Margaret Peverell, Countess of Derby (b. circa 1114, Nottinghamshire, England), was an English noblewoman who lived at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, England.

Family and marriage

Margaret was the daughter of William Peverel the Younger of Peveril Castle in Derbyshire

Margaret Peverell, Countess of Derby

According to Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, she married Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby and thus became Countess of Derby. She was the mother of William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby and William De Ferrers, Lord of Eggington and a daughter, Petronella.{ Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages}

Margaret Peverell, Countess of Derby

She died in 1154 and was buried in Merevale Abbey.

Margaret Peverell, Countess of Derby

References

12th-century births

12th-century deaths

English countesses

12th-century English nobility

12th-century English women

People from Derbyshire

People from the Borough of East Staffordshire