 Abt 1435 - 1506 (~ 71 years)
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| Name |
Maurice de Berkeley |
| Suffix |
3rd Baron Berkeley |
| Birth |
Abt 1435 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Sep 1506 |
| Notes |
- http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal19942
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BERKELEY1.htm#Maurice%20BERKELEY%20(3°%20B.%20Berkeley)
the late lord's brother, now stripped of the ancient honours and possessions of his forefathers, (though he continued through his life to be styled by courtesy lord Berkeley,) resided, as has been stated, at Thornbury, where, of his own and his wife's, he had a fair estate. As soon as the inquisitions after his brother's death were returned into Chancery, «b»Maurice«/b» commenced proceedings to recover from the Crown some of the manors which the «b»Marquess«/b» had given away, being advised that such alienations were illegal, and contrary to some old settlements and entails. In these litigations he was generally successful, the late «b»Marquess«/b», in his anxiety to barter his lands for honours and patronage, having often overlooked the nature of the titles by which he held them. «b»Maurice«/b»'s first success was the recovery of the manor of Sages in Slimbridge, consisting of seven tenements and 290 acres of land, and he entered into possession and held his first court there in 1499. Many other similar suits followed, with the like success, and while these were going on the manor and borough of Tetbury, and several others. descended to him as one of the heirs of the lord Breouse. In 1505 he claimed and recovered the advowson of the Church of Wotton-under-Edge, but immediately made it over to the Abbey of Tewkesbury. He also commenced a suit to recover the advowson of Slimbridge, held by Magdalen College, Oxford, which was settled by a compromise. The College retaining the advowson but paying him a sum of money, and undertaking to remember him in their prayers. In his journeys to and from London, and when visiting his manor of Callowden, near Coventry, finding that he and his suite were not received at the Monastery of Combe, in Warwickshire, with the honour and respect due to him as descendant from one of its founders, «b»Maurice«/b» exhibited a bill in Chancery against the Abbot and Monks, claiming his rights in respect of his descent from «b»Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk«/b», their founder, and obtained an acknowledgement of his claim. «b»Maurice«/b» died in 1506, and was buried in the Church of the Augustine Friars, in London. His eldest son, «b»Maurice«/b», succeeded him.
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| Person ID |
I12027 |
Glenn Cook Family |
| Last Modified |
4 May 2007 |
| Father |
James the Just de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley, b. Abt 1394, Raglan, Monmouth  d. Nov 1463, Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire (Age ~ 69 years) |
| Mother |
Isabel de Mowbray d. 23 Sep 1452, Gloucester |
| Marriage |
1423 |
Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England |
| Family ID |
F5518 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).
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