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 DERBY 197 in Apr. i230.(*) Constable of Bolsover Castle, 28 Feb. 1234/5 to 3 July 1236.0 The King took his homage, and he had livery of Chartley Castle and the rest of" his mother's lands, 10 Nov. I247.() He was invested with the Earldom, 2 Feb. 1247/8, at Westm., and was present at the Pari, of London held in that month. (') On passing over a bridge at St. Neots he was accidentally thrown from the litter which he habitually used — having been afflicted with gout from his youth — and sustained injuries from which he never recovered. He m., istly, before 14 May I2i9,() Sibyl, sister and in her issue coh. of Walter, Earl of Pembroke, and 3rd da. of William (le Mareschal), Earl of Pembroke, by Isabel, da. and h. of Richard (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke. She d. s.p.»i.(') He m., 2ndly, in or before 1238, Margaret, ist da. and coh. of Roger (de Quen'cy), Earl of Winchester, by his ist wife, Helen, ist da. and coh. of Alan de Galweye, Constable of Scotland. He d. at Evington near Leicester, 24 or 28, and was iur. 31 Mar. 1254, in Merevale Abbey.O His widow, the King having taken her homage, had livery, 3 Dec. 1274, of her pur- party of the lands which Alianore de Vaux, late Countess of Winchester, had held in dower of the inheritance of Roger de Quency, sometime Earl (») Pah-nt Rolls, 14 Hen. Ill, p., m. ^ A; 19 Hen. Ill, m. 13; 20 Hen. Ill, m. 5. (•>) Fine Roll, 32 Hen. Ill, m. 14. On 16 Feb. 1248/9, he was ordered to restore to Thomas his br. the castle and manor of Chartley, which A., Countess of Derby, their mother, had given to Thomas. {Closi Roll, 33 Hen. Ill, m. 13 d). This manor had belonged to Stephen de Beauchamp, and the Earl of Chester had purchased it from Stephen's sisters and coheirs in 1222 and 1225. {Feet of Fines, case 208, file 3, nos. 24, 25, 44; case 282, file 8, no. 19). In Trinity term 1262 Thomas was suing Margaret, the Earl's widow, for the manor of Chartley. [Assize Roll, no. 954, m. 40 d). C^) Annales de Burton, p. 285: M. Paris, vol. v, p. 5. C*) That is, in her father's lifetime. "Puis dona li peres Sebire . . . Al filz le conte de Ferieres." (IS Histoire de Guillaume le Markhal, I. 14937-40). This authority mentions Sibyl as the 3rd da., others as the 4th. (') For her seven daughters and coheirs and their representatives see the tabular pedigree on p. 199. In this table the dates of death are derived from the Inquisitions, the Escheators' Accounts, and the Escheators' Enrolled Accounts: save five, which are from Obituaries or the like. " Mccliv. Willelmus de Ferrariis Comes Derbeie obiit v kal. Aprilis apud Eventonam juxta Leycestriam, et sepultus est in capitulo de Mirevalle ii kal. Aprilis." [Annales de Burton, p. 317). " MccLiv. Nono kal. Aprilis obiit Comes de Ferrariis Willelmus filius Willelmi, vir discretus et legum terre peritus. Hie, dum pedum infirmitate diuturna que podagra dicitur a primis annis sicut ejus pater velut hereditaria laboraret, in lectica vel carpento vehi consuevit de loco ad locum. Et dum una dierum iter ageret, veredarii ejus incaute vehiculum suum regentes super quendam pontem, scilicet apud Sanctum Neotum, cadere permiserunt evolutum. Qui contritis licet membris tunc mortem evasisset, nunquam tamen penitus sanus: postea viam universe carnis est ingressus." (M. Paris, vol. v, p. 432).