Sir Maurice 2nd Baron De Berkeley 
Maurice 2nd Baron was born on April 4th, 1281 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. Maurice 2nd Baron's father was Thomas 1st Baron De Berkeley and his mother was Joan De Ferrers. His paternal grandparents were Maurice De Berkeley and Isabella De Chilham; his maternal grandfather was Earl of Derby William V De Ferrers Earl of Derby. He had a brother and three sisters, named Thomas, Alice, Margaret and Marquerite Frances. He was the second youngest of the five children. He died at the age of 45 on May 31st, 1326 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England.General Notes
BIOGRAPHY: 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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BIOGRAPHY: 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.~ 1130 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England d.16 Jun 1190 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1167 d.29 Nov 1243
- b.~ 1135 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England d.>16 Jun 1190
- b.1218 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England d.1281 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1151 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England d.1211
- b.~ 1191 in Dudley, Worcester, England d.22 May 1276
- b.~ 1105 in Pemroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.~ 1164
- b.~ 1147 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.~ 1242
- b.1245 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England d.23 Jul 1321 in St. Augustines Abbey, Bristol, Gloucester, England
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1186 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England d.06 Aug 1270 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England
- b.~ 1170
- b.~ 1218 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England d.07 Jul 1276
- b.~ 1178 d.1205
- b.~ 1200 d. in Chilham Castle, Kent, England
- b.1184 in Stoke, Gloucestershire, England d.1233
- b.04 Apr 1281 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England d.31 May 1326 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1136 in Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England d.<21 Oct 1190 in Seige of Acre, Holy Land while on Crusade
- b.~ 1162 in Ferrers, Derbyshire, England d.22 Sep 1247
- b.~ 1147 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.Aft 8 FEB 1226/1227 in England
- b.~ 1193 in Derbyshire, England d.24 MAR 1253/1254 in Evington, Leicestershire, England
- b.1147 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1181 in Leek, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1174 in Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England d.02 Nov 1247
- b.1155 in Chester, England d.12 Jul 1189 in Evreux, Eure, France
- b.~ 1238 in Derby, England d.19 MAR 1308/1309
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Children
Thomas 3rd Baron De Berkeley
Thomas 3rd Baron was born in 1292 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. He died at the age of 69 on October 27th, 1361 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England.
Isabel Berkeley
Isabel was born in 1307 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. She died at the age of 55 on July 25th, 1362 in Hartley Castle, Kirby Stephen, Co. Westmoreland, England.
Milicent De Berkeley
Milicent was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. She died after 1322 in Coates and Summerfield, Wiltshire, England.
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