Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley

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Maurice Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley (Berkeley, Gloucestershire, April 1271 - Wallingford Castle, 31 May 1326), sometimes termed The Magnanimous, was an English baron and rebel.

Born at Berkeley in the English county of Gloucestershire, he was the son of Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley (d. 1321), and Joan de Ferrers (1255-1309). He was involved in the Scottish Wars from about 1295 to 1318. He acceded on 16 August 1308, was Governor of Gloucester 1312, Governor of Berwick-on-Tweed 1314, Steward of the Duchy of Aquitaine 1319 and Justiciar of South Wales 1316. With the Earl of Lancaster, he rebelled against King Edward II, for which he was imprisoned in Wallingford Castle in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), where he died on 31 May 1326 and was eventually buried at St Augustine's Abbey in Bristol.

He married: 1. Eva la Zouche in 1289, with children:

• Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley, born c. 1296
• Sir Maurice Berkeley, of Uley, Gloucester
• Isabel Berkeley
• Milicent Berkeley

2. Isabella de Clare, daughter of Gilbert de Clare and Alice de Lusignan, about 1316.

His son, Thomas, succeeded his father as the 3rd Baron Berkeley.

[edit] References

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• Ancestral roots of sixty colonists who came to New England 1623-1650. Frederick Lewis Weis (earlier edition).
• Magna Charta Sureties, 1215., Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., William R. Beall, 1999, 5th Ed.
• Magna Charta Sureties, 1215", Frederick Lewis Weis, 4th Ed.
• The Complete Peerage, Cokayne.
• Burke's Peerage, 1938.
• Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists, David Faris, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996.
• Royal Genealogy information held at University of Hull.

Peerage of England
Preceded by Thomas de Berkeley	Baron Berkeley 1321-1326	Succeeded by Thomas de Berkeley