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Birth:          ABT 1193 Derbyshire, England
Death:          28 Mar 1254 Evington, Leicestershire, England
Burial:         31 Mar 1254 

Notes
ancestry.com

if he indeed then married Margaret de Quincy to have last three kids, then he must 
have divorced Sibyl Marshall, or she died sooner than recorded. What a mess

prob b 1185

Most web sites, etc show the two marriages. Even crazier, there were several 
instances in which children of one marriage had the same first name as those of the 
second. E.g, Joan, Agnes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Ferrers,_5th_Earl_of_Derby
William III de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (1193 – 28 March 1254) was an English 
nobleman and head of a family which controlled a large part of Derbyshire including an 
area known as Duffield Frith.

He was born in Derbyshire, England, the son of William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby 
and Agnes of Chester, a daughter of Hugh of Kevelioc, Earl of Chester and Bertrada 
de Montfort. He succeeded to the title in 1247, on the death of his father and, after 
doing homage to King Henry III, he had livery of Chartley Castle and other lands of his 
mother's inheritance. He had accompanied King Henry to France in 1230 and sat in 
parliament in London in the same year.

He had many favours granted to him by the king, among them the right of free warren 
in Beaurepair (Belper), Makeney, Winleigh (Windley), Holbrooke, Siward (Southwood 
near Coxbench), Heyhegh (Heage) Cortelegh (Corkley, in the parish of Muggington), 
Ravensdale, Holland (Hulland), and many other places,[1]

Like his father, he suffered from gout from youth, and always traveled in a litter. He 
was accidentally thrown from his litter into water, while crossing a bridge, at St Neots, 
in Huntingdon and although he escaped immediate death, yet he never recovered from 
the effects of the accident. He died on 28 March 1254, after only seven years, and 
was succeeded by his son Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby.

William de Ferrers is buried at Merevale Abbey, Warwickshire, England. His widow 
died on 12 March 1280.

Family and children[edit]

William Ferrers married Sibyl Marshal, one of the daughters and co-heirs of William 
Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke. They had seven daughters:
1.Agnes Ferrers (died 11 May 1290), married William de Vesci.
2.Isabel Ferrers (died before 26 November 1260), married (1) Gilbert Basset, of 
Wycombe, and (2) Reginald de Mohun
3.Maud Ferrers (died 12 March 1298), married (1) Simon de Kyme, and (2) William de 
Vivonia (de Forz), and (3) Amaury IX of Rochechouart.
4.Sibyl Ferrers, married Sir Francis or Franco de Bohun, an ancestor of Daniel Boone. 
(it is her aunt Sibyl, sister of William, who married John de Vipont, Lord of Appleby)
5.Joan Ferrers (died 1267), married to: 1.John de Mohun;
2.Robert Aguillon

6.Agatha Ferrers (died May 1306), married Hugh Mortimer, of Chelmarsh.
7.Eleanor Ferrers (died 16 October 1274), married to: 1.William de Vaux;
2.Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester (m. abt. 1252);
3.Roger de Leybourne

In 1238, he married Margaret de Quincy (born 1218), daughter of Roger de Quincy, 
2nd Earl of Winchester and Helen of Galloway. Following the marriage of her 
stepdaughter Eleanor to her father about 1252, Margaret was both the stepmother and 
stepdaughter of William's daughter, Eleanor. The earl and Margaret had the following 
children:
1.Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby, his successor. He married: 1.Mary de Lusignan, 
daughter of Hugh XI of Lusignan, Count of Angoulême, and niece of King Henry III, by 
whom he had no issue;
2.Alianore de Bohun, daughter of Humphrey VI de Bohun and Eleanor de Braose, per 
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by 
Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines 57-30 & 68-29.

2.William Ferrers obtained, by gift of Margaret, his mother, the manor of Groby in 
Leicestershire, assuming the arms of the family of De Quincy. He married: 1.Anne 
Durward, daughter of Alan Durward; their son was William de Ferrers, 1st Baron 
Ferrers of Groby. (However Weis, "Ancestral Roots", 2006, line 58 no. 30, has Anne 
le Despencer, dau. of Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron Despencer, who was slain at the 
battle of Evesham)
2.Eleanor, daughter of Matthew Lovaine. following William Ferrers death, she married 
secondly William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas

3.Joan Ferrers (died 19 March 1309) married Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley.
4.Agnes Ferrers married Sir Robert de Muscegros (aka Robert de Musgrove), Lord of 
Kemerton, Boddington & Deerhurst.
5.Elizabeth Ferrers, married to: 1.William Marshal, 2nd Baron Marshal;
2.Prince Dafydd ap Gruffydd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Malet_(Magna_Carta_baron)


Parents
DE FERRERS William (ABT 1162 - 22 Sep 1247)
DE MESCHINES Agnes (ABT 1174 - 2 Nov 1247)

Siblings
DE FERRERS William (ABT 1193 - 28 Mar 1254)
DE FERRERS Bertha (ABT 1203 - AFT 1278)
DE FERRERS Sybil (25 Jul 1216 - 1247)

Marriage To MARSHALL Sibyl (ABT 1188 - 27 Apr 1245)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
MARSHALL William (ABT 1144 - 14 May 1219)
FITZGILBERT DE CLARE Isabel (1172 - 1220)

Children by MARSHALL Sibyl ABT 1188 - 27 Apr 1245
DE FERRERS Isabel (1208 - 1260)
DE FERRERS Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1223 - )
DE FERRERS Agnes (ABT 1224 - 11 May 1290)
DE FERRERS Joan (ABT 1233 - BEF Oct 1267)

Marriage To DE QUINCY Margaret (ABT 1218 - BEF 12 Mar 1284)
    m. 1238 

Notes

Parents
DE QUINCY Roger (ABT 1195 - 25 Apr 1264)
OF GALLOWAY Helen (Elena) (ABT 1202 - AFT 21 Nov 1245)

Children by DE QUINCY Margaret ABT 1218 - BEF 12 Mar 1284
DE FERRERS Robert (1239 - 1279)
DE FERRERS William (ABT 1240 - 20 Dec 1287)
DE FERRERS Joane (ABT 1241 - )
DE FERRERS Agnes (1244 - )

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