Thomas "Sheepmaster" 5Th Baron BERKELEY, Sir^{[1, 2]}

1472 - 1533  (61 years)

• Name	Thomas "Sheepmaster" 5Th Baron BERKELEY  [3, 4]
  Suffix	Sir
  Nickname	Sheepmaster
  Born	1472	Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	LT63-HKG
  Name	Sheepmaster
  _UID	554FA12BB9964A9DA62C07E5C61A9DC6A7E2
  Died	22 Jan 1532-1533	Mangotsfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England   [3, 4]
  Buried	St Augustines, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
  Person ID	I13512	Carney Wehofer Feb 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)
  Married	1465	Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England   [5, 6]
  Family ID	F6526	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Eleanor CONSTABLE,   b. Abt 1485, Burton Constable, North Riding Yorkshire, England ,   d. 1525, Mangotsfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England  (Age ~ 40 years)
  Married	Between 1504 and 1505	2ND Husband 1St Wife   [3, 7]
  Children	1. Muriel BERKELEY,   b. Abt 1516, Mangotsfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. Abt 1541, Coughton, Alcester, Warwickshire, England  (Age ~ 25 years)
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2022
  Family ID	F6918	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Cicely ARNOLD,   b. Abt 1472, Llanthony, Monmouthshire, Wales ,   d. Between Jul and Nov 1558, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
  Married	1526	2ND Husband, 2ND Wife   [7, 8]
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016
  Family ID	F6916	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Thomas Berkeley [2nd son, elder brother Maurice, 4th Lord dspl 12 Sep 1523], de jure 5th Lord (Baron) Berkeley; born 1472; knighted 9 Sep 1513 at Battle of Flodden, Constable of Berkeley Castle 1514, Sheriff of Glos Nov 1522-Nov 1523, called to Parliament 9 Aug 1529 by writ worded as being to "Thomas Berkley de Berkley"; married 1st 1504/5 Eleanor (died 1525), daughter of Sir Marmaduke Constable, of Flamborough, Yorks, and widow of William Ingleby; married 2nd 1526 Cicely (died July/Nov 1558), daughter and coheir of ? Arnold and widow of Richard Rowdon, of Gloucester, and died 22 Jan 1532/3, leaving by his 1st wife. [Burke's Peerage] ------------------------------------ BARONY OF BERKELEY (V) 1523, (I) 1529 THOMAS (BERKELEY), dejure (apparently) LORD BERKELEY [1421], brother and heir, who "may bee called Thomas the Sheepmaster," he "living a kind of grazier's life, having his flocks of sheep sommering in one place and wintering in other places as hee observed the feilds and pastures to bee sound and could bargaine best cheape." He was b. 1472, probably at Thornbury, and on 9 September 1513 held a command at the battle of Flodden, receiving Knighthood the same day from the Earl of Surrey. Constable of Berkeley Castle 15 May 1514. Sheriff of co. Gloucester November 1522 to November 1523. On 9 July 1528 Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, became a trustee for his cousin Thomas Berkeley, who is then described as "Lord Berkeley, Mowbray and Segrave. On 9 August 1529 was summoned to Parliament by writ directed Thome Berkley de Berkley. He married, 1stly, 1504-05, Eleanor, widow of John INGLEBY, of Ripley co. York, daughter of Sir Marmaduke CONSTABLE, of Flamborough, co. York, by his 2nd wife Joyce, daughter of Sir Humphrey STAFFORD, of Grafton. She died 1525, and was buried at St. Augustine's, Bristol. He married, 2ndly, in 1526, Cicely, widow of Richard ROWDON, of Gloucester, daughter and coheir of, apparently (--) ARNOLD, of co. Gloucester. He died at Mangotsfield, Bristol, 22 January 1532/3, in his 61st year, and was buried at St. Augustline's. His widow, "called my Lady Cicely of Bristol," died between July and November 1558, at Bristol, and was buried at St. Augustine's. [Complete Peerage II:136-7, XIV:87, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

  
  

• Sources

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