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- Henry Ferrers assumed the name from Ferriers, a small town of Gastinois, in France, otherwise called Ferrieres from the iron mines which abounded in that country. Due to this fact, he bore for his arms "six horses' shoes," either from the similitude of his cognomen to the French Ferrier, or because the seigneurie produced iron, so essential to the soldier and cavalier in those rude times, when war was esteemed the chief business of life, and the adroit management of the steed, even amongst the nobility, the first of accomplishments.
Henry de Ferrers came into England with William the Conqueror, and received large grants of land. Whatever his services, it was not till after Hugh d'Avranches was created Earl of Chester, in 1071, that Henry de Ferrers received at least the Castle of Tutbury, which had been previously granted to the said Hugh, and resigned by him upon becoming Earl of Chester. In 1085, we find him appointed one of the commissioners for the general survey of the kingdom, and in that year he is recorded as the holder, besides the Castle of Tutbury, of seven lordships in Staffordshire, twenty in Berkshire, three in Wiltshire, five in Essex, seven in Oxfordshire, two in Lincolnshire, two in Buckinghamshire, one in Gloucestershire, two in Herefordshire
Royal Families in Europe, Mayflower Descendants: Henry de Ferrers came into England with William the Conqueror, and obtained a grant of Tutbury Castle in County Stafford and large possessions in other counties, including 114 manors in Derbyshire.
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