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Maurice BERKELEY OF THORNBURY, Esq.

Maurice BERKELEY OF THORNBURY, Esq.[1, 2]

Male Abt 1435 - 1506  (~ 71 years)

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  • Name Maurice BERKELEY OF THORNBURY  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    Suffix Esq. 
    Born Abt 1435  Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Gender Male 
    Conveyance of property 1471  Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Philip Meade, Burgess of Bristol, and Richard his son and heir conveyed to Maurice and his wife Isabel (daughter of the said Philip), a tenement in Thornbury, Gloucestershire called Marshallis place with close and garden attached." 
    FamilySearch ID KZPJ-VC3 
    succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Berkeley 14 Feb 1491  [10] 
    Name The Lawyer 
    Residence Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    _UID 67D81C3329614BBBB30D83F8A3891D11B31E 
    Died Sep 1506  Mangotsfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Buried Austin Friar's, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I12950  Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 13 Dec 2022 

    Father James "The Just" 1St Baron De BERKELEY, Sir,   b. Abt 1394, Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 1463, Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Mother Isabel De MOWBRAY,   b. Abt 1396, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Sep 1452, Gloucester Castle (As A Prisoner Of Margaret DE Beauchamp) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 56 years) 
    Alt. Marriage Abt 1420  [11] 
    Married Between 1423 and 1424  2ND Husband 3Rd Wife Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13, 14] 
    Family ID F6529  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Isabel MEAD,   b. Abt 1444, Mead's Place, Wraxell, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 29 May 1514, Coventry, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Married 1465  Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 15] 
    Children 
     1. Maurice "The Courtier" 4Th Baron BERKELEY, Sir,   b. 1467, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Sep 1523, Calais, France (Dsp Legit) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)
     2. Katherine BERKELEY,   b. Abt 1469, Stoke Gifford, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Sep 1526, Dartford, Kent, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 57 years)
     3. Thomas "Sheepmaster" 5Th Baron BERKELEY, Sir,   b. 1472, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jan 1532-1533, Mangotsfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)
     4. Anne De BERKELEY,   b. 1474, Mangotsfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Joyce BERKELEY,   b. 1476, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1481  (Age 5 years)
     6. James BERKELEY,   b. Abt 1476, Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1515  (Age ~ 40 years)
     7. Mary "Anne" BERKELEY,   b. 1511, Madresfield, , England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1585, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)
    Last Modified 13 Dec 2022 
    Family ID F6526  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Note: Though Maurice Berkeley inherited the title of Baron from his elder brother William, the 2nd Baron, William had given Berkeley Castle to the crown: Henry VII (and his male heirs). The family did not get the Castle back until after the death of Edward VI of England in 1553. Some say that William gave the Castle and most of the rest of the huge Berkeley estate away partly because he disapproved of his nephew & heir, Maurice's marriage to Isabel Mead, as it was below his station.

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      Maurice Berkeley, de jure 3rd Lord (Baron ) Berkeley (after his elder brother William, the 2nd Lord and 1st and last Marquess Berkeley whose male children all died without issue); Knight of the Body to Edward IV; married 1465 Isabel (died after 29 May 1514), daughter of Philip Mead, of Mead's Place, Wraxall, Somerset, Alderman and thrice Mayor of Bristol, and died Sep 1506. [Burke's Peerage]

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      Maurice Berkeley, b. c 1435, age 56 in 1492, d. Sep 1506, age 70 years, 2nd son, Lord Berkeley; m. 1465 Isabel Mead, d. Coventry, aft. May 1514, age 70, daughter of Philip Mead, Mayor of Bristol. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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      BARONY of BERKELEY (III) 1492

      MAURICE [BERKELEY] de jure [apparently] LORD BERKELEY [1421] brother of the whole blood and heir, who "may bee called Maurice: the Lawier " inasmuch as though totally disinherited by his brother, and though 56 years of age at his brother's death, he recovered, within 7 years, upwards of 50 manors and other lands, the alienation of which had been effected illegally. He had been Knight of the body to Edward IV.

      He married, in his 30th year (1465), Isabel (at that time a widow with 3 children who all died young), only daughter of Philip MEAD, of Mead's Place, in Wraxall, Somerset, Alderman, and three times (1458-59, 1461-62, 1468-69) Mayor of Bristol, by Isabel, his wife. She became heir to her brother Thomas Mead, inheriting lands at Thornbury, co. Gloucester, and at Wraxall, Ashton, Bedminster, and Tickeiiham, Somerset. He died September 1506, aged 70, and was buried at Austin Friars, London. His widow died after 29 May 1514, at the same age of 70, at Coventry, and was buried with him. [Complete Peerage II:135, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Berkeley,_3rd_Baron_Berkeley
      "Because of his marriage to Isabel Meade, the daughter of a Bristol alderman, who was considered to be below his social status, Maurice was disinherited by his elder brother William Berkeley, 1st Marquess of Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley (1426? 1492), who died without surviving progeny. As he never therefore possessed Berkeley Castle, he had no claim to the ancient feudal barony of Berkeley, which was dependant on landholdings."

      The late lord's brother, now stripped of the ancient honours and possessions of his forefathers, (though he continued through his life to be styled by courtesy Lord Berkeley,) resided, as has been stated, at Thornbury, where, of his own and his wife's, he had a fair estate.

      As soon as the inquisitions after his brother's death were returned into Chancery, Maurice commenced proceedings to recover from the Crown some of the manors which the Marquess had given away, being advised that such alienations were illegal, and contrary to some old settlements and entails. In these litigations he was generally successful, the late Marquess, in his anxiety to barter his lands for honours and patronage, having often overlooked the nature of the titles by which he held them. Maurice's first success was the recovery of the manor of Sages in Slimbridge, consisting of seven tenements and 290 acres of land, and he entered into possession and held his first court there in 1499. Many other similar suits followed, with the like success, and while these were going on the manor and borough of Tetbury, and several others descended to him as one of the heirs of the lord Breouse. In 1505 he claimed and recovered the advowson of the Church of Wotton-under-Edge, but immediately made it over to the Abbey of Tewkesbury. He also commenced a suit to recover the advowson of Slimbridge, held by Magdalen College, Oxford, which was settled by a compromise. The College retaining the advowson but paying him a sum of money, and undertaking to remember him in their prayers.

      In his journeys to and from London, and when visiting his manor of Callowden, near Coventry, finding that heand his suite were not received at the Monastery of Combe, in Warwickshire, with the honour and respect due to him as descendant from one of its founders, Maurice exhibited a bill in Chancery against the Abbot and Monks, claiming his rights in respect of his descent from Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, their founder, and obtained an acknowledgement of his claim.

      Maurice died in 1506, and was buried in the Church of the Augustine Friars, in London. His eldest son, Maurice, succeeded him.

      (Find A Grave Memorial# 67514712)
      SIR MAURICE BERKELEY de jure 3rd BARON BERKELEY "the Lawier" was born about 1436 of Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England, to Sir James de Berkeley, "The Just," 1st Baron Berkeley (1394-1463) and Isabella Mowbray (1396-1452.) He married Lady Isabel Meade, about 1465 of Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England.


      BERKELEY CASTLE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND

      Maurice Berkely was disinherited by his brother, and though 56 years of age at his brother's death, was able to recover, within seven years, upwards of 50 manors and other lands that had been alienated illegally.

      Maurice Berkeley died in September 1506 of Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England, age 70. He is buried at Church of the Augustine Friars, London.

      LADY ISABEL MEADE was born about 1444 of Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, to Sir Philip Meade (1415-1471) and Lady Isabel Sharp (1420-1444). She married Maurice Berkeley about 1465 of Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England.

      Isabel inherited lands at Thornbury, Gloucestersire, and at Wraxall, Ashton, Bedminister, and Tickenham, Somerset from her brother, Thomas.

      Isabel Meade passed away 29 May 1514, at Coventry, Warwickshire, England, age 30. She was buried at Augustine Friars Church, London, England.


      Children of Maurice Berkeley and Isabel Meade:

      1. Maurice Berkeley, 4th Baron de Berkeley (1467)
      2.Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron de Berkeley (1472-)
      3.James Berkeley of Thornbury
      4.Anne DE BERKELEY (1474-1523)

  • Sources 
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    2. [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.

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    5. [S138] The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968.

    6. [S289] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles M o s l e y Editor-in-Chief, 1999, 26 May 2003., 256 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S845] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, 209-37 (Reliability: 3).

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