Maurice "The Magnanimous" De BERKELEY, Sir/Lord

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• AFN: 9220-1S
• Name: The Magnanimous
• _UID: 950484BCDCD947C9998B1F8A42A3DE7FADF7

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MARRIAGE: 1289, neither being over 8 years of age.

OCCUPATION: Lord Berkeley of Berkeley CastleMaurice de Berkeley, 2nd baron, b. 1281, d. 1326, m. Eve, dau. of Eudo le Zouch. He received summons to parliament from 1308 to 1321, during his father's lifetime. He had issue, Thomas, 3rd baron; Sir Maurice; John, constable of Bristol Castle; Eudo; Peter; Isabel. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 44, Berkeley, Viscount Berkeley, Earl of Nottingham, and Marquess of Berkeley]

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Maurice married Eva La ZOUCHE in 1289 in (His 1St Marr., Both Under 8 Yrs). Eva was born in in Of Haryngworth, Northampton, Eng (Bef 1/8/1289); died on 15 Dec 1314. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Milicent (Ela) De BERKELEY died after 1322.
2. Thomas "The Rich" De BERKELEY, 3rd Lord was born cal 1293 in Berkeley, Glouchester, England; died on 27 Oct 1361 in Berkeley, Glouchester, England.
3. Maurice De BERKELEY, Sir was born about 1298 in Berkeley, Glouchester, England; died on 12 Feb 1346 in Calais, Pas-DE-Calais, France.
4. Isabel De BERKELEY was born in 1307 in Berkeley, Glouchester, England; died on 25 Jul 1362 in Hartley Castle, Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland, England.

Maurice married Isabel DE CLARE, Ctss Warwick in 1316. Isabel (daughter of Gilbert I "The Red Earl" De CLARE, Sir Knight/9Th Earl/Gloucester and Alice (Alfais) Le Brun De LUSIGNAN, Ctss/Lady) was born on 10 Mar 1262-1263 in Winchcomb, Gloucester, ENG; died in 1338 in Elmley, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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--- Michael Altschul, *A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares,
1217-1314*, Baltimore MD (Johns Hopkins Press) 1965. p 39-40:

"Earl Gilbert the Red left a son and five daughters. Of his daughters by Alice de Lusignan, the elder, Isabella, was born in 1263. In 1297 she was betrothed to Guy, son and heir of William de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick. Guy de Beachamp succeeded his father as earl in 1298, but the projected marriage, although still pending, never took place. Not until 1216 was Isabella married, at the advanced age of fifty-three, to the Gloucestershire baron Maurice de Berkeley, and she died without issue in 1338.