Edmund de Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley

Edmund de Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley

• Died 17 Dec 1435 
• Father: Robert de Ferrers, 5th Lord Ferrers of Chartley ,   b. 31 Oct 1357, Chartley, Stafford ,   d. 12 Mar 1412/1413  (Age 54 years) 
• Mother: Margaret le Despenser,   b. in Ryhall, Rutland ,   d. 3 Nov 1415 

Oldest son.

family

From Ancestors of Alexandra Catlin Vaut

Married

1. Ellen/Eleanor de la Roche d. 4 Nov 1440 Children
2. Margaret Ferrers+3,13 d. a 29 Jan 1487
3. Richard De Ferrers3
4. Henry Ferrers14
5. Edward Ferrers14
6. Joan Ferrers15
7. The Hon. Edmund Ferrers of Taynton+1,3 b. b 1387, d. 1435
8. Sir William Ferrers Knt., de jure 7th Lord Baron Ferrers of Chartley+1,5,3,16,15 b. c 1412, d. 9 Jun 1450

biography

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Edmund de Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley was born 1386 and died 1435. He was the son of Robert de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley and Margaret Le Despenser - a daughter of Sir Edward Le Despenser.

He inherited the title of Baron Ferrers of Chartley upon his father's death in 1413 but was never summoned to parliament.

Edmund fought in most of the great victories of King Henry V including the Battle of Agincourt and married Helen, daughter and co-heir of Thomas de la Roche, by whom he acquired large landed possessions, amongst which was that of Castle Bromwich in the county of Derby.

The couple had two sons, Edmund (to whom his estates were entailed) and William who became William, 6th Baron Ferrers of Chartley as well as one daughter Margaret de Ferrers who married John Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp of Powick becoming Lady Beaucamp of Powick in her own right.

Edmund de Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley died aged 49 in 1435.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
• www.thepeerage.com

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notes

From Ancestors of Alexandra Catlin Vaut, et al

Faris (1999, pp. 137-138):

"EDMUND DE FERRERS, Knt., of Chartley , co. Stafford, was born about 1387 (aged twenty-six or more at father's death). About 1413, assisted by his brothers, Thomas and Edward, he carried on a private war with the Erdeswikes of Sandon, near Chartley, receiving a pardon on 24 Jan. 1414/5."

• http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00177559&tree=LEO
  • The Complete Peerage, 1936 , Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden. V 317
  • Information supplied by Douglas Richardson .wedding date
• http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/ferrersc1299.htm
• page 42 of Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ...