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66 DERBY. the French party against the King in 1 1 73, but subsequently was forced to surrender his castles of Tutbury and Duftield to the crown, which were demolished. He was deprived of his Earldom and other honours by King Richard I, but apparently restored within a few months. He m. Sybilla, da. of William de Buaose, of llrec- knock and Abergavenny, by Bertha, da. of Milo (dk Gloucester), Earl of Hereford. He took the Cross, 11S7, becoming a Crusader, 1190, aud d. in Palestine, before Acre, 21 Oct. 1190. His widow, Sybil, was living 1224. IV. 1190. 4. William (Ferrers), Earl of Derby, or Earl de Ferrers, s. and h. He was one of the four Peers who held the canopy at the second Coronation, 17 April 1194, of King Richard I, bring also present at that of King John, who by charter 7 June 1199, confirmed him in the Earldom of Derby,^) granting him the 3d penny of that county.( h ) He also obtained the manors of Higham-Ferrers, Blisworth, aud Newbottle, co. Northampton, See. He was present at the Coronation of Hen. Ill ; was a Crusader 1218-20 ; Sheriff of co. Lancaster 1224- 27, &c. He m., in 1192, Agnes one of the four sisters and coheirs^) of Randolph (de Blondeville), Earl of Chester, da. of Hugh (de Kevelioc), Earl of Chester, by Bertrada, da. of Simon, Count D'Evreix. By her he acquired the manor of Chart* ley, co. Stafford, and all the lauds between the rivers Kibble and Mersey, &e.(' 1 ) He d. 22 Sep. 1247.( e ) His widow d. a few weeks later in Oct. 1247. V. 1247. 5. William (Ferrers), Earl of Derby, or Earl de Ferrers, s. and h., />. before 1200 ; Envoy to France June, 1225 ; invested with the Earldom, 2 Feb. 1218; inheriting also Chartley and other the estates of his mother. Hem. firstly(') Sybilla, fourth of the five daughters of (whose issue became coheirs to) William (Marshall), Earl of Pembroke, by Isabel, da. and h. of Richard (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke. He m. secondly Margaret, da. and coheir of Roger (de Quixcy), Earl of Winchester, by his 1st wife Helen, 1st da. aud coheir of Alan, Lord of Galloway [S]. He d. 24 March 1253/1, at St. Neots, co. Huntingdon, from a fall from his chariot, which conveyance, owing to constant gout, he from his youth had continually to use : bur. in Merivale Abbey. His widow, who brought him the Lordship of Groby,(K) co. Leicester, d. 1294. Braose, mother of, his son and heir, William, {.Von. V, 553). He calls' himself, how. ever, WUliam again, in his Charter to Bredon Priory, which he made, in 1189, on his way to the Crusades. His widow, Sybil, was living 1218-24 {Tcala 188)." (") Saudford (p. 82) says that " tin- counties of Cornwall, Dorset, and Somerset, Nottingham, Derby, and Lancaster," were, inter alia, bestowed by Richard I [in 1189] on his br. John, afterwards, 1199, Kiny John but at that time Earl of Gloucester. John does not appear, however, to have been thence considered Earl of Deriiy (or Nottingham) tho' according to Vincent (p. 474) "divers good authorities might be produced to prove King John to have been Earl of Somerset " (or Dorset), while Brooke (uncontradicted by Vincent) allows him to be Earl of Lancaster anil Eakl of Cornwall, aud it is also stated by Nicolas (sub Cornwall") that " he bore the title of Earl of Cornwall during the lifetime of King Richard I." ( b ) "Being solemnly cr. Earl of Derby by a spec, charter, then dat. at Northamp- ton he was girt with a sword by the King's own hands (being the first of whom in any charter that expression was used) having likewise thereby a grant of the third penuy of all the pleas impleaded before the Sheriff throughout that whole county whereof he was Earl to hold to him and his heirs in as ample a manner as any of his ancestors enjoyed the same." [Dugdale] ( c ) See their names, &c. in vol. ii, p. 225, note " a," sub " Chester." ( d ) The claim of the Earls (Ferrers) of Derby to the lands of William Peverel (forfeited iu 1155) was probably through this match. See, ante, p. 65 note " g," circa jincm. ( c ) "iEtate fere centenarius " [M. Paris]. ( f ) There were no less than seven daughters of this first marriage, all of whom married and had issue, and became coheirs to their mother in her share of the vast estates of the family of Marshall, Earls of Pembroke. (8) This Lordship was inherited by her second son William Ferrers, whoso s. and h. another William Ferrers was sum. to Pari, as a Baron in 1300 ami was ancestor of the Lords Ferrers de Oroby which Barony devolved iu 1445 to the family of Grey aud was forfeited (with the Dukedom of Suffolk) iu 1554.