Walkelin Seigneur de Ferrières Lord of Oakham

  General Notes:

Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 132C:28, 262:29, Walkelin de Ferrières was the father of Isabella, who married Roger de Mortimer. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
The Ferrières's lands in Normandy were eventually inherited by Henry de Ferrieres, the nephew of Robert de Ferrières, 1st Earl of Derby's, and son and heir of one of his brothers, either Engenulf or William. Henry, who was living in 1136, held Oakham, co. Rutland, and Lechlade, Glouceshire (a manor held by his grandfather Henry at the Domesday Survey). He was father of Walkelin, who was father of:

Henry, Seigneur de Chambres in 1202

Hugh, of Lechlade, who dsp. in 1204, having m. Margaret, daughter and heir of Hugh de Say of Richard's Castle

Isabel (d. before 31 May 1252), who m., 1^st, Roger de Mortemer of Wigmore (d. 24 June 1214), and 2^nd , Piers fitz Herbert of Blaen Llyfni (d. 1 June 1235). Isabel inherited Lechlade, and also Oakham, which her eldest brother, Henry, had lost at the time of the conquest of Normandy. Henry was the ancestor of the seigneurs of Ferrieres and Chambrais, the last of whom, Jean, dspm. in 1504. A custom quite recently existed that a peer of the realm, the first time he passed through Oakham, should give a horse-shoe to be nailed upon the castle-gate; a toll or privilege dating, no doubt, from the time of the ancient lords of that town.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Derby), Vol. IV, pp. 191 footnote (c)