DERBY. 67 VL 1254, C>. RorsERT (Ferrers), Earl of Derby, or Earl de to Ferrers, s. and h., J. about 1241 ; as soon a.s he was of full age took 12CG. an active part against the King in the Barons' rebellion, plundering Worcester, &c. He sat in (Montfort's) ParL of 1284 and was at the battles of Lewes and Evesham on the side of the rebels. After submission and pardon by spec. pat. 5 Dec. 1265 (inasmuch as he had been excepted from the terms of the dictum of Kenihvorth) he again rebelled and was defeated at the battle of Chesterfield early in 1200, taken prisoner to London and "iu the Pari, held the same year [r2(itij was totally disherited,"^) whereby his Earldom became forfeited. In March 1268/9 an agreement was made whereby he was allowed to retain ChartlyC") in Staffordshire and Holbrooke iu Derbyshire, yielding up Tutbury and all other his lands and honour*. He hi. firstly (he being 9 and she S years old) before C Feb. 1253, Marie, da. of Hugh Le Eruu, Cocnt of Anqocleme iu France, who was br. of the half-blood {ex p'trtc malcrna) to King Henry III. He m. secondly, Eleanor, "da, as some say to Ralph, Lobd Basset."( j ) He d. in or before 12/9. His widow was living 1281. [The vast estates forfeited by the above Earl, including the Honour of Derby, were 12 July 1260, conferred on the King's yat s. Edmuud (Plantagenet), slijled " Crouchback," Gaul of LANCASTER and Earl of Leicester. This Edmund is, accordingly, sometimes spoken of as EARL OF DERBY also, but "really had nothing of the title of Earl of Derby, "(c) His s. and h. Thomas, styles himself, "Earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Ferrers " (which last must be taken as equivalent to Earl of Derby), on 12 Feb. 1301. This Earl was beheaded 22 March 1322, when, being attainted, all his honours became forfeited.] VII. 1337. 1. Henry (Plantagexet), Loud de Lancastre, s, and h. ap. of Henry, Earl of Lancaster (which last named Henry was 2d 8., but eventually h. of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, sometimes called Earl of Derby, as above stated, the yst. son of King Henry III), was b. about 1299 ; was sum. v.p. to Pari., in his father's Barony, as Lord de Lakcastre, by writ 3 Feb. (1834/5), 9 Ed. Ill, and was IU March 1336/7, cr. EARL OF DERBY, "to hold to him and his heirs." On his father's death 22 Sep. 1315, he sue. him as Earl of Lancaster, &c. He was a. Earl of Lincoln, 20 Aug. 1319 and ou 6 March 1351/2, Doke of Lancaster. See fuller particulars under the latter dignity. He <Z., s.p.in., 13 March 1301/2, when the Dukedom of Lancaster, certainly, and the various Earl- doms, probably, became extinct, the Barony of De Lancastro (cr. by writ of 1299) falling into abeyance.
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lit is, however possible that the Earldom of Derby devolved, or at all events was at that period held to have devolved either (1) to the territorial heir, i.e., the heir of the estates of that Earldom or (2) to the heir general of the body of the grantee, as under.] VIII? 1362. 2% Blancite, 2d and yst. da. and coheir, inherited as her share the honour of Derby and other the estates of the previous Earls of Derby,(») and (by the death s.p. of her eldest sister, Maud, Duchess of M See " Dugdale." ( b ) Chartley was accordingly inherited by his only s. and h. John Ferrers, who by writ, 6 Feb. 1299, was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (Lord Ferrers de Chartley), the Barony, devolving iu M50 to the family of Devereux, and subsequently to that of Shirley, Compton, and Townshend, till it fell into abeyance in 1855. _ (") "It does not appear that at this period the title of Earl of Leicester was con- sidered as attendant upou the Castle and honour of Leicester, or that of the Earl of Derby upon the possessions of the Ferrers family. It is, however, to be observed that nt the Coronation of Richard II, John of Gaunt, King of Castile und Leon, claimed as Earl of Leicester, the High Stewardship of England, as Earl of Lincoln [another Earldom of which his late wife, Maud, was the heiress] to be Carver at the King's table, &c, all of which claims appear to have been allowed." See 'Courthope,"sub "Leicester." P 2
