General Notes

ID: I00373
Name: Thomas DE BERKELEY
Sex: M
Birth: 1170
Death: 1243
Burial: St. Augustine's at Bristol
Note:
From Dave Berkeley's homepage athttp://www.rotwang.freeserve.co.uk/Index.html

Thomas, the fourth lord de Berkeley, like his predecessors, gave largelyto the church, and was an especial benefactor to the Abbey of Kingswood,and the church of Slimbridge, of which latter he was probably thebuilder.

King Henry III was at Berkeley Castle for three days in August 1220,being then on his way to be present at a great council at Bristol.

In 1242 war broke out with France, but was by no means popular with theEnglish people, and Parliament refused to grant the king supplies for thepurpose. Many of the royal vassals refused to go when summoned, amongstwhom was Thomas lord de Berkeley, who was fined 60 marks in consequence.He afterwards however sent Maurice his eldest son, with three knights anda proportionate retinue, and his services were so acceptable that theking rewarded them by ordering the sheriff of Gloucestershire not to levythe interest due from lord de Berkeley on 100 marks which he had borrowedfrom David the Jew of Exeter, to fit out Maurice with for the wars, andthat the unfortunate Jew should give up the bond on payment of theprincipal only.

Thomas de Berkeley died in 1243, aged 76, and was buried in St.Augustine's. His widow survived him many years, and obtained from herson, the next lord, a grant of a market and fair to the town ofWotton-under-Edge, where she resided, with many other privileges to theinhabitants, which were the foundation of the present Borough of Wotton,the old town having been destroyed by a fire in the reign of King John.[end of Dave Berkeley's info].







Father: Maurice DE BERKELEY b: 1120
Mother: Alice DE BERKELEY

Marriage 1 Joan DE SOMERY
Married: ABT. 1217
Children
Maurice DE BERKELEY