HOLDERS of the CASTLE of BERKELEY (II)
Roger de Berkeley, styled Junior, brother of Eusatce of Nympesfield, both being not improbably sons of the above Roger, Senior. He is said to have begun building of the Castle of Berkeley in 1117 (Lord Berkeley wrote to the then editor in 1924, expressing his opinion that the castle was not begun till about 45 years later). He d. bef. Michaelmas, 1131. [Complete Peerage II:124, XIV:86]
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1117 - Founded Berkeley Castle [Plantagenet Ancestry, Turton]