Henry Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby

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Henry Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby (also Henry Ferrers I ) (* around 1303; † September 15, 1343 in Groby ) was an English nobleman.

Origin and heritage

Henry Ferrers came from the Anglo-Norman Ferrers family . He was the eldest son of William Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby and his wife Ellen. After his father's death in 1325, he inherited his estates, including Groby Castle in Leicestershire . Before February 1331 he married Isabel , the posthumously born daughter of Theobald de Verdon, 2nd Baron Verdon and Elizabeth de Clare . As the youngest of Theobald de Verdon's four daughters, Isabel was a partial heir to her father's estates, and before 1335 Ferrers even managed to redistribute Verdon's inheritance. This new division of inheritance was advantageous to Ferrers, as his wife now inherited the estates in Ireland as well as estates in seven counties in the Midlands, which now fell under Ferrer's administration. In addition, he achieved that his mother-in-law Elizabeth de Clare, who was a partial heir of the Clare family , bequeathed her daughter four more estates in the Midlands. These only fell to Henry's son after her death in 1360.

Service to the Earl of Lancaster and property claims in Scotland

In 1325 Ferrers was part of Henry Beaumont's entourage , who accompanied the heir to the throne Edward to France, where he paid homage to the French king for his possessions in Gascony . Before 1329, Ferrers entered the service of Henry of Lancaster . When he rebelled against the rule of Roger Mortimer in vain in January 1329 , Ferrers supported him militarily. Mortimer then ordered the confiscation of Ferrer's possessions on January 16. After Mortimer's fall in October 1330, Ferrers received an annual pension of £ 100 from Lancaster. As a descendant of Helen, daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway , Ferrers had rights to possessions in Scotland, which were not considered extinct by the peace of 1328 . Therefore, he was considered one of the disinherited who tried to enforce their claims on Scottish territory. In 1332 he was supposed to take part in a campaign to Ireland in the service of the king, but this was canceled. He then belonged to the small army of the disinherited in August 1332, who landed in Scotland under the leadership of Henry Beaumont and Edward Balliol . The disinherited were able to defeat a Scottish army at the Battle of Dupplin Moor , but were driven out of Scotland again by the end of the year. He then took part in the English King's campaign to Scotland in 1333 , and in the same year he was appointed administrator of the Channel Islands . From 1334 to 1335 he served as the garrison in command of the Scottish border town of Berwick , but ultimately the war in Scotland was unsuccessful and Ferrers could not enforce his claims to Scottish territory.

Further advancement at the court of Edward III, illness and death

As Baron Ferrers of Groby , Ferrers was regularly called to parliaments . In the 1330s Ferrers became a member of the Privy Council, and from 1337 he served as King's Chamberlain . In these functions he was involved in the alliance negotiations with Count Ludwig von Flanders and took part in the king's campaign in Flanders at the beginning of the Hundred Years War . For the heavily indebted king, Ferrers had to take out further loans and vouch for them. In return, Edward III granted him. 1337 permission to trade in wine, 1338 and 1340 to direct wool export and from 1338 the right to hold weekly and annual markets in Groby , Stebbing and Woodham . In 1337 he was given an estate in Buckinghamshire as a fief, plus two other estates in Derbyshire and Essex , from which he had an annual income of £ 160. His career was short, however, as he was replaced as King's Chamberlain in 1340, presumably due to illness. In July 1342 he was seriously ill. After his death in September 1343 he was buried in Ulverscroft Priory in Leicestershire.

Family and offspring

With his wife, Isabel de Verdon, he had at least two sons and daughters, including:

  1. ⚭ David Strathbogie, 3rd Baron Strabolgi († 1369)
  2. ⚭ John Malewayn

His heir became his eldest son, William.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ranald Nicholson: Edward III and the Scots. The formative Years of a Military Career . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1965, p. 62.
  2. ^ Ranald Nicholson: Edward III and the Scots. The formative Years of a Military Career . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1965, p. 66.
  3. ^ Ranald Nicholson: Edward III and the Scots. The formative Years of a Military Career . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1965, p. 80.
  4. ^ Ranald Nicholson: Edward III and the Scots. The formative Years of a Military Career . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1965, p. 189.
predecessor Office successor
William Ferrers Baron Ferrers of Groby
1325-1343 		William Ferrers
personal data
SURNAME Ferrers, Henry, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferrers, Henry I; De Ferrers, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1303
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1343
Place of death Groby