Mortuomari, sister and heir of the said Henry de Ferrariis." [14]
   
2. Title: Medieval Lands Project
   Author: Red Book Exchequer, Part II, Infeudationes militum…duci Normanniæ…1172, p. 630. La Roque (1662), Vol. I, pp. 69, 199. Delisle & Passy (1864), Tome II, p. 82, no source citation. CP IV 191 footnote c.
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/enguntdk.htm#AmiciaFerrersMNigelAlbiniCainhoe;
   
3. Title: Walkelin de Ferriers, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q291-4716 : 25 May 2022), Walkelin de Ferriers, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 157566386, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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4. Title: Wikipedia - Walchelin de Ferriers
   Author: For example the Ferrers family of Bere Ferrers in Devon, see [1]
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walchelin_de_Ferriers;
   Note: Walchelin de Ferrieres (or Walkelin de Ferrers) (died 1201) (Latinised to de Ferrariis, literally "from the smiths") was an Anglo-Norman baron and principal captain of King Richard I of England. Origins The de Ferriers family is believed to have originated at the manor of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire in the southern marches of the Duchy of Normandy and had previously protected the duchy from the hostility of the Counts of Maine and Anjou. With the union of the domains of Anjou and Normandy in 1144, and the investment of Geoffrey V Plantagenet as Duke of Normandy, most of this land lost its strategic importance. Walchelin was the son of Henry de Ferrieres, a nephew of Robert de Ferrers, 1st Earl of Derby and a son of either Enguenulf or William. Like his father, Walchelin held the castles of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire and Chambray for the service of 5 knights. He held lands equating to 42 3/4 Knight's fees. In England, Walchelin held the manors of Oakham in Rutland and Lechlade in Gloucestershire. He is known to have held these lands since at least 1172. Ceremonial horse-shoes on the walls of Oakham Castle in honour of the de Ferrers family The cognizance or proto-heraldic device of the family was a horse-shoe, a play on the Latin word ferrarius meaning a "worker in iron" (ferrum) thus a black-smith or farrier. Thus originated the custom, still current today, of the affixing of ceremonial horse-shoes on the walls of the great hall of Oakham Castle to commemorate the visit of a peer or royal. After the start of the age of heraldry (circa 1200-1215), branches of the Ferrers family adopted horse-shoes as charges in their coats of arms.[1] Career During the Third Crusade, he and his son and heir, Henry, served in the force of Richard I of England. A John de Ferrieres, believed to be a nephew, was also present. Walchelin had stayed with the King in Sicily. It is apparent that Walchelin was one of the king's counselors. He and his knights arrived at Saint-Jean d'Acre sometime in April or June 1191. Some months previously, William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, his second cousin, had been killed at the Siege of Acre. After the conclusion of the siege, King Richard and Hugh III of Burgundy marched their forces south to the city of Jaffa. Along the route, several skirmishes broke out between the crusaders and the Saracen army marching in parallel under Saladin. On 7 September 1191, the great battle of Arsuf was fought. Richard had made Walchelin a commander of one of the elite bodies of knights, according to the chronicle attributed to Geoffrey de Vinsauf. Later, in 1194, Richard was imprisoned for ransom in Germany. Walchelin brought the treasure of Normandy to Speyer and gave himself as a hostage (along with many others) to the Western Emperor Henry VI. He was freed from captivity in about 1197. His sons Henry and Hugh managed his estates during the years he spent in prison. Sometime prior to his death, the younger son, Hugh was granted lordship of the manor of Lechlade. Death and succession Walchelin died in 1201 and was succeeded by his son, Henry. Henry sided with King John of England over King Philip II of France until December 1203 when John left Normandy, never to return. At this point, Henry did homage to King Philip for his Norman lands. Hugh had left England and the care of Lechlade and Oakham went to his sister, Isabella, who was married to Roger de Mortimer of Wigmore. After her death, the land escheated to the crown as Terra Normanorum.
   
5. Title: Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
   Author: Citations [S1497] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. IV, p. 191, notes; Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 67. [S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 561-562. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 621. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 163-164.
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p200.htm#i5988;
   Note: Walkyn de Ferrers, Seigneur de Ferrieres-St.-Hilaire, Lord Oakham in Rutland1,2,3,4 Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 M, #5988, b. after 1136 Father Henri de Ferriers b. c 1110, d. a 1136 Mother Berthe Walkyn de Ferrers, Seigneur de Ferrieres-St.-Hilaire, Lord Oakham in Rutland married Alice Leche, daughter of Alan de Leche. Walkyn de Ferrers, Seigneur de Ferrieres-St.-Hilaire, Lord Oakham in Rutland was born after 1136 at of Oakham, Rutland, England. Family Alice Leche Children Isabel de Ferrers+2,3,4 b. c 1166, d. c 29 Apr 1252 Henry de Ferrers, Seigneur de Chambrais+ b. c 1177 Hugh de Ferrers b. c 1179, d. c 15 Aug 1204