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Sir MAURICE BERKELEY, , of Stoke Gifford & Uley
1298 - 1346 (48 years)
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Name MAURICE BERKELEY Prefix Sir Suffix , of Stoke Gifford & Uley Birth 1298 Stoke Gifford, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England 
Gender Male Death 12 Feb 1346 Calais, France Person ID I54473 Hamm Last Modified 16 Jun 2008
Father Sir MAURICE II "MAGNANIMOUS" DE BERKELEY, , 2nd Baron Berkeley, b. Apr 1271, Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d. 31 May 1326, Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England (Age ~ 55 years) Mother EVA LA ZOUCHE, b. Bef 25 Mar 1280, Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England d. 5 Dec 1314, Portbury, Somerset, England (Age > 34 years) Marriage 1289 Family ID F24205 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family MARGERY DE VERE, b. Abt 1310, Great Hormead, Royston, Hertfordshire, England Marriage 29 Dec 1331 Papal Dispensation Date Children + 1. MAURICE BERKELEY, , of Stoke Gifford, b. 1332, Stoke Gifford, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England d. Jul 1361 (Age 29 years)Family ID F25154 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Sep 2021
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Notes - ! 1. MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., of Uley, Elberton, Kings Weston, Rockhampton, Stoke Gifford, co. Gloucester, Kingston Seymour, Somerset, Milston and Brigmerston (in Milston), co. Wilts, etc., Steward of the Duchy of Aquitaine, younger son. He married by papal dispensation dated 29 Dec. 1331 (they being related in the 4th degree of kidnred) MARGERY DE VERE, evidently daughter of Alphonse de Vere, Knt., of Aston Sandford, co. Buckingham, and Great Hormead, co. Hertford, by Joan, said to be a daughter of Richard Foliot, Knt. His lands were seized by King Edward II when his father rebelled against the king and the Despensers. With his elder brother, Thomas, he pillaged Despenser property. He had restitution of his lands after the fall of the Despensers. He served King Edward III in France, was created a knight banneret in 15 Edw. III, and fought at the battle of Crécy in 1346. SIR MAURICE DE BERKELEY was at the siege of Calais, where he died testate 12 Feb. 1346/7. His memory is commemorated in the great east window of Gloucester Cathedral in the display of shields of the knights who fought in the Crécy and Calais campaigns of 1346 and 1347. His widow died 21 May 1351.
References:
T. Blore, Hist. & Antiq. of the County of Rutland 1 Pt. 2 (1811): 210 (Berkeley pedigree).
John Smyth, Berkeley Manuscripts: Lives of the Berkeleys 1 (1883): 245-254.
Cal. of Entries in the Papal Registers: Letters 2 (1895): 368.
T.S. Holmes, Register of Ralph of Shrewsbury Bishop of Bath & Wells, 1329-1363
(Somerset Rec. Soc., vol. 10) (1896): 543. Cal. Patent Rolls, 1334-1338 (1895), pp. 3,428,519.
Cal. Patent Rolls, 1345-1348 (1903), pg. 368.
Cal. Close Rolls, 1346-1349 (pub. 1905), pp. 198,201,225.
C.P. 2 (1912): 129-130.
Paget (1957) 55:2.
List of Inquisitions ad Quod Damnum 2 (PRO, Lists and Indexes, No. 22) (repr. 1963): 274.
VCH Gloucester 4 (1988): 279.
VCH Wiltshire 15 (1995): 138-139,237,257.
!Sir Maurice de Berkeley married by papal dispensation dated 29 Dec. 1331 Margery de Vere, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred [Reference: Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers, 2 (1895): 368.
- ! 1. MAURICE DE BERKELEY, Knt., of Uley, Elberton, Kings Weston, Rockhampton, Stoke Gifford, co. Gloucester, Kingston Seymour, Somerset, Milston and Brigmerston (in Milston), co. Wilts, etc., Steward of the Duchy of Aquitaine, younger son. He married by papal dispensation dated 29 Dec. 1331 (they being related in the 4th degree of kidnred) MARGERY DE VERE, evidently daughter of Alphonse de Vere, Knt., of Aston Sandford, co. Buckingham, and Great Hormead, co. Hertford, by Joan, said to be a daughter of Richard Foliot, Knt. His lands were seized by King Edward II when his father rebelled against the king and the Despensers. With his elder brother, Thomas, he pillaged Despenser property. He had restitution of his lands after the fall of the Despensers. He served King Edward III in France, was created a knight banneret in 15 Edw. III, and fought at the battle of Crécy in 1346. SIR MAURICE DE BERKELEY was at the siege of Calais, where he died testate 12 Feb. 1346/7. His memory is commemorated in the great east window of Gloucester Cathedral in the display of shields of the knights who fought in the Crécy and Calais campaigns of 1346 and 1347. His widow died 21 May 1351.