Margaret Peverell, Countess of Derby

Margaret Peverell, Countess of Derby (b. circa 1114, Nottinghamshire, England), was an English noblewoman who lived at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, England.

Margaret Ferrers' effigy in Merevale Abbey

Family and marriage

Margaret was the daughter of William Peverel the Younger of Peveril Castle in Derbyshire[1][2][3]

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 and William De Ferrers, Lord of Eggington and a daughter, Petronella.{Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages}

She died in 1154 and was buried in Merevale Abbey.

gollark: Now it uninstalls potatOS using your suggested exploit to get around those protections.
gollark: Let's imagine that TomatOS wants to be evil and viral, but can't because of potatOS protection.
gollark: It could be.
gollark: To be fair, factorizing these big numbers is harder, but your computer can do it in milliseconds.
gollark: That could be spoofed by malicious code.

References
  1. Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910.), 4:311
  2. Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999.), pp. 361, 494
  3. 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


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.