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Birth:          ABT 1373 Willisham, Suffolk, England
Death:          BEF 29 Nov 1396 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ferrers,_2nd_Baron_Ferrers_of_Wem
Robert Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Wem (c. 1373 – bef. 29 November 1396). He was 
born in Willisham, Suffolk.

Robert was the son of Sir Robert Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Wem (created by Writ of 
Summons dated December 28, 1375[1]), and Elizabeth Boteler, 4th Baroness Boteler 
of Wem, who died in June 1411, and paternal grandson of Robert de Ferrers, 2nd 
Baron Ferrers of Chartley and Agnes or Aeneas de Bohun. Upon the death of his 
father in December 1380, he became Baron Boteler of Wem jure matris (he 
predeceased his mother, so never actually became the 5th baron; after his death, his 
mother's 3rd husband assumed this title as 4th Baron Boteler of Wem jure uxoris[2]) as 
well as 2nd Baron Ferrers of Wem. He had no son but two daughters. Female siblings 
being co-heiresses in England, both baronies are still abeyant between the 
descendants of these two sisters.[2]
Family[edit]

Robert Ferrers married Joan Beaufort in 1391 at Beaufort-en-Vallée, Anjou. They had 
two daughters:
Elizabeth (1393 – 1434). She is buried at Black Friars Church, York. She married John 
de Greystoke, 4th Baron Greystoke (1389 – 1436) on 28 October 1407 in Greystoke 
Castle, Greystoke, Cumberland, and had issue. They had 12 children.[3] One of their 
daughters, Anne married Sir Ralph Bigod, descendant of Hugh Bigod (Justiciar)[4] and 
his wife Joan de Stuteville (daughter of Dervorguilla I of Galloway, daughter of 
Lochlann of Galloway), and became ancestress of George Gascoigne, poet, and 
Zachary Taylor,[5] 12th president of the U.S.A.
Mary or Margery (1394 – 25 January 1457/1458). She married her stepbrother, Sir 
Ralph Neville, son of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmoreland, c. 1413 in Oversley, 
Warwickshire and had issue. Her granddaughter Joan was the mother of Sir William 
Gascoigne (c. 1450 – 1486) who married Margaret Percy and became ancestor of many 
notable persons including Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Diana, Princess of 
Wales, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, George Washington and William Howard 
Taft (see entry on Margaret Percy for further details).

Parents
DE FERRERS Robert (ABT 1341 - 1381)
BOTILLER (BOTELER) Elizabeth (1345 - Jun 1411)

Siblings
DE FERRERS Robert (ABT 1373 - BEF 29 Nov 1396)

Marriage To DE BEAUFORT Joan (ABT 1372 - 13 Nov 1440)
    m. 1391 

Notes

Parents
OF GAUNT John (Mar 1340 - 3 Feb 1399)
DE ROET Katherine (25 Nov 1350 - 10 May 1403)

Children by DE BEAUFORT Joan ABT 1372 - 13 Nov 1440
DE FERRERS Elizabeth (1393 - 1434)
DE FERRERS Mary (Margery) (1394 - 25 Jan 1458)

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