Countess Of Derby

Derby. 2 recorded holders. ← all offices

The succession the rolls themselves record for this office, earliest first — a finding aid drawn from the roll text, not an authoritative fasti. Spelling variants of one holder now fold together where the volumes' own printed indexes attest them (“Burghers” and “Burghersh” are one man when the editors say so); the opposite case — one name hiding two men — is proposed from the same indexes and from matched identities, and separates only after human confirmation. Until then a shared name lists as one holder, and the list can be checked against printed succession lists (Fasti / VCH).

1. Margaret de Ferrariis 1259–1277 ×4
   • 1277-06-26 — The like for the following touching the following fines for the following services : , The abbot of Cerne, 20/., one knight. The abbot of Rammeseye, 200 marks, …
   • 1277-07-12 — Thomas son of Lambert de Multon, 100 marks, one knight's fee. Margaret de Ferrariis, countess of Derby, 431. 6s. 8d., a third part of three knights fees and a h…
2. Margaret 1266

Ordered by the first date each holder appears with the office — where a holder is undated they sort last. Dates are the roll entries' own, not tenure dates.
Cite: “countess of Derby”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/countess-of-derby, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.