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Birth:          ABT 1036 Ferrieres-St-Hilaire, Normandy
Death:          ABT 1101 Lechlade, Faringdon, Gloucestershire, England
Burial:         Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England

Notes
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Henry de Ferrieres, Sire de Ferrières and Chambrais in Normandy (d), son of Walkelin 
de Ferrieres (e). He was a Domesday Commissioner, and held at the date of the 
Survey some 210 lordships or manors, more than half of which were in co. Derby, but 
the caput of his honour was at Tutbury, then in the district of Burton-on-Trent, co. 
Stafford. Near Tutbury he founded a priory for benedictine monks. He married Bertha. 
He was buried at Tutbury. [Complete Peerage IV:190-1, (transcribed by Dave 
Utzinger)]

(d) Ferrieres and Chambrais (now Broglie), on the Charantonne, in the chief iron-
producing district of Normandy. The workers of iron, in this province, were under the 
jurisdiction of six barons 'fossiers'; these were the barons of Ferrieres, La Ferte 
Fresnel, and Chaumont, and the abbots of Lyre, St. Wandrille, and St. Evroul. The 
barons of Ferrieres were style 'premiers barons fossiers', which shows that the forges 
they had charge of were esteemed the principal, or most ancient. The popular story 
that Henry de Ferrieres "received his surname from holding the office of master of the 
farriers in the invading army" is therefore only the truth--a little distorted. Whether the 
English branch of the family in the twelth century bore, as the heralds say they did, 
Sable, six horse-shoes Argent (or the same with the tinctures reversed), or whether 
they bore any arms at all, is another question.

(e) This Walkelin was slain in the civil wars which distracted Normandy during the 
minority of Duke William.

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Henry Ferrers, son of Walchelin, assumed the name from Ferriers, a small town of 
Gastinois, in France, otherwise called Ferrieres, from the iron mines with which that 
country abounded, and, in allusion to the circumstance, he bore for his arms "six 
horses' shoes," either from the similitude of his cognomen to the French Ferrier, or 
because the seigneurie produced iron, so essential to the soldier and cavalier in those 
rude times when war was esteemed the chief business of life, and the adroit 
management of the steed, even amongst the nobility, the first of accomplishments. 
Henry de Ferrers came into England with the Conqueror and obtained a grant of 
Tutbury Castle, in the county of Stafford. According to Stapleton, he was ancestor of 
the Oakham house of Ferrers, whose memory is preserved by the horseshoes hanging 
in the hall of their castle. He m. Bertha -----, and had issue, Robert, his heir; 
Eugenulph, who d. s. p.; and Walkelin, of Radbourne. [John Burke, Commoners of 
Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. III, R. Bentley, London, 1834-1838, p. 127, Ferrers, of 
Baddesley Clinton]

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The first of this eminent family that settled in England was Henry de Feriers, son of 
Walcheline de Feriers, a Norman, who obtained from William the Conqueror a grant of 
Tutbury Castle, co. Stafford, with extensive possessions in other shires, of which 114 
manors were in Derbyshire. This person must have been of considerable rank, not only 
from these enormous grants, but from the circumstances of his being one of the 
commissioners appointed by the Conqueror to make the great survey of the kingdom. 
He was the founder of the Cluniac priory at Tutbury which he liberally endowed. By 
Berta his wife he had issue, Egenulph, d. v. p.; William, d. v. p.; Robert, his 
successor; Gundred; and Emmeline. [Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, 
Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 196, Ferrers, Earls of Derby]

Parents
DE FERRERS Walcheline (ABT 1010 - BEF 1048)
----- ----- ()

Siblings
DE FERRERS Henry (ABT 1036 - ABT 1101)
DE FERRERS Gundreda (ABT 1040 - )

Marriage To DE L'AIGLE Bertha (ABT 1044 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE L'AIGLE Engenulf (Engenulph) (ABT 1010 - 14 Oct 1066)
____ Richeride (Richvaride) (ABT 1010 - )

Children by DE L'AIGLE Bertha ABT 1044 - 
DE FERRERS Amice (ABT 1063 - )
OF RADBOURNE Walcheline (1086 - AFT 1125)

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