Maurice I "The Resolute" de Berkeley , Sir 
Maurice I "The Resolute" de was born in 1218 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. Maurice I "The Resolute" de's father was Thomas I "The Observer" de Berkeley , Sir and his mother was Joan de Somery. His paternal grandparents were Maurice "Make Peace" FitzHarding , Lord Berkeley and Alice de Berkeley; his maternal grandparents were Ralph de Somery , Lord of Dudley & Dinas Powis and Margaret FitzGilbert Marshal. He was an only child. He died at the age of 63 on April 4th, 1281 in St Augustine's Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.General Notes
Maurice, feudal Lord of Berkeley; knighted by 1242, joined baronial rebellion against Henry III. [Burke's Peerage]
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HOLDERS of the CASTLE of BERKELEY (VIII)
MAURICE DE BERKELEY, feudal LORD OF BERKELEY, son and heir, who " may bee called Maurice the Resolute," born 1218. He attended the wars with France and afterwards with North Wales. Was knighted before 1242. He did homage and had livery of his father's lands, 14 December 1243. He joined the Barons against the King in 1264, was present at the award of Kenilworth in 1267, at the Council at Marlborough 52 Henry III, and at the various assemblies (1275-79) 3, 4, 6, and 7 Edward I. He married, before 12 July 1247, Isabel, daughter of Richard FITZROY (illegitimate son of King John), by Rose, daughter and heir of Foubert de Douvres. On 10 August 1264, the King, out of compassion for the poverty of his niece, Isabel, the wife of Maurice de Berkeley, granted her certain manors. She died 7 July, probably in the year 1276 or 1277, and was buried at St. Augustine's. He died 4 April 1281, aged 63, " being his great clymactericoll yeare, " and was buried at St. Augustine's. [Complete Peerage II:131, XIV:87, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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Maurice de Berkeley m. in 1240, Isabel, dau. of Maurice de Credonia, by his wife, Isabel, sister of William de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, d. 4 April, 1281, and was s. by his 2nd son, the eldest, Maurice, having been killed in a tournament at Kenilworth. [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
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‌Maurice I "The Resolute" de and Isabel were married in a religious ceremony before July 12th, 1247. They had a son and a daughter, named Thomas II "The Wise" 1st Baron de and Alice.
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Children
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. He died at the age of 76 on July 23rd, 1321 in St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
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