Our last post talked about my 14th great grandmother:
Lady Anne Ferrers, Lady of Tamworth Castle, Baroness Gresley of Chartley
1438–1499
BIRTH NOV 1445 • Tamworth Castle, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
DEATH 09 JAN 1499 • Colton Hall, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
Her father was: (****)
Sir Lord Thomas II Ferrers, Knight of Tamworth, 2nd Lord of Tamworth, 7th Baron Ferrers of Groby
1427–1499
BIRTH ABT 1420 • Tamworth Castle, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
DEATH 22 AUG 1499 • Tamworth Castle, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
and her mother was: (***)
Lady Anne Hastings, Lady of Kirby Castle, 2nd Baroness of Tamworth, Baroness Ferrers of Groby
1423–1479
BIRTH 1423/27/32 • Kirby Castle, Kirby, Leicestershire, England
DEATH 1479 • Tamworth Castle, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England
Her parents are not listed on any Ancestry trees at this time, so we've reached an ancestress that is the oldest we know of...my 15th great grandmother.
And next in the male line is his father:
Thomas De Ferrers (Baron of Groby) Sir
1395–1458
BIRTH 1395 • Groby, Leicestershire, ENGLAND
DEATH 6 JAN 1458/59 • Groby, Leichestershire, ENGLAND
Some information about him is...
1st Lord of Tamworth by marriage. He made Tamworth the seat of an important branch of the Ferrers of Groby. It had a covert role as a "safe house" of sorts for the preeminent Catholic families of England during the Tudor era-- and yet the heirs of Lord Tamworth developed a strongarm organization to enforce the laws of the Crown in Staffordshire, and clean up problems that had only naturally existed in the environs of such a formidable castle.
Better roads were to make enforcement by the central government easier by the 16th century, and of course cannon made obsolete the notion of an impregnable fortress-- caretakers under the Ferrers stewardship understood this, and since they led double lives (as Catholics) they understood and preserved the arts of playing both sides, a way of life during the Dynastic Wars, but lost to memory as new generations of royalty grew more and more comfortable in their power.
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(***) There are some records which acknowledge the birth dates have a span of about 10 years...so that may make some of them believable.
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