Robert engaged in serious conflicts with the future Edward I and with Simon de Montfort, and eventually lost most of his lands. Maddicott notes that his whole career was marked by “a violent waywardness of character.”
Events
Date of Birth: about 1239.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Maddicott (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (4:198; 5:pedigree chart after p. 320).
Date of Death: 1279.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Maddicott (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (4:202; 5:pedigree chart after p. 320).
Place of Burial: probably the Augustinian priory of St Thomas, Stafford.
The date is given by Maddicott (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (4:202; 5:pedigree chart after p. 320).
Relationships
Father: William de Ferrers, fifth earl of Derby.
This relationship is given by Maddicott (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (4:198; 5:pedigree chart after p. 320).
Mother: Margaret de Quency.
This relationship is given by Maddicott (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (4:198; 5:pedigree chart after p. 320).
Spouse: Marie de Lusignan. Married 1249 at Westminster.
This relationship is given by Maddicott (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (4:201; 5:pedigree chart after p. 320).
Spouse: Eleanor de Bohun. Married 26 June 1269.
This relationship is given by Maddicott (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (4:202; 5:pedigree chart after p. 320).
Children (by Eleanor):
(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 the Complete Peerage (5: pedigree chart after p. 320) and from Maddicott).
Eleanor married Sir Robert fitz Walter of Woodham.
Sir John de Ferrers (20 June 1271 - August 1312) of Southoe and Keyston, married Hawise de Muscegros.
Thomas de Ferrers.
References
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).
Maddicott, J.R, ‘Ferrers, Robert de, sixth earl of Derby (c.1239–1279)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Sanders, Ivor John. English Baronies (Oxford: 1960).