Sir William De FERRERS ¹

   Another name for William was Knight.

   Ancestral File Number: 9FSB-63.

   General Notes:

Sir Knight.

BOOKS
The Political History of England, Vol II, George Burton Adams Longmans Green and Co, 1905, Ch I, p54:
[1074] "Already Norman families, who were to make so much of the history of the coming centuries, were rooted in the land. Montfort and Mortimer; Percy, Beauchamp, and Mowbray; Ferrers and Lacy; Beaumont, Mandeville, and Grantmesnil; Clare, Bigod, and Bohun; and many others of equal or nearly equal name. All these were as yet of no higherthan baronial rank, but if we could trust the chroniclers, we should be able to make out in addition a considerable list of earldoms which William had established by this date or soon afterwards, in many parts of England, and in these were other great names..."

Ch XIX, p393: [1199] "...On the part of a considerable number of the barons- the names that are recorded are those of old historic families, Beaumont, Ferrers, Mowbray, De Lacy, the Earls of Clare and Chester- there was found to be opposition to taking the oath of fealty on the ground of injustice committed by the administration..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 9FSB-63 William De FERRERS [Sir Knight] Mar Abt 1262 Anne Le DESPENSER (AFN:9FSB-78) Of Wooten Basset Wiltshire England, Ancestral File Ver 4.13 B3DB-BV.

FAMILY SEARCH ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.19 9FSB-63.

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   Marriage Information:

William married Anne Le DESPENSER, daughter of Sir Hugh Le DESPENSER, III and Countess Aline Bassett NORFOLK, about 1262 in Wooten Basset, Wiltshire, England. (Anne Le DESPENSER was born about 1248-1251 in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England.)