Agnes of Chester

Lady of Chartley and Bugbrooke

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 2 November 1247.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (4:196).

Relationships

Father: Hugh of Cyfeiliog, fifth earl of Chester.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (4:196; 5:pedigree chart after p. 320) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 228).

Mother: Bertrade, daughter of Simon, count of Évreux.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (4:196) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 228).

Spouse: William de Ferrers, fourth earl of Derby. Married in 1192.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (4:196; 5:pedigree chart after p. 320), by Alexander (p. 2), and by Keats-Rohan (p. 228).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

William de Ferrers (died 29 March 1254), fifth earl of Derby, married (1) Sibyl Marshal; married (2) Margaret de Quency.

Thomas Ferrers of Chartley.

Hugh Ferrers of Bugbrooke married a daughter of Roger de Mohaut.

Agnes married John de Vespont, lord of Westmorland.

References

Alexander, James W. Ranulf of Chester: A Relic of the Conquest (The University of Georgia Press, 1983).

Cawley, Charles. “WILLIAM de Ferrers” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Tout, T.F. “Hugh, fifth earl of Chester (1147-1181)”, rev. Thomas K. Keefe in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).