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. Thomas IV "The Rich" 3rd Baron de's father was Maurice II "Magnanimous" 2nd Baron de Berkeley and his mother was Eva la Zouche. His paternal grandparents were Thomas II "The Wise" 1st Baron de Berkeley and Joan de Ferrers; his maternal grandparents were Eudo (Eon) la Zouche , of Haryngworth and Milicent de Cantelou. He had a brother and three sisters, named Maurice, Eleanore, Milicent (Ela) de and Isabel de. He was the oldest of the five children. He died on October 27th, 1361 in Berkeley Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England.General Notes
Thomas de Berkeley, age 30+ at father's death, d. 27 Oct 1361, Lord Berkeley, Marshal in France 1340, Captain of the Scottish Marches 1342; m. (1) 1320, Margaret de Mortimer, d. 5 May 1337, daughter of Sir Roger de Mortimer, Earl of March and Joan de Geneville; m. (2) 30 May 1347, Katherine, d. 13 Mar 1385, widow of Sir Piers le Veel, daughter and heir of Sir John Clivedon, of Charfield, co. Gloucester, by Emma his wife. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley; knighted before 1322, joined with his father in Lancaster's insurrection, imprisoned until 16 Oct 1326, later Jt Custodian of Edward II 4 April 1327 but guessing what was in store for the deposed king left Berkeley Castle before the actual regicide, tried by jury of 12 knights 1330/1 as accessory to Edward's murder but acquitted, Chief Warden Glos, Worcs, and Herefs, Marshal English Army in France 1342, Capt Scottish Marches, Warden and Chief Justice in Eyre South of Trent 1345-48. [Burke's Peerage]
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BARONY of BERKELEY (III)
Thomas de Berkeley, Lord Berkeley, son and heir by 1st wife, who "may bee called Thomas the Rich." Knighted before 1322, and aged 30 and upwards at his father's death. He fought at Boroughbridge, 16 Mar 1321/2, and was taken prisoner. He was released from imprisonment in Pevensey Castle on 16 Oct 1326, and on 4 Apr 1327, was made Joint Custodian of the deposed King Edward II, whom he "curteously received" the next day at Berkeley Castle, but being commanded to deliver over the government thereof to his fellow custodian, departed therefrom to Bradley, "with heavy cheere perceiving what violence was intended." He was tried by a jury of 12 Knights (without protest) in 1330-1 as an accessory to the murder (g) of the deposed King, but was acquitted. In 1328 he was in the expedition against Scotland. From 14 June 1329 to 20 Nov 1360, he was summoned to Parliament, the last two writs have the addition of "Senior" thereto. In 1336 he was Chief Warden of cos. Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford; in 1340, Marshal of the English army in France; in 1342, Capt. of the Scottish Marches; Warden and Chief Justice in Eyre south of Trent 1345-48; he is stated (apparently in error) to have been, in 1346, Commander of the English forces at the battle of Crecy, and in 1361, was on an Embassy to Pope Innocent VI.
He m. 1stly, in or shortly bef. 25 July 1320 (Papal disp. to remain married with legitimisation of past issue dated Sep 1329), Margaret, daughter of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, by Joan, de jure suo jure (according to modern doctrine) Baroness Geneville, daughter and heir of Sir Piers de Geneville (2nd but 1st surviving son and heir apparent of Geoffrey, 1st Lord Geneville). She d. 5 May 1337, being under 30, and was buried at St. Augustine's, Bristol. He m. 2ndly, 30 May 1347, at Charfield, co. Gloucester, Katharine, widow of Sir Piers le Veel, of Tortworth, in that co., and daughter and heir of Sir John Clivedon, of Charfield aforesaid, by Emma, his wife. He d. 27 Oct 1361, in his 69th year, and was buried in Berkeley Church. M.I. His widow d. 13 Mar 1385, and is also buried there. [Complete Peerage II:129-30, XIV:87]
(g) This was perpetrated with horrible barbarity by Sir John Mautravers and Sir Thomas Gurnay, the then custodians of the castle. See a detailed account in Smyth's "Berkeleys", vol i, p. 291, confirming the allusion in Gray's "Bard" to
...."The shrieks of death thro' Berkeley's roof that ring--
....Shrieks of an agonising King."
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Thomas, 3rd baron, m. 1st, Margaret, dau. of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, and 2ndly, in 1347, Catherine, dau. of Sir John Clyvedon, widow of Sir Peter le Veel. This lord having adhered to the interest of the Queen, Mortimer, and Prince Edward, afterwards the third of that name, furnished "the only precedent," says Smith, "of a peer being tried by knights, as the peers would have been both judges and jurors." He first assumed a mitre for his crest. He was summoned to parliament from 1329 to 1360. He had issue by his 1st wife, besides his heir, three sons, who d. s. p., and one dau., Joan, wife of Sir Reginald Cobham; by his 2nd wife, had had, with three sons, who d. s. p., a 4th, John, ancestor of the Berkeleys of Beverstone. He d. 1361 and was s. by his son, Maurice, 4th baron. [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.~ 1120 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England d.16 Jun 1190 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1170 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.29 Nov 1243
- 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.~ 1151 in Dudley Castle, Warwickshire, England d.1211 in Dinas, Cardigan, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1191 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d.> 1273 in St Augustine's Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1165 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, England d.> 1242
- b.1245 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.23 Jul 1321 in St Augustine's Abbey, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1186 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.> 1232 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England
- b.~ 1166 in Surrey, England
- b.~ 1225 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England d.07 Jul 1276 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1178 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England d.1205 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England
- b.~ 1198 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England d.1265 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England
- b.~ 1180 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.> 1224
- b.Apr 1281 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.31 May 1326 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England (as a prisoner)
- b.1140 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.<21 Oct 1190 in Seige of Acre, Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.1172 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.22 Sep 1247
- b.1150 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.AFT 5 FEB 1227/28
- b.~ 1193 in Derby, Derbyshire, England d.<28 Mar 1254 in Evington, Leicestershire, England
- b.1147 in Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1181 in Leeke, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1174 in Chester, Cheshire, England d.02 Nov 1247
- b.1155 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France d.12 Jul 1227 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.1248 in Derby, Derbyshire, England d.19 MAR 1309/10 in St Augustine Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt, on way to Holy Land
- b.1174 in Winchester, Hamptonshire, England d.25 Apr 1264 in Buckley, Northamptonshire, England
- b.1154 in Leicestershire, England d.ABT 12 JAN 1234/35 in England
- b.~ 1223 in Winchester, Hamptonshire, England d.BEF 12 MAR 1280/81
- b.1186 in Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland d.1234 in Abbey of Dundren, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
- b.~ 1208 in Carrick, Argyllshire, Scotland d.>21 Nov 1245 in England
- b.~ 1194 in Ulster, Ireland
- b.< 1296 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.27 Oct 1361 in Berkeley Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1095 in Rohan, Morbihan, Bretagne, France d.1141 in Josselin, Morbihan, Bretagne, France
- b.< 1132 in Rohan, Morbihan, Bretagne, France d.1190 in North Molton, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1100 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Anjou/Pays de la Loire, France
- b.1182 in North Molton, Devonshire, England d.<14 May 1238 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England
- b.< 1106 in of Ashby, Leicestershire & Tong, Shropshire, England d.< 1158
- b.~ 1150 in of Ashby, Leicestershire & Tong, Shropshire, England
- b.~ 1131 in Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England d.1190
- b.1232 in Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire, England d.<25 Jun 1279 in Ashton Cantelou, Warwickshire, England
- b.~ 1132 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England d.~ 1176
- b.1156 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England d.<04 Apr 1211 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England
- b.1135 in Cany, Sein-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1187 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England d.28 JAN 1231/32
- b.~ 1128 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England d.1163 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1158 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England d.< 1199
- b.~ 1130 in Sprotbrough, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England d.> 1193 in Halton Castle, Skipton, Yorkshire, England
- b.<25 Mar 1280 in Harringworth, Northumberland, England d.06 Dec 1314 in Church of Portbury, Somerset, England
- b.1159 in Reading, Berkshire, England d.07 Apr 1239 in Ellesborough, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1179 in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England d.1251 in Calne, Wiltshire, England
- b.1163 in Shropshire, England
- b.1216 in Ashton Cantelou, Warwickshire, England d.25 Sep 1254 in Calstone Wellington, Calne, Wiltshire, England
- b.1148 in Caistor next Yarmouth, Flegg, Norfolk, England d.1215 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England
- b.1179 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England d.1260
- b.~ 1163 in Ashby, Leicestershire, England d.1238
- b.1250 in Calne, Wiltshire, England d.BEF 7 JAN 1298/99 in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England
- b.1178 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.<09 Jun 1228 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
- b.~ 1197 in Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales d.02 May 1230 in Hanged by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales after intrigues w/ his wife
- b.~ 1183 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.< 1215
- b.1220 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.<28 Jul 1265
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.1194 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.< 1246 in England
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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Thomas IV "The Rich" 3rd Baron de and Margaret de were married in a religious ceremony before July 25th, 1320 in 1st wife. They had a son and a daughter, named Maurice IV "The Valiant" 4th Baron de and Joan de.
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Children
Joan de Berkeley
Joan de was born about 1321 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. She died on October 2nd, 1369 in Southwark, London, Middlesex, England.
Maurice IV "The Valiant" 4th Baron de Berkeley
Maurice IV "The Valiant" 4th Baron de was born in 1330 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. He died at the age of 38 on June 3rd, 1368 in Berkeley Castle (of wounds received at Poitiers in 1356). He was buried in St Augustine's Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
Thomas IV "The Rich" 3rd Baron de and Katherine were married in a religious ceremony on May 30th, 1347 in 2nd husband 2nd wife. They had a son named John de.
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Children
John de Berkeley , of Beverstone, Sir
John de was born in Wotton, Gloucestershire, England. He died in 1428 in Beverstone Castle, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England.
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