Maurice II "Magnanimous" 2nd Baron de Berkeley 
Maurice II "Magnanimous" 2nd Baron de was born in April 1281 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. Maurice II "Magnanimous" 2nd Baron de's father was Thomas II "The Wise" 1st Baron de Berkeley and his mother was Joan de Ferrers. His paternal grandparents were Maurice I "The Resolute" de Berkeley , Sir and Isabel FitzRoy; his maternal grandparents were William III de Ferrers , 5th Earl of Derby and Margaret de Quincy. He had a brother and a sister, named Thomas III de and Margaret de. He was the second oldest of the three children. 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.General Notes
Sir Maurice de Berkeley, b. Apr 1281, d. 31 May 1326, Lord Berkeley of Berkeley Castle; m. (1) 1289, neither being over eight years of age, Eva la Zouche. [Magna Charta Sureties]
Note: They must have been married in early 1289, because Eva had to have been born bef. 25 Mar 1280 (nine months after her father's latest possible death date).
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Maurice de Berkeley, 1st/2nd Baron Berkeley; b. April 1271; took part in Scottish Wars 1295-1318; at Siege of Carlaverock July 1300, called to Parliament 1308 in his father's lifetime by a series of writs worded to him as "Maurice de Berkeley", which by a later interpretation would have meant that he was made Lord (Baron) Berkeley in a separate creation to that of his father, but in fact there is no record of his having taken his seat, Warden Gloucester 1312, Capt Berwick 1315, Commissioner to Scotland 1316, Chief Justiciar of South Wales 1316, Seneschal of Aquitaine 1320, joined the Earl of Lancaster's insurrection against Edward II and his favourites the Despensers 1321 but was captured and imprisoned in Wallingford Castle. [Burke's Peerage]
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BARONY of BERKELEY (II)
MAURICE (DE BERKELEY), LORD DE BERKELEY, son and heir, who "may bee called Maurice the Magnanimous," born April 1281 (b). He distinguished himself in the Scottish wars, 1295-1318, and was at the siege of Carlaverock in July 1300. He was summoned to Parliament v.p., from 16 August 1308 to 15 May 1321 by writs directed Mauricio de Berkeleye, whereby he may be held to have become LORD BERKELEY, though there is no actual record of his having sat in Parliament. He held several important posts, v.p., being Warden Of Gloucester, 1312; Capt. of Berwick, 1315; one of the Commissioners to Scotland, 1316; Chief Justiciar of South Wales 1316, and Seneschal of Aquitaine, 1320. Shortly afterwards he joined the Earl of Lancaster in the rebellion against Edward II and the Despenser family, and within 6 months of his father's death was sent prisoner to Wallingford Castle, 20 Jan 1321/2, where he d. about a year afterwards.
He m. 1stly 1289 (neither party being aged over 8), Eve, sister of William la Zouche (Lord Zouche of Haryngworth), and daughter of Eon la Zouche, by Millicent, sister and coheir of George de Cauntelo, Lord of Abergavenny, daughter of William de Cauntelo, of Calne, co. Wilts and Aston Cantlow, co. Warwick. She d. 6 Dec 1314, and was buried in Portbury Church, Somerset. He m. 2ndly, about 1316, Isabel, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by his 1st wife Alice, daughter of Hugh XI, called le Brun, Sire de Lusignan, Count of la Marche and Angouleme (uterine brother of Henry III). He d. as aforesaid, 31 May 1326 , and was buried at Wallingford, but removed to St. Augustine's, Bristol (c). Inq.p.m. Feb 1326/7. His widow, who was b. 10 Mar 1262/3, dsp 1333. [Complete Peerage II:128-9, XIV:87]
(b) This makes him a father at the age of 14, for which Smyth quotes the Biblical precedents of Solomon and Ahaz, each a father at 11 and of King Josiah at 14, and adds that his own "small reading could parallel more than a dozen other parents which have been Fathers and Mothers at 14 years". The date of birth appears to rest on his being found to be 40 years old in 1321 in two inquisitions on his father's death, "and" says Smyth "he best knew his own age that sett it down." It is however now recognised that the age of men in middle life being a matter of little practical importance, is seldom given with any degree of accuracy in the inquisitions. His birth (as the elder son of his parents) would more probably be in 1271 than in 1281, ie. after some 4, rather than some 14, years of their marriage.
(c) From his 2nd son, Maurice, descend the Berkeleys of Stoke Gifford, co. Gloucester (Lords Botetourt), the Berkeleys of Stratton, Cornwall (Lords Berkeley of Stratton) and the Berkeleys of Pyll, of which families the last is now (1911) represented in the male line by Viscount Portman.
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Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd baron, b. 1281, d. 1326, m. Eve, dau. of Eudo le Zouch. He received summons to parliament from 1308 to 1321, during his father's lifetime. He had issue, Thomas, 3rd baron; Sir Maurice; John, constable of Bristol Castle; Eudo; Peter; Isabel. [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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- b.~ 1095 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England d.5 FEB 1170/71 in St Augustine's Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1120 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England d.16 Jun 1190 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1099 in Gloucestershire, England d.12 MAR 1169/70 in St Michael's Hill, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (as a prioress)
- b.~ 1170 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.29 Nov 1243
- 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.~ 1145 in Dudley Castle, Warwickshire, England d.BET 1208 AND 1209
- b.1191 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d.> 1273 in St Augustine's Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1106 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1165
- b.~ 1165 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, England d.> 1242
- b.~ 1127 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun
- b.1245 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.23 Jul 1321 in St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.5 MAR 1132/33 in Le Mans, Maine, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1123 in Chateau de Belin-Beliet, Gironde, Aquitaine, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Touraine, France
- b.~ 1186 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.> 1232 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England
- b.1130 in Normandy, France d.07 May 1202 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1166 in Surrey, England
- b.1137 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1225 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England d.07 Jul 1276 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, 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.~ 1148 in Ongar, Essex, England d.> 1225
- b.~ 1198 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England d.1265 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England
- b.~ 1145 in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire, England d.1226 in Little Somborne, Hampshire, England
- b.~ 1180 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.> 1224
- b.~ 1160 in Gilsland, Irthington, Cumberland, England d.24 MAR 1216/17 in Stoke, Devonshire, England
- b.Apr 1281 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.31 May 1326 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England (as a prisoner)
- b.~ 1118 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.< 1160 in Merevale, Warwickshire, England
- b.1140 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.<21 Oct 1190 in Seige of Acre, Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.~ 1118 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1172 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.22 Sep 1247
- b.1112 in Abergavenny, Over Gwent, Monmouthshire, Wales d.< 1193 in Weobley, Herefordshire, England
- b.1150 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.AFT 5 FEB 1227/28
- b.~ 1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1193 in Derby, Derbyshire, England d.<28 Mar 1254 in Evington, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1100 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France d.16 Dec 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, England (poisoned)
- b.1147 in Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1181 in Leeke, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1117 in Gloucestershire, England. d.29 Jul 1189
- b.~ 1174 in Chester, Cheshire, England d.02 Nov 1247
- b.1117 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.13 MAR 1180/81 in France
- b.1155 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France d.12 Jul 1227 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1126 in Monmouth Castle, Gloucestershire, England d.~ 1164
- b.1248 in Derby, Derbyshire, England d.19 MAR 1309/10 in St Augustine Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1138 in Long Buckley, England, Northamptonshire, England d.<29 Sep 1198
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt, on way to Holy Land
- b.~ 1135 in Leuchars, Fifes, Scotland d.<Jun 1203
- b.1174 in Winchester, Hamptonshire, England d.25 Apr 1264 in Buckley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.< 1135 in Leicestershire, England d.31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo, Greece (went on crusade 1179)
- b.1154 in Leicestershire, England d.ABT 12 JAN 1234/35 in England
- b.~ 1130 in Leicestershire, England d.01 Apr 1212 in Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1223 in Winchester, Hamptonshire, England d.BEF 12 MAR 1280/81
- b.1164 in Galloway, Perthshire Scotland d.19 Dec 1200 in Northamptonshire, England
- b.1186 in Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland d.1234 in Abbey of Dundren, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
- b.~ 1170 in Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England d.11 Jun 1217 in Abbey of Dundren, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
- b.~ 1208 in Carrick, Argyllshire, Scotland d.>21 Nov 1245 in England
- b.~ 1176 in Ulster, Ireland d.<26 Dec 1242 in Franciscan Friars Convent, Carrickfergus, Ireland
- b.~ 1194 in Ulster, Ireland
- b.~ 1175 in Alton, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England d.< 1234 in Ulster, Ireland
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Maurice II "Magnanimous" 2nd Baron de and Eva were married in a religious ceremony in 1289 in 1st wife. They had two sons and three daughters, named Thomas IV "The Rich" 3rd Baron de, Maurice, Eleanore, Milicent (Ela) de and Isabel de.
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Children
Thomas IV "The Rich" 3rd Baron de Berkeley
Thomas IV "The Rich" 3rd Baron de was born before 1296 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. He died on October 27th, 1361 in Berkeley Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Eleanore Berkeley
Eleanore was born about 1297 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. She died on March 31st, 1368 in Eshott, Northumberland, England.
Maurice Berkeley , of Stoke Gifford & Uley, Sir
Maurice was born in 1298 in Stoke Gifford, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England. He died in Calais, France.
Milicent (Ela) de Berkeley
Milicent (Ela) de was born about 1300 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. She died after 1322.
Isabel de Berkeley
Isabel de was born about 1310 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. She died on July 25th, 1362.
Maurice II "Magnanimous" 2nd Baron de and Isabel de were married in a religious ceremony in 1316 in 2nd husband 2nd wife.
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