Walter Devereux, Lord Ferrers of Chartley

Walter Devereux, jure uxoris 7th Baron Ferrers of Chartley KG (c. 1432 – 22 August 1485) was a minor member of the English peerage and a loyal supporter of the Yorkist cause during the Wars of the Roses. He was a member of Edward IV's inner circle, and died fighting for Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth,.

Walter was born about 1432 in Weobley, Herefordshire. His parents were Sir Walter Devereux, Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1449 to 1450, and his wife Elizabeth Merbury.

His mother was the daughter and heiress of Sir John Merbury, Chief Justice of South Wales, and his first wife, Alice Pembridge.

About 1446, at the age of only thirteen, Walter married Anne de Ferrers, daughter of William de Ferrers 6th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, and became Baron Ferrers of Chartley in right of his wife on 26 July 1461. She predeceased him by seventeen years on 9 January 1469, and they had at least six children:

Devereux married secondly a woman named Jane, but they had no children. She survived him, and married secondly to Thomas Vaughan; thirdly to Sir Edward Blount of Sodington; and finally to Thomas Poyntz, Esq., of Alderley, Gloucestershire She was living in 1522.

On 6 November 1450 the escheator of Buckinghamshire was instructed to deliver the manor of Dorton to Elizabeth, widow of the late Baron Ferrers of Chartley. Inquisition demonstrated that her heir was Anne, wife of Walter Devereux. His father was attainted for treason in 1452 for supporting Richard, Duke of York, on his march to London, and confrontation with the king at Dartford Heath. On 6 March 1453 he attended Parliament as Lord Ferrers, and represented Herefordshire in place of his father. On 17 March 1453 Walter and Anne Devereux were granted livery of her father’s lands as she was 14 years of age or older.