Isabel de Verdun, Lady Ferrers of Groby

BIRTH 21 Mar 1315

Amesbury, Wiltshire Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, England

DEATH 25 Jul 1349 (aged 34)

Groby, Hinckley and Bosworth Borough, Leicestershire, England

BURIAL

St Mary's Priory

Ulverscroft, Charnwood Borough, Leicestershire, England

Isabel de Verdun, Lady Ferrers of Groby  was an heiress, who was related to the English royal family as the eldest daughter of Elizabeth de Clare, herself a granddaughter of King Edward I of England and the only child of Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Lord Verdun, Justiciar of Ireland. When she was a child, Isabel was imprisoned in Barking Abbey, along with her mother and half-sister, after her stepfather had joined the Earl of Lancaster's ill-fated rebellion against King Edward II.
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el married Henry de Ferrers, 2nd Lord Ferrers of Groby (born before 1303- 15 September 1343) in 1328 at Newbold Verdon, Leicestershire. He was the son of William de Ferrers, 1st Lord Ferrers of Groby and Ellen de Seagrove. She was eleven years old at the time of her marriage.

The marriage produced at least five children, four of whom survived infancy. Following the birth of her eldest child in February 1331, when Isabel was not quite 14 years of age, her mother sent her presents for her "churching". This was a special religious ceremony performed for the benefit of a woman shortly after childbirth. 

The child, whose sex was not recorded, died in early infancy.

Her second child was William de Ferrers, 3rd Lord Ferrers of Groby (28 February 1333 Newbold Verdon- 8 January 1371), married Margaret de Ufford, daughter of Robert d'Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk and Margaret de Norwich, by whom he had issue, including Henry de Ferrers, 4th Lord Ferrers of Groby, who married Joan de Hoo, and Margaret de Ferrers, who married Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick.

Isabel died on 25 July 1349 of the plague. Her husband had died on 15 September 1343 and was buried in Ulvescroft Priory.

Her ancestors go back to Charlemagne...

Source listed under header.
Family Members

Parents

• Theobald de Verdun
  

  1278–1316
• Elizabeth de Clare
  

  1295–1360

Spouse

• Henry de Ferrers
  

  1303–1343

Half Siblings

• Joan De Verdun
  

  1303–1334
• Elizabeth de Verdun Burghersh
  

  1306–1360
• Margery de Verdun Crophill
  

  1310–1363

Children

• Elizabeth de Ferrers Malewayn
  

  unknown–1375
• William Ferrers
  

  1332–1371

  
  

  Source: Find a Grave, UK and Ireland

  
  

  
  
  
  

Henry de Ferrers

Second Lord Ferrers of Groby, (1303-1343 he served King Edward III.

Married to Isabel de Verdun (1315-1349) before 1331.

Summoned to Parliament 1330-1338.   Accompanied the King to Ireland in 1331, but was among the disinherited who took part in Edward de Baliol's invasion of Scotland in 1332. He received a pardon in 1338 for all offenses, including the capture of Roger de Mortimer. He was with the King at the Battle of Sluys in 1340.

I don't know yet how, but ancestry includes links to the first 2 Anglo Saxon Kings and the early Kings of Scotland.

All that remains of Groby Castle is the Great Hall, the brick building pictured here.

 The link to the first 2 Kings of Anglo Saxony is something I haven't yet followed.

So this ancestor will take some more time and attention.

Sir John de Hedersete, Sir Walter de Norwich and wives

The de Hedersete family...

Look at a recent post HERE which mentioned briefly the 22 great grandparents generation...about whom I was doing some guessing.

Now I am thrilled to add not only a coat of arms... but a castle being restored that belonged to them.

Mettingham Castle, Suffolk, England

Sir John de Hedersete #22 (1253-1282)
These are some of our earlier ancestors, but not directly in the royal lineage.
his wife: Lady Margery (Margaret) de Hedersete #22 (1246-1300 or 1343)

The dates of these people aren't written in stone, and some ancestry families have different ones.

Here's the article about the castle restoration: (You may need to have an ancestry account.)  It's from a blog, Medieval News, published in 2010. 

Their daughter Catherine de Hedersete #21 (1280-after 1304) married  Sir Walter de Norwich #21 (1280-abt. 1340).  Their dates are obviously in a general ballpark.  But working for the king, meant Sir Walter had documentation throughout his life:

WALTER DE NORWICH had a protection February 1297, and, as the King's clerk, in December 1299 licence to inclose a lane adjoining his messuage in Norwich. He was Remembrancer of the Exchequer, March 1307/8, appointed a Baron, August 1311; Chief Baron, March 1311/2; Treasurer (after serving several periods as deputy Treasurer), September 1314 to May 1317. In 1315, for his good services as Treasurer, he had a grant of 1,000 marks, to maintain his state more honourably in the King's service. Keeper of the office of the Treasurer, November 1319 to February following, and again in 1321, 1322, and 1324. He was summoned to Councils at York and Lincoln, January and June 1312, and (among the justices) to Parliaments, July 1312 onwards. As farmer of the custody of the lands of Thomas de Cailly, during the minority of the heir, he was Keeper of Buckenham Castle, August 1316 till September 1325. In July 1322 he was a member of the commission to try the Mortimers, and in 1324 was returned by the sheriff of Norfolk as summoned to attend the Great Council at Westminster.

He m. Catherine, da. of Sir John DE HEDERSETE, and widow of Piers BRAUNCHE. He died between 12 April 1328 and 20 February 1328/9, and was buried in Norwich Cathedral. His widow had writ for dower, and died between January 1340/1 and October 1343. [CP 9:762-3]

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1. Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
   Page: 232-32
2. Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
   Page: XII/1:432
3. Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
   Page: XII/2:659-60
4. Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
   Page: IX:762-3
5. Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
   Page: IX:762-3
   Text: no date, 2nd husb.

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As mentioned before, their daughter Margaret de Norwich #20  (1300-1375) married Robert de Ufford #20 (1298-1469), the First Earl of Suffolk.  And their daughter (Margaret de Ufford) married Sir William de Ferrers #19, the great great greaat grandson of King Edward I Plantagenet #23.  

Just the lineage in a list

Our lineage simplified:
King Edward I Plantagenet (1239-1307) m. (1250) Eleanor de Castile Capet (Leonora (1240-1290)
Their daughter Joan of Acre (1272-1307) m.Gilbert de Clare (1243-1295)
Their daughter, Elizabeth de Clare (1295-1360) m. (1315/16) Sir Theobald de Verdun (1278-1316)
Their daughter  Isabel de Verdun (1315-1349) m.Henry de Ferrers (1302-1343
Their son Sir William de Ferrers (1332-1371) m.Margaret de Ufford de Ferrers (1330-aft.1355)
Their son Sir Henry Ferrers (1355-1388) m.Joan de Poynings Ferrers (1356-1394)
Their son William Ferrers (1371-1445) m. Pilippa Clifford Ferrers (1374-1405)
Their son Sir Thomas de Ferrers, Baron of Groby) m.(between 1414-1437) Lady Elisabeth de Freville Baroness of Tamworth (1393-1468)
Their son Sir Lord Thomas II Ferrers, 2^nd Lord of Tamworth, 7^th Baron Ferrers of Groby (b. between 1420-1438 – 1499) m Lady Anne Hastings, Lady of Kirby Castle, 2^nd Baroness of Tamworth, Baroness Ferrers of Groby (1423-1479)
Their daughter Anne de Ferrers, Lady of Tamworth Castle, Baroness Gresley of Chartley (1438-1499) m.Sir Lord Thomas Gresley, Knight of Colton, Sheriff of Staffordshire, Baron Gresley of Charatley (1435-1502)
Their daughter Dame Edith Elizabeth Gresley (1462-1523) m. (2^nd) John Bower Sr (1460-1479)
Their son John Bower Jr (1478-1498) m. Joan Bridmore Bower (1451-1588)
Their son Robert Bower (1493-1517) m. Agnes Weston Bower (1490-1535)
Their son Edmond L. Bower, Gent, (1513-1570) m. 1558 Joan Moggeridge Bowers (1509-1565)
Their son Thomas Bowers (1555- abt. 1620) m.1590 Elizabeth Iwerner Minster Bowers (1570-1630)
Their son George Bowers (Immigrant) (1590-1656) m 1614 Barbara (Barbarie) Smyth (Smithe) Bowers (1596-1644)
Their son Benanuel Bowers (1627-1698) m. 1653 Elizabeth (Marie) Dunster (1632-1693)
Their son Jonathan Bowers Capt. (1673-1750) m. 1695 Ann Sylvester Bowers (1669-1745)
Their daughter Mary Bowers Swasey (1719-aft.1823) m.1744 Joseph Swasey (1714-1801)
Their son, Lt. Jerathmel Bowers Swasey (1752-1826) m. 1775 Sarah Hellon Swasey (1757-1836)
Their son Alexander G. Swasey Sr, Capt, (1784-1861) m. 1807 Ruth Woodward (1788-1842
Their son Alexander G. Swasey Jr, Capt. Blockade Runner (1812-1866) m. Anna J. (Fanny Tylstra) Zylstra Swasey (1815-?)
Their son Alexander John Swasey (2853-1913) m. 1882 Zulieka Granger Phillips Swasey (1858-1935)
Their daughter Ada Phillips Swasey Rogers (1996-1964) m. 1905 George Elmore Rogers Sr. (1877-1960)
Their son George Elmore Rogers Jr. (1914-1985) m. 1936 Mataley Mozelle Webb Munhall Rogers (1917-2003)
These were my parents

Where have I been?

Some notes about being bogged down.
I started adding photos of my 3 sons to my document about our family history.

BIG mistake.
I have many more photos of them than any of the ancestors, except maybe my parents.

So that was not a manageable size document to print and bind and give to my sons for Christmas.

I'm going to make a separate document, and probably just save it into "thumb drives."  So now that's been decided, and now I can return to the ancestry document of 24 generations back to Edward Longshanks.

And once it's edited a few times, I'll take it to our local print copying office, also the UPS store.

Compiling or editing

Working on a document, weaving together various posts about one line of ancestors.

Goodness, I diverged all over the place, didn't I?  Well, I was starting with my own family and going back in time.  That meant my 5 (one a stepgrandfather) grandparents would have had their own 4 grandparents...so by 10 generations back, that's a couple hundred, I believe.

Once I did the math, but today I don't feel like doing it.

So now I'm thinking whether to organize this one line of ancestors into which direction of reading...from present to past, or from past to present.  I think the former.  But that will be more work, because I've been posting in my own life as I found older and older grandparents...thus the most recent blog posts have been about the oldest generations.

OK, just wanted to check in and let you know I'm still alive, sometimes it feels just barely!