Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley

Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley
Effigy of Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley(d.1326) "The Magnanimous", St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol (Bristol Cathedral)
Effigy of Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley(d.1326) "The Magnanimous", St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol (Bristol Cathedral). The Berkeley arms are visible on his shield
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Armorial of Berkeley: Gules, a chevron between 10 crosses pattée 6 in chief and 4 in base argent

Maurice Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley (Berkeley, Gloucestershire, April 1271 - Wallingford Castle, 31 May 1326), sometimes termed The Magnanimous, was an English baron and rebel.

Born at Berkeley in the English county of Gloucestershire, he was the son of Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley (d. 1321), and Joan de Ferrers (1255-1309). He was involved in the Scottish Wars from about 1295 to 1318. He acceded on 16 August 1308, was Governor of Gloucester 1312, Governor of Berwick-on-Tweed from 1314 which he lost to the Scots under the 1317 Capture of Berwick , Steward of the Duchy of Aquitaine 1319 and Justiciar of South Wales 1316. With the Earl of Lancaster, he rebelled against King Edward II, for which he was imprisoned in Wallingford Castle in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), where he died on 31 May 1326 and was eventually buried at St Augustine's Abbey in Bristol.

He married: 1. Eva la Zouche, daughter of Eon la Zouche and Millicent de Cauntelo in 1289, with children:

  • Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley, born c. 1296
  • Sir Maurice de Berkeley(1298-1347), of Uley, Gloucester. Killed at the Siege of Calais in 1347. Acquired Stoke Gifford in 1337, and founded the line of Berkeley of Stoke Gifford.
  • Isabel de Berkeley
  • Milicent de Berkeley

2. Isabella de Clare, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and Alice de Lusignan, about 1316. [Note: The link to Isabella de Clare is to the wrong Isabella de Clare.]

His son, Thomas, succeeded his father as the 3rd Baron Berkeley.

References

  • Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis, 1992, seventh edition.
  • Ancestral roots of sixty colonists who came to New England 1623-1650. Frederick Lewis Weis (earlier edition).
  • Magna Charta Sureties, 1215., Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., William R. Beall, 1999, 5th Ed.
  • Magna Charta Sureties, 1215", Frederick Lewis Weis, 4th Ed.
  • The Complete Peerage, Cokayne.
  • Burke's Peerage, 1938.
  • Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, David Faris, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996.
  • Royal Genealogy information held at University of Hull.

External links

Peerage of England
Preceded by
Thomas de Berkeley
Baron Berkeley
1321-1326
Succeeded by
Thomas de Berkeley

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