Maurice "The Courtier" 4Th Baron BERKELEY, Sir^[1]

1467 - 1523  (56 years)

• Name	Maurice "The Courtier" 4Th Baron BERKELEY  [2]
  Suffix	Sir
  Nickname	The Courtier
  Birth	1467	Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	L8PF-Y9X
  Name	The Courtier
  _UID	671E8862DC4C47BCA89D53B78D1D772F394A
  Death	12 Sep 1523	Calais, France (Dsp Legit)   [2]
  Burial	Trinity Chapel, Calais, France
  Person ID	I12882	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Maurice BERKELEY OF THORNBURY, Esq.,   b. Abt 1435, Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d. Sep 1506, Mangotsfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (Age ~ 71 years)
  Mother	Isabel MEAD,   b. Abt 1444, Mead's Place, Wraxell, Somerset, England d. Aft 29 May 1514, Coventry, Warwickshire, England (Age ~ 70 years)
  Marriage	1465	Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F6526	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katherine BERKELEY,   b. Abt 1469, Stoke Gifford, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England d. 6 Sep 1526, Dartford, Kent, England, (Age ~ 57 years)
  Marriage	28 Jan 1484-1485	Contract Date   [5]
  Family ID	F6482	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  BARONY of BERKELEY (IV) 1506 MAURICE (BERKELEY), de jure (apparently) LORD BERKELEY [1421], son and heir, who "may bee called Maurice the Courtier," was born 1467, probably at Thornbury. Keeper of Kingswood Forest 1508 K.B. at the coronation, 23 June 1509; Sheriff of co. Gloucester 1509-10, and 1515-16. residing principally at Yate, co. Gloucester; Sheriff of cos. Leicester and Warwick 1516-17. Knight of the body to Henry VIII, 13 April 1512; Marshal of the Army for Spain, 1512; Captain in the army in France, 1513 and again 1523. Lieutenant of Calais 1520. He is said to have been summoned to the Parliament of 15 April 1523 (at which time he was still abroad), and to have been advised to accept the honour, though the intention, apparently, was to place him as junior Baron. He, however, never took his seat. He married (contract 28 January 1484/5) Katharine, daughter of Sir William BERKELEY, of Stoke Gifford, co. Gloucester, by Ann, daughter of Sir Humphrey STAFFORD, she being then not much under 17. He died s.p. legit., 12 September 1523 at Calais, and was buried in Trinity chapel within the parish church there. His widow died " not full three years " afterwards, and was buried at Yate. [Complete Peerage II:135-36, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

  
  

• Sources

  [S579] Jim Weber. [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, II:135-6 (Reliability: 3). [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 66-9, 28b-11 (Reliability: 3). [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, II:135 (Reliability: 3). [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, II:136 (Reliability: 3).