Maurice BERKELEY

Abt 1579 - 1617  (~ 38 years)

• Name	Maurice BERKELEY
  Born	Abt 1579	Bruton, Somersetshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	1617	England
  Person ID	I43366	Main
  Last Modified	15 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Sir Henry BERKELEY,   b. 1541, Bruton, Somersetshire, England ,   d. Oct 1601, Bruton, Somersetshire, England  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Margaret LYGON,   b. 1548, Madresfield, Worcestershire, England ,   d. Jun 1617, Bruton, Somersetshire, England  (Age 69 years)
  Family ID	F30563	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth KILLIGREW,   b. 1579, London, London, England ,   d. 18 Apr 1626, Houworth, London, England  (Age 47 years)
  Children	+ 1. John BERKELEY,   b. 1602, England ,   d. 26 Aug 1678, England  (Age 76 years) + 2. Moses WRIGHT,   b. 10 Jan 1727, Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts ,   d. 4 Jun 1821, Waterford, Caledonia, Vermont  (Age 94 years)
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2017
  Family ID	F30556	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Died - 1617 - England  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  The Berkeley family descends in the male line from Robert Fitzharding (d.1170), 1st feudal baron of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, reputedly the s/o Harding of Bristol, the s/o Eadnoth the Constable (Alnod), a high official under King Edward the Confessor. Berkeley Castle, the caput of the barony, and the adjoining town of Berkeley are located in the county of Gloucestershire and are situated about five miles west of Dursley and eighteen miles southwest of Gloucester, and northeast of Bristol. The location has conferred various titles on the family over the centuries, including Baron Berkeley (barony by writ), Earl of Berkeley, and Marquess of Berkeley. Berkeley Castle was originally granted by William the Conqueror to the Norman Roger de Berkeley, feudal baron of Dursley, under the feudal tenure of fee-farm. However, this Norman family, which had recently taken its name from its tenure of Berkeley Castle, was stripped of its tenure by King Henry II (1154–1189) shortly before he became king. The tenure was re-granted to his supporter and financier the Anglo-Saxon Robert Fitzharding (d.1170), of Bristol, as a feudal barony. Shortly afterwards, under the encouragement of Henry II who had clearly regretted the effect of his dispossession of Roger, the two families were united by the forced intermarriage by contract of the eldest son and heir of each to the other's eldest daughter.[1] Thus the heirs of both Roger de Berkeley and of Robert Fitzharding were either adopted, or continued the use of, the surname "de Berkeley", the former retaining the truncated feudal barony of Dursley, the latter establishing his line as feudal barons of Berkeley Castle.