EARLY BELKNAPS: HISTORIES and DOCUMENTS  
Elizabeth Belknap (about 1424-1471): married William de Ferrers (about 1412-1450)
Gathered here is the most comprehensive public repository of materials on the Ferrers family into which a branch of the Belknap family married.
Click on the links below to access biographical and historical information about this family:
Date(s) Item/Image Link
Chancery Records (UK National Archives)
Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Henry VI
▪ Ferrers, Elizabeth [Belknap], who was the wife of William [Ferrers] of Charteley, kt. Assignment of dower: Berks, Oxon 1450-1451 C 139/144/50
Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward IV
▪ Ferrers de Chartely, Elizabeth [Belknap], Lady de Northants 1471-1472 C 140/36/5
Printed Genealogies
▪ Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B. The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press) 1896 http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Archive:The_Ancestry_of_John_Whitney%2C_Chapter_V  
http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Archive:The_Ancestry_of_John_Whitney%2C_Chapter_VIII  
▪ The Complete Peerage, vol. __, "Ferrers of Chartley"
▪ Burke, Bernard. Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, 1883 ("Burke's Extinct Peerage"), "Ferrers of Chartley"
▪ Burke, Bernard. Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, 1883 ("Burke's Extinct Peerage"), "Ferrers of Derby"
▪ Burke, Bernard. Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, 1883 ("Burke's Extinct Peerage"), "Ferrers of Wemme"
▪ Hinson, Colin. The English Peerage or, a view of the Ancient and Present State of the English Nobility, (London, 1790), vol. II, "Devereaux, Viscount Hereford" http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/History/Barons/viscounts1.html  
▪ Report: Famille de Ferrers 2004 http://www.belnapfamily.org/Ferrers.pdf  
Visitation Records
▪ Fetherston, John, ed. The Visitation of the County of Warwick in the Year 1619 (1877), pp. 278-80.  "Devereux" http://www.belnapfamily.org/Visitation_of_the_County_of_Warwick_1619.pdf  
Land Holdings
▪ "Parish: Southoe." A History of the County of Huntingdonshire, Victoria County History, vol. 2 (1932), pp. 346-54 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42513  
▪ Parish: Lapworth." A History of the County of Warwick, Victoria County History, vol. 5: Kington hundred (1949), pp. 108-116 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57052  
▪ "Parish: Solihull." A History of the County of Warwick, Victoria County History, vol. 4: Hemlingford Hundred (1947), pp. 214-29 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42685  
Web Links
▪ Stirnet: Ferrers http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ff/ferrers1.htm  
▪ Tudor Place: Ferrers http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FERRERS.htm  
▪ de Ferrers Research Interests http://www.btinternet.com/~Russell.Robinson/Ferrers.htm  
▪ Medieval Lands: England, Earls: Derby (Ferrers) http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm  
Parents
▪ Sir Hamon Belknap (about 1380-1429)
▪ Joan Boteler (about 1398-before 1473)
Photographs and Images
▪ Ferrers Family
Last update: 11 Jul 2008
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