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 196 DERBY He m., in ii92,(*) Agnes, sister and coh. of Randolf, Earl of Chester AND Lincoln, and 3rd da. of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by Bertrade, da. of Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux. On 22 Nov. 1232 they had livery of her purparty of her brother's lands, viz. of the castle and manor of Chartley, co. Stafford, the castle and vill of West Derby, co. Lancaster, with all the lands which Earl Randolf had held between Ribble and Mersey,('') the vills of Bugbrooke, Northants, and Navenby, co. Lincoln. (") On 12 Sep. 1233 they had assignment of the knights' fees, late of the said Earl, which had been apportioned to them.() He d. 22 Sep. 1247, having been long afflicted with the gout.() His widow, the King having taken her homage, had livery, 12 Oct. 1247, of her inheritance (above mentioned) in cos. Lancaster, Lincoln, and Stafford, including the castle of Chartley.(') She d. 2 Nov. i247.('*) V. 1247. 5. William (de Ferrieres or de Ferrers), Earl of Derby, s. and h.(') He accompanied the King to France (») A final concord in the Court of William, son of William, Earl of Ferrieres, at Tutbury, before the said Earl, is dated " MC nonagessimo secundo anno scilicet in quo Willelmus Comes de Ferrariis duxit Anneis in uxorem sororem Rannulfi Comitis Cestrie." {Stemmata Shirle'tana, appendix, no. 13). (•*) That is, the vills of West Derby and Salford with the wapentakes, the borough of Liverpool, and the wapentake of Leyland, held by the service of a mewed goshawk or 40s. a year. [Charter Roll, 13 Hen. Ill, p. I, m. 2: Fine Roll, 18 Hen. Ill, m. i). ("=) Close Roll, 17 Hen. Ill, mm. 16, 15, 4. (•*) "MccxLVii. Isto anno obiit Willelmus de Ferrariis nobilis Comes Derbeie, X kal. Octobris. Agnes Comitissa uxor ejus, completa quarentina sua, decessit quarto non. Novembris." {Annales de Burton, p. 285). " MccxLvii. [Obiit] circa diem sancte Katerine [25 Nov.] W. Comes de Ferrariis vir quidem pacificus et Justus et annosus, et multo tempore morbo podagrico fatigatus. Cujus sponsalia et uxoris sue Comitisse celebravit beatus Thomas Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus. Eodem quoque mense obiit uxor ejusdem Comitissa M. [w] de Ferrariis ejusdem etatis fame et boni- tatis. Successit igitur patri in comitatu filius dicti Comitis, Willelmus primogenitus et heres, vir bonus et discretus, sed eodem morbo quo et pater miserabiliter infirmatus." (M. Paris, vol. iv, p. 654). In thus stating that the Earl was married before 11 71, the historian has probably confused him with his father. (=) Close Roll, 31 Hen. Ill, m. 2. His arms were Sable (or Azure), an escutcheon vairy Or and Gules, and an orle of 8 horse-shoes Argent. (Planch^'s Roll, no. 92; St. George's Roll, no. 70; Camden's Roll, no. 244). Cf. seal, Egerton Charter, no. 442. The arms of the sires or barons of Ferrieres and Chambrais — descended from Henry de Ferrieres, who lost Oakham in 1205 — were, Gules, an escutcheon Ermine, and an orle of 8 horse- shoes Or. (Navarre, Armorial, no. 160). The similarity of these arms seems to discredit Blanche's conjecture that the horse-shoes in the arms of the 5th Earl were due to his marriage with a coheiress of the Earls Marshals. The 4th and 6th Earls bore Vairy, without addition. (Seals, Wolley Charter, 2, I, and Addit. Charter, no. 20459).