Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Chartley (Chartley

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, Staffordshire

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, 25 March 1309 – 28 August 1350), was the son of John de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley

John de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley

Sir John de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley was the son of Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby and Alianore de Bohun, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Eleanor de Braose, and granddaughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford.Sometime before 1300, Sir John married Hawise de Muscegros...

 and Hawise de Muscegros, a daughter of Robert de Muscegros.

He inherited the title Baron Ferrers of Chartley

Baron Ferrers of Chartley

The title Baron Ferrers of Chartley was created on February 6, 1299 for John de Ferrers, son of Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby. The daughter of the 6th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, Anne, married Walter Devereux who was summoned to parliament as Lord Ferrers in her right. Their descendants...

 upon his father's death from poisoning in Gascony

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 in 1324 and was summoned to parliament on 25 February 1342.

Robert served frequently in the Scottish and French wars of Edward III

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 as well as participating the victory at Cressy

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Robert married Agnes (also known as Aeneas) de Bohun a daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford

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 and Elizabeth of Rhuddlan

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, daughter of Edward I

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 and a close sibling of Edward II

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. Agnes was born about 1314 in Caldecot, Northampton

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 and died in 1343.

The couple had two sons, John, who succeeded his father as John de Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley

John de Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley

John de Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley was the son of Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Chartley and Agnes de Bohun, a daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Elizabeth of Rhuddlan....

, and Sir Robert Ferrers, summoned to parliament as the 4th Baron Boteler of Wem Jure uxoris

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through his marriage to Elizabeth Boteler, 4th Baroness Boteler of Wem, by whom he had Robert Ferrers, 5th Baron Boteler of Wem.

Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Chartley, died on the 28 August 1350.