Robert de Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley ( Chartley,

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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 (20 June 1271 Cardiff – 1312) 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 Bo ...

and Hawise de Muscegros, a daughter of

Robert de Muscegros The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, reno ...

. He had inherited the title

Baron Ferrers of Chartley The title Baron Ferrers of Chartley was created on 6 February 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 ...

from his elder brother John, 2nd Baron, between 1321 and July 1324,Marios Costambeys (2004)
"Ferrers, John de, first Lord Ferrers of Chartley (1271–1312), magnate"
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Retrieved 11 November 2018. and was summoned to parliament on 25 February 1342. Robert served frequently in the Scottish and French wars of

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as well as participating the victory at Cressy. Before 20 October 1333, he either married Agnes, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun Burke, John, Esq. ''A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant and in Abeyance.'' London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. (p. 196
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Retrieved 4 May or a woman named Margaret. They had one son, John who succeeded his father as John de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley. After the death of Margaret, Robert remarried to Joan de la Mote before 1350. Sources conflict on whether his second son, Sir Robert Ferrers, summoned to parliament as 'Robert Ferrers of Wem' as husband of Elizabeth Boteler, 4th Baroness Boteler of Wem, by whom he had Robert Ferrers of Wem. was by this second wife Joan or by his first wife Agnes Robert de Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley, died on 28 August 1350.

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