Thomas II "The Wise" 1st Baron de Berkeley 
Thomas II "The Wise" 1st Baron de was born in 1245 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. Thomas II "The Wise" 1st Baron de's father was Maurice I "The Resolute" de Berkeley , Sir and his mother was Isabel FitzRoy. His paternal grandparents were Thomas I "The Observer" de Berkeley , Sir and Joan de Somery; his maternal grandparents were Richard FitzRoy , Baron of Chilham and Rose de Douvers , Heiress of Chilham. He had a sister named Alice. He was the older of the two children. He died at the age of 76 on July 23rd, 1321 in St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.General Notes
Thomas de Berkeley, feudal Lord of Berkeley and 1st Baron Berkeley so created by writ of summons to Parliament 24 June 1295; V-Constable England 1297, present at the victory over the Scots of Falkirk 22 July 1298 and at Siege of Carlaverock July 1300, taken prisoner at Scottish victory of Bannockburn 24 June 1314, Commissioner to examine claims to the crown of Scotland June 1292. [Burke's Peerage]
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Sir Thomas de Berkeley, b. 1245, d. 23 July 1321, son of Maurice de Berkeley, b. 1218, d. 1281, and Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Roy, bastard son of King John of England. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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BARONY of BERKELEY (I)
THOMAS DE BERKELEY, feudal LORD OF BERKELEY, 2nd, but 1st surviving son and heir (c), who "may bee called Thomas the Wise." He was born at Berkeley 1245, was at the battle of Evesham when under age, and was for nearly every year for the last 50 years of his life "employed either against the Welsh., the Scots, or the French." He was summoned to attend the King at Shrewsbury 28 June 1283 by writ directed 'Thome de Berkel', which writ was actually treated in the Mowbray case (1877) as one which created an hereditary Peerage. On 24 June 1295, he was summoned to Parliament by writ directed Thome de Berkelegh', whereby he may be held to have become LORD BERKELEY. He continued to be so summoned till 15 May 1321. He was made Vice-Constable of England in 1297, was at the bloody battle and defeat of the Scots at Falkirk 22 July 1298, the siege of Carlaverock in July 1300, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Bannockburn, 24 June 1314, paying a large sum for his ransom. He was likewise on the Commission to examine the claims to the Crown of Scotland, June 1292; was on an Embassy to France, January 1296, and to Pope Clement V, in July 1307. He married, in 1267, Joan, da. of William (DE FERRERS), EARL OF DERBY, by his 2nd wife, Margaret, daughter and coheir of Roger (DE QUINCI), EARL OF WINCHESTER. She died in March 1309/10, and was buried at St. Augustine's, Bristol. He died 23 July 1321, at Berkeley, aged about 76. [Complete Peerage II:127-8, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(c) Maurice, his elder brother, was killed in a tournament at Kenilworth, vp in 1279.
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Thomas de Berkeley, b. at Berkeley in 1245, was summoned to parliament by writ as a baron from 23 June 1295 to 15 May 1321. This nobleman was of great eminence in the reigns of Edward I and and Edward II, being in the French, Welsh, and Scottish wars of those periods, particularly at the celebrated siege of Caerlaverock. He was involved, however, at the close of his life in the treason of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. His lordship m. circa 1267 Jane, dau. of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, and dying July 23, 1321 (his wife d. 19 Mar 1309], left issue,
I. Maurice, 2nd baron
II. Thomas, ancestor of the Berkeleys of Wymondham, co. Leicester, extinct in Sir Henry Berkeley, living 1622.
III. John, d. s. p. 10th Edward II [c. 1317]
IV. James, a bishop
I. Isabel, d. unm.
II. Margaret, d. unm.
[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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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1060 in Gloucestershire, England d.> 1125 in Baldwinstreet, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1095 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England d.5 FEB 1170/71 in St Augustine's Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1073 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1120 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England d.16 Jun 1190 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1050 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1099 in Gloucestershire, England d.12 MAR 1169/70 in St Michael's Hill, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (as a prioress)
- b.~ 1076 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1170 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.29 Nov 1243
- b.~ 1073 in Berkeley, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.<29 Sep 1131 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1105 in Berkeley, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.1170 in Dursley, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1140 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.>16 Jun 1190
- b.1218 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.04 Apr 1281 in St Augustine's Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1125 in Little Crawley, Buckinghamshire, England d.< 1195
- b.~ 1151 in Dudley Castle, Warwickshire, England d.1211 in Dinas, Cardigan, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1100 in Dudley Castle, Warwickshire, England d.< 1153
- b.~ 1145 in Dudley Castle, Warwickshire, England d.BET 1208 AND 1209
- b.1100 in Greenham, Newbury, Berkshire, England
- b.1191 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d.> 1273 in St Augustine's Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1075 in Somerset, England d.< 1130
- b.~ 1106 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1165
- b.~ 1090 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1165 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, England d.> 1242
- b.1100 in Chitterne, Wiltshire, England d.1147 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1127 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun
- b.1100 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England d.1147 in Near The Choir, Braenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.1245 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.23 Jul 1321 in St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.5 MAR 1132/33 in Le Mans, Maine, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.FEB 1102/03 in London, Middlesex, England d.10 Sep 1167 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1099 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.09 Apr 1137 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- b.1123 in Chateau de Belin-Beliet, Gironde, Aquitaine, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Touraine, France
- b.~ 1105 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France d.AFT MAR 1130/31
- b.~ 1186 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.> 1232 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.1130 in Normandy, France d.07 May 1202 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.1112 in France d.10 Sep 1169 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Normandy
- b.~ 1166 in Surrey, England
- b.~ 1119 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.19 JAN 1147/48 in Laodicea, Holy Lands (dspm)
- b.1137 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1120 in Alencon, Orne, Normandy, France d.04 Oct 1174
- b.~ 1225 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England d.07 Jul 1276 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1120 in Chilham, Kent, England
- b.1146 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England d.< 1198
- b.~ 1178 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England d.1205 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England
- b.1125 in Dunmow, Essex, England d.< 1178 in Newington, Kent, England
- b.~ 1148 in Ongar, Essex, England d.> 1225
- b.1130 in England
- b.~ 1198 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England d.1265 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England
- b.~ 1109 in Stoke, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1145 in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire, England d.1226 in Little Somborne, Hampshire, England
- b.~ 1120 in England
- b.~ 1180 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.> 1224
- b.~ 1142 in Gilsland, Irthington, Cumberland, England d.1165
- b.~ 1160 in Gilsland, Irthington, Cumberland, England d.24 MAR 1216/17 in Stoke, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1143 in England
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‌Thomas II "The Wise" 1st Baron de and Joan de were married in a religious ceremony in 1267. They had two sons and a daughter, named Maurice II "Magnanimous" 2nd Baron de, Thomas III de and Margaret de.
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Children
Margaret de Berkeley
Margaret de was born about 1270 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Maurice II "Magnanimous" 2nd Baron de Berkeley
Maurice II "Magnanimous" 2nd Baron de was born in April 1281 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. He died at the age of 45 on May 31st, 1326 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England (as a prisoner). He was buried in St Augustine's Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
Thomas III de Berkeley , of Coston, Sir
Thomas III de was born about 1283 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. He died before April 1346 in Coston, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England.
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