1066-1086 Complete Peerage states, [1]
Henry de Ferrieres, Sire de Ferrieres and Chambrais in Normandy, s. of Walkelin de Ferrieres, … was a Domesday Commissioner, and held at the date of the Survey some 210 lordships or manors, more than half of which were in co. Derby, but the caput of his honour was at Tutbury, then in the district of Burton-on-Trent, Co. Stafford.
Ordericus states that the King granted 'Henrico Gualchelini de Ferrariis filio castrum Stutesburie, quod Hugo de Abrincis prius tenuerat.'
1080 "The Priory of Tuttebury was founded by Henry de Ferrers in 1080." [2]
1086 The Domesday book describes land granted to Henry in Staffordshire. [3] He also held land in Derbyshire [4], Northamptonshire, [5], Nottinghamshire, [6], Buckinghamshire [7], Leicestershire [8], Lincolnshire [9], Hertfordshire [10] and elsewhere.
1086 "discord arose between the Monastery and the Bishop upon the question of the suit and service owing to the Bishop's Hundred of Oswoldslawe ... After some preliminary pleadings before Godfrey, Bishop of Coutances, who had succeeded Odo as Justiciary of England, the cause was finally decided before the Domesday Commissioners, Remigius, Bishop of Lincoln, Walter Giffard, Henry de Ferrers, and Adam, brother of Eudo, the King's Dapifer 'qui ad inquirendum et describendum possessiones et consuetudines, pluribus aliis, ab ipso Rege destinati sunt, eo tempore, quo totam Angliam idem Rex describi fecit.'" [11]
1087-1101 Henry de Ferrieres and his wife Bertha founded a priory for Benedictine monks near Tutbury, and Henry was buried at Tutbury. "Ego Henricus de Ferrariis fundavi ecclesiam in honore sancte Dei genetricis Marie apud castellum meum Tuttesbur' pro anima W. Regis et Matild' Regine et pro salute anime patris mei et matris mee et uxoris mee Berte et filiorum meorum Engenulphi W. Roberti ac filiarum mearum ..." [12]
1066-1101 "Henricus de Ferrariis" was a "Norman, from Ferrières-Sainte-Hilaire, Eure, arr. Bernay, cant. Boglie, son of Walchelin de Ferrières ... He was a Tenant-in-Chief in 1086, especially well endowed in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, of which his descendants were earls. The caput of his fief was at Tutbury in Staffordshire, where he andhis wife Bertha founded a priory as a cell of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives sometime between 1087 and Henry's death c. 1101, and where Henry was buried. Their foundation charter named three sons, Ingenulf, W[illiam] and Robert. The name of Ingenulf may indicate that Bertha was from the family of L'Aigle. There was also a daughter Amice, wife of Nigel de Albini of Cainhoe. Henry's successor in England was his son Robert. His son Ingenulf, who was always mentioned in the numerous family confirmations for Tutbury and was clearly an important firgure in the family, probably succeeded him in Normandy, and was probably the father of Henry II, Henry's grandson and head of the Norman branch c. 1130." [13]
"Henry, assumed the surname de Ferrariis or Ferrers, from a small town in Gastenois, abounding with iron-mines. In allusion to his name, he bore six horse-shoes for his arms. He came into England with the Conqueror; and had granted to him lands in the co[untie]s. of Berks, Derby, Essex, Gloucester, Hereford, Leicester, Northampton, Nottingham, Stafford, Warwick, and Wilts. He seated himself at Tutbury-castle : and there, in 1080, he founded a monastery for Cluniac monks. By Bertha, he had issue," [14]
[1] George E. Cokayne and Vicary Gibbs, ed., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 4, Dacre to Dysart (London, St. Catherine Press, 1916), 191, citing Ordericus Vitalis, lib. iv, cap. 7, [InternetArchive].
[2] The William Salt Archaeological Society, ed., Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Vol. 6, New Series, Part II, George Wrottesley, "A History of the Family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, Co. Stafford, reprinted from "The Genealogist" (New Series, Vols. XV - XIX) (London: Harrison and Sons, 1903), 31, [GoogleBooks].
[3] Anna Powell-Smith and J. J. N. Palmer, Hull University Domesday Project, Open Domesday, staffordshire, page 06, [OpenDomesday].
[4] Anna Powell-Smith and J. J. N. Palmer, Hull University Domesday Project, Open Domesday, derbyshire, page 05, [OpenDomesday].
[5] Anna Powell-Smith and J. J. N. Palmer, Hull University Domesday Project, Open Domesday, northamptonshire, page 13, [OpenDomesday].
[6] Anna Powell-Smith and J. J. N. Palmer, Hull University Domesday Project, Open Domesday, nottinghamshire, page 24, [OpenDomesday].
[7] Anna Powell-Smith and J. J. N. Palmer, Hull University Domesday Project, Open Domesday, buckinghamshire, page 17, [OpenDomesday].
[8] Anna Powell-Smith and J. J. N. Palmer, Hull University Domesday Project, Open Domesday, leicestershire, page 07, [OpenDomesday].
[9] Anna Powell-Smith and J. J. N. Palmer, Hull University Domesday Project, Open Domesday, lincolnshire, page 36, [OpenDomesday].
[10] Anna Powell-Smith and J. J. N. Palmer, Hull University Domesday Project, Open Domesday, herefordshire, page 13, [OpenDomesday].
[11] The William Salt Archaeological Society, ed., Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Vol. 6, New Series, Part II, George Wrottesley, "A History of the Family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, Co. Stafford, reprinted from "The Genealogist" (New Series, Vols. XV - XIX) (London: Harrison and Sons, 1903), 15, [GoogleBooks].
[12] George E. Cokayne and Vicary Gibbs, ed., The Complete Peerage, rev., Vol. 4, Dacre to Dysart (London, St. Catherine Press, 1916), 191, citing Cartulary of Tutbury, transcript in Additional MSS., no. 6714, no. 51, [InternetArchive].
[13] K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of persons occurring in English documents, 1066-1166 (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1999), 247, [GoogleBooks].
[14] Charles Ferrers Palmer, The history of the town and castle of Tamworth, in the counties of Stafford & Warwick (1845), 363, [HathiTrust].