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. Following his death without a son, these peearages went into abeyance between his two daughters.[2]

Family

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. One of their daughters, Anne married Sir Ralph Bigod.
  • Mary or Margery (1394 – 25 January 1457/1458). She married her stepbrother, Sir Ralph Neville, son of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmoreland, before 1411 in Oversley, Warwickshire and had issue. Her granddaughter, Joan, was the mother of Sir William Gascoigne (c. 1450 – 1486) who married Margaret Percy.

Ancestry

References
  1. John Burke, John Burke, A general and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance (Burke's Extinct Peerage), London: H. Colburn & R. Bentley, 1831, p. 194
  2. Burke's Extinct Peerage, 71

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