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 writsworded to him as "Maurice de Berkeley", which by a later interpretationwould have meant that he was made Lord (Baron) Berkeley in a separatecreation to that of his father, but in fact there is no record of hishaving 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 insurrectionagainst Edward II and his favourites the Despensers 1321 but was capturedand 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; SirMaurice; John, constable of Bristol Castle; Eudo; Peter; Isabel. [SirBernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke'sPeerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 44, Berkeley, Viscount Berkeley, Earl ofNottingham, and Marquess of Berkeley]