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the Horse on which he rideth unless he redeem it with money. The true
Original of which custome I have not been able on my utmost endeavour to discover. But that such is, and time out of mind hath been, the Usage, appears by several Monumental Horseshoes (some gilded and of curious Workmanship) nail'd upon the Castle Hall Door.
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and grandson of the 1st Baron, was summoned to parliament as Robert
Ferrers of Wem. By modern usage, this would be seen to have created a novel peerage, the Barons Ferrers of Wem. However, Vicary Gibbs has argued that such a formulation would be anachronistic, and that he should be viewed as simply
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The Lord of the castle and manor of Okeham for the time being claims by prescription a
Franchise or Royalty very rare and of singular note, viz. : That the first time any Peer of this Kingdom shall happen to pass through the precincts of this Lordship, he shall forfeit as a Homage a Shoe from
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and gave rise to a line that would hold the
Earldom of Derby for six generations before losing it in rebellion. They also gave rise to several lines that held English peerages, the longest-living going extinct in the male line in the 15th century, as well as a Norman branch of the family that
322:. Draconian terms were set for the reacquisition of his lands, and he was only able to have the manor of Chartley, Staffordshire, restored to him in 1275. Though the family ceased to hold the earldom, two new peerages were created in his immediate family, his son being later created
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was summoned to
Parliament in December 1299 as Baron Ferrers of Groby. The title continued in the male line until the death of William Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Groby in 1445 without male issue, when it continued via a female line, becoming forfeit in 1554.
347:, son of the 6th Earl, carried on an unsuccessful life-long struggle to have his father's properties restored, but was himself summoned to Parliament in 1299 as Baron Ferrers of Chartley. This peerage continued in his line until
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The Norman lands of
English founder Henry de Ferrers passed to one of his two elder sons, William or Engenulf, and thence to a younger Henry de Ferrers, a son of one of these two. He also held lands in England, at
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being responsible for the care (and thus shoeing) of war-horses - the first wife of
William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, by whom he had only daughters, was Sibyl Marshal, a daughter of
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would be considered the 2nd Baron, but following Gibbs, he held no title as he predeceased his mother. Any claim to the title would have gone into abeyance via the son's two daughters.
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in
Normandy when he participated in the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. Henry brought three of his feudal followers and tenants to England in his retinue, namely the knights
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favourite horse "Clinker") was "once abstracted by some ingenious thief who mistook the gilding for gold; but returned it in a railway parcel on discovering his error".
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Due to the etymology of their surname, sources say that the early heraldic device of the de
Ferrers family was a horse-shoe, or six black ones on a white background,
519:, built in 1180/90, ceremonial horseshoes are still presented today by prominent visitors in honour of the de Ferrers family, described in James Wright's 1684
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Many survive, each inscribed with the name and title of the peer who presented it. Many bear crests and coronets, the so-called "Golden Shoe" (taken off
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died in 1450 without male issue, after which it passed into several successive families descending from them in the female line before going into
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164:(from Livet-en-Ouche), who all subsequently founded prominent English families. Henry was richly rewarded by King
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Larousse, Dictionnaire de la langue francise, "Lexis", Paris, 1979, p.735: "ferrer: garnir un objet avec du fer"
40:) where ceremonial horseshoes are still presented today by prominent visitors in honour of the de Ferrers family
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to the title inherited by his wife, heiress of the Barons Boteler of Wem. Were it a new creation then his son
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were a noble Anglo-Norman family that crossed to England with the
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in 1138. The earldom would descend in his family until
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and in about 1066 or 1067 he was granted the lands in
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