Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Robert de Ferrers

View famous kin of Robert de Ferrers

• • 15th Great-grandfather of William Howard Taft — 18th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 150150 
  • Father:
  • Robert de Ferrers 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Botiller   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1373 
  • Birth Location:
  • Willisham, Suffolk, England 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • BY 29 Nov 1396 
  • Death Location:
  •  
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joan Beaufort
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 30 Sep 1390 
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Ferrers

  Elizabeth Ferrers (Ahnentafel No:75075 )

  • Notes: 
  • 3rd Lord Ferrers.

    2nd Lord Ferrers of Wem

• Sources for Robert de Ferrers

  • ¹ Adams, Arthur, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (1964), 86.
  • ² Lee, Sydney, ed., Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 40, Myllar - Nicholls, New York: MacMillan and Company (1894), 277.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), 15.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "A Second Update to Ancestors of American Presidents", (accessed 03/04/2016).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 217, 220, 235.
  • ⁶ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 6.