Margaret Peverell,
Countess of Derby (b. circa 1114,
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...
, England), was an English noblewoman who lived at
Tutbury Castle
Tutbury Castle is a largely ruined medieval castle at Tutbury, Staffordshire, England, in the ownership of the Duchy of Lancaster and hence currently of King Charles III. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. People who have stayed in the castle ...
in
Staffordshire, England.
Family and marriage
Margaret was the daughter of
William Peverel the Younger
William "the Younger" Peverel ( or – after 1155) was the son of William Peverel. He lived in Nottingham, England.
He married Avicia de Lancaster (1088 – ) in La Marche, Normandy, France. She was possibly the daughter of William de Lancaste ...
of
Peveril Castle
Peveril Castle (also Castleton Castle or Peak Castle) is a ruined 11th-century castle overlooking the village of Castleton in the English county of Derbyshire. It was the main settlement (or ''caput'') of the feudal barony of William Peverel, kn ...
in
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
[Sheppard, Walter Lee, F.A.S.G., "Royal Bye-Blows: The Illegitimate Children of the English Kings," ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' 119(2):95]
According to Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, she married
Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby and thus became Countess of Derby. She was the mother of
William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby
William I de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby (died 31 December 1189) was a 12th-century English Earl who resided in Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire and was head of a family which controlled a large part of Derbyshire known as Duffield Frith. He was ...
and William De Ferrers, Lord of Eggington and a daughter, Petronella.
She died in 1154 and was buried in
Merevale Abbey
Merevale is a small village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of the county of Warwickshire in England. Located about one and a half miles west of Atherstone, it is the site of a medieval Cistercian Abbey (founded in 1148) and ...
.
References
12th-century births
12th-century deaths
English countesses
12th-century English people
12th-century English women
People from Derbyshire
People from the Borough of East Staffordshire
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