Henri de Ferrières

   Another name for Henri was Henry de Ferrers.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Henri de Ferrières, Seigneur de Ferrières et Chambrais en Normandy, was the son of Walkelin de Ferrières. He was a Domesday Commissioner, and held at the date of the Survey some 210 lordships or manors, more than half of which were in the county Derby, but the caput of his honor was at Tutbury, then in the district of Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. He founded a priory near Tutbury for benedictine monks, where he was later buried. He married Bertha.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Derby), Vol. IV, pp. 190-191

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Henri de Ferrières.
The Chronique de Normandie, based on le Roman de Rou, names "Henri seigneur de Ferrières" among those who took part in the conquest of England in 1066 [Extrait de la Chronique de Normandie, RHGF XIII, p. 236]. Orderic Vitalis records that the king granted "castrum Stutesburie quod Hugo de Abrincis prius tenuerat" to "Henrico Gualchelini de Ferrariis filio" [Chibnall, M. (ed. and trans.) The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1969-80), Vol. II, Book IV, p. 265]. Henry's wife was named Berta, and they had atleast two sons and two daughters. "Henricus de Ferrariis" founded a church "apud castellum meum Tuttesbury", for the souls of "…uxoris mee Berte et filiorum meorum Engenulphi W, Roberti ac filiarum mearum…" [Dugdale Monasticon, Vol. III, Tutbury Priory, I, p. 391].

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹⁴
Henri de Ferrières and his wife Bertha, had three sons. His eldest son was Eugenulph, whom he gave a castle at Duffield. William was his second son and said to have accompanied Robert, Duke of Narmandy, to the Holy land. Eugenulp and William died during the lifetime of their father. Henri's youngest son, Robert, succeeded to his father's large estates.

Stephen Glover'sThe History of the County of Derby, Part 2, p. 523

Henri married Berta.