Baron Ferrers of Chartley

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The title Baron Ferrers of Chartley was created on February 6, 1299 for John de Ferrers. The daughter of the 6th Baron, Anne, married Walter Devereux who was summoned to parliament as Lord Ferrers in her right. Their descendants became Earls of Essex and so the peerage was also forfeited from 1601 to 1604. After the restoration to the title, the 12th Baron died and the peerage fell into abeyance in 1646. The abeyance was terminated in 1677 for the 1st Earl Ferrers. On the death of his grand-niece, the wife of the 5th Earl of Northampton, the peerage fell into abeyance again. When only one of the three daughters of the 14th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley remained, the abeyance of the barony was terminated for this daughter, who was the wife of the 1st Marquess Townshend. The barony remained still merged with the marquessate until the death of the 3rd Marquess, when it again fell into abeyance between the marquess's two sisters and their heirs.

[edit] Barons Ferrers of Chartley (1299)

John de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1271-1325) summoned to parliament
Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1310-1350)
John de Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1329-1367)
Robert de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1360-1413)
Edmund Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1389-1435)
William Ferrers, 6th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1412-1450)
Anne Ferrers, 7th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley (1271-1325), her husband, Walter Devereux, was summoned to parliament as Lord Ferrers in her right and died 1485.
John Devereux, 8th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1463-1501), succeeded on his father's death
Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford, 9th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1491-1558)
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, 2nd Viscount Hereford, 10th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1540-1576)
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 3rd Viscount Hereford, 11th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1567-1601), on his death the peerage was forfeited in 1601.
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, 4th Viscount Hereford, 12 Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1591-1646), restored in 1604; on his death the peerage fell into abeyance in 1646.
Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, 13th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1650-1717), abeyance terminated in 1677.
Elizabeth Compton, 14th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley (1694-1741), on her death in 1741 the peerage again fell into abeyance.
Charlotte Townshend, 15th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley (c.1710-1770) abeyance terminated in 1749
George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend, 16th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1755-1811)
George Ferrars Townshend, 3rd Marquess Townshend, 17th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (1788-1855), on his death the peerage again fell into abeyance, where it still remains.