Maurice II "Magnanimous" 2Nd Baron De The 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 [Baron Berkeley] Thomas "The Wise" The [Baron Berkeley]/Berkeley and his mother was [Baroness Berkel Joan De Ferrers [Baroness Berkel. His paternal grandparents were [Lord Of Berkele Maurice "The Resolute" Berkeley [Lord Of Berkele and Isabel Isabel Fitzrichard De Fitzroy; his maternal grandmother was Margaret De Quincy. He had three brothers and two sisters, named John De, James De, Thomas III De, Margaret De and Isabel De. He was the youngest of the six children. He died at the age of 45 on May 31st, 1326 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England. He was buried on May 31st, 1326 in St. Augustine's Bristol.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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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.04 Apr 1218 in Berkeley, Gloucester, England d.04 Apr 1281
- b.1245 in Castle Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England d.23 Jul 1321 in St Augustines Abbey, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1225 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England d.07 Jul 1276 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
- b.Apr 1281 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England d.31 May 1326 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England
- b.1248 in Derby, Derbyshire, England d.19 Mar 1309-1310 in St Augustine Priory, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1218 in Winchester, Hamptonshire, England d.Bef 12 Mar 1280-1281
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Maurice II "Magnanimous" 2Nd Baron De and Eve La were married in a religious ceremony before March 25th, 1289 in 1st Wife. They had six sons and three daughters, named Robert, Thomas IV "The Rich" 3Rd Baron De, Maurice III De, John, Peter, Eudo (Ivo), Eleanore, Milicent (Ela) De and Isabel De.
Family Notes
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Children
Thomas IV "The Rich" 3Rd Baron De Thomas The Rich 3Rd Lord 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 Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. He was buried in Church, Berkeley, 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.
Sir Maurice III De Berkeley
Maurice III De was born in 1298 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, 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 in Hartley Castle, Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland, England.
Maurice II "Magnanimous" 2Nd Baron De and Isabella De were married in a religious ceremony in 1316 in 2ND Husband 2ND Wife.
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