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Birth Name de Berkeley, Maurice VI
Gender male
Age at Death 42 years, 4 months, 1 day

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 1358-06-01 Uley, Gloucester, England   7
Death 1400-10-02 Uley, Gloucester, England   7

Age: 42y 4m 1d

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father de Berkeley, Thomas1332
Mother de Botetourt, Katherine1342
         de Berkeley, Maurice VI 1358-06-01 1400-10-02
    Brother     de Berkeley, Edmund 1361
    Brother     de Berkeley, John 1363
    Sister     de Berkeley, Isabel 1365

Families

Family of de Berkeley, Maurice VI and Dinham, Johanna
Unknown Partner Dinham, Johanna ( * about 1368 + 1412-08-22 )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
de Berkeley, Gertrude1396
Berkeley, Elizabeth1396
de Berkeley, Ann1398
Berkeley, Maurice VII1401-02-021464-11-26
de Berkeley, James Jr1401-02-021464-11-26

Source References

  1. Michael Neuman: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=clcaldwell&id=I029975&style=TABLE @ ralph d'aubigny.ged Caldwell and related families
  2. Michael Neuman: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I029971 @ RootsWeb Caldwell and related families
      • Source text:

        # ID: I029971
        # Name: Maurice VI de Berkeley
        # Sex: M
        # Birth: ABT 1359 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
        # Death: 1401 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England

         

         

        Father: Maurice V de Berkeley b: ABT 1336 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
        Mother: Katherine de Botetourt b: ABT 1342 in Weoley Castle, Northfield, Worcestershire, England

        Marriage 1 Joan de Dinham b: ABT 1371 in Hartland, Devonshire, England

        Children

        1. Has No Children Gertrude de Berkeley b: ABT 1394 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
        2. Has No Children Elizabeth de Berkeley b: ABT 1396 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
        3. Has No Children Anne de Berkeley b: ABT 1398 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
        4. Has Children Maurice VII de Berkeley b: ABT 1400 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England

      • Citation:

        e-mail: michaelneuman@earthlink.net

  3. Proof of age for Maurice, son and heir of Thomas de Berkeley of Ule
      • Source text:

        93. Maurice, son and heir of Thomas de Berkeley of Ule
        Writ to the escheator to take proof of the age of the said Maurice (fragment).
        [GLOUCESTER]. Proof of age (fragment).
        Thomas de Rodele, aged 44 years and more, says that the said Maurice was born at Ule and [baptized in the church there on the morrow of the feast of Corpus] Christi, 32 Edward III [1358]; and this he recollects because he had a ………, 32 Edward III, and by the death of the said Joan he recollects etc.
        Richard Chansy, aged 52 years and more, agrees and says that … 32 Edward III he married a woman named Alice, and so he is sure [that the said Maurice is] 21 years of age.
        Thomas Clayvill, aged 60 years and more, agrees and says ……… of Ule he fell to the ground and broke his left arm.
        Thomas Drayfite, aged 44 years and more, agrees and says ……… Ule at farm to a certain Richard Snart for 30 years.
        Thomas Daunt, aged 46 years and more, agrees … (remainder torn away).
        C. Ric. II. File 11 (9)

      • Citation:

        M. C. B. Dawes, A. C. Wood and D. H. Gifford, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Richard II, File 11', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 15, Richard II (London, 1970), pp. 114-122. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol15/pp114-122 [accessed 4 February 2020].

         

  4. Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) for Maurice Berkeley, knight
      • Source text:

        408 MAURICE BERKELEY, KNIGHT
        Writ 15 Oct. 1400.
        WILTSHIRE. Inquisition. Amesbury. 16 Dec.
        He held to himself and his heirs male with remainder to Thomas de Berkeley, Lord Berkeley, the manors of Brigmerston and Milston with the advowson of Milston, of the same Lord Berkeley by a yearly rent of 1 barbed arrow, annual value 10 marks.
        He held to himself and his heirs that manor of Brigmerston which was formerly of Stephen de Brightmerston, of the above manor of Brigmerston, service unknown, annual value 5 marks; and the manor of Milston ‘Gogeon’ of the same manor of Brigmerston, service unknown, annual value 50s.
        He died on 2 Oct. Joan his wife is pregnant. Failing Joan’s child, Isabel daughter of Maurice Berkeley, aunt of Maurice, would be heir, aged 50 years and more.

        409
        Writ 12 Oct. 1400.
        GLOUCESTER. Inquisition. Chipping Sodbury. 8 Nov.
        He held:
        Rockhampton, lands which were formerly parts of the manor: rents, services, feedings and a pasture called ‘Shepardynde’, annual value 4 marks; a parcel called ‘le Lese’ of about 20 a., another called ‘Twentyacres’, and a third called ‘Nynetenacres’, worth 8 marks with the advowson of the church there; making by estimation one sixth of the manor, in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief, service unknown.
        King’s Weston, Aylburton and Rockhampton, the manors, jointly with Joan his wife, who survives, by the feoffment under royal licence [CPR 1399–1401, p.288] by John Berkeleigh and John Denham, knights, Thomas Stowell and Thomas Mulleward, chaplain, to them and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the right heirs of Maurice; annual values, King’s Weston £40, Aylburton 50 marks, Rockhampton, excluding the parcels mentioned above, 40 marks; held of the king in chief, services unknown.
        Uley and Bradley, the manors, of Thomas Lord Berkeley, service unknown, annual values 20 marks and 10 marks.
        Stoke Gifford and Walle, the manors, to himself and the heirs male of his body, with remainder in default of such heirs to Thomas de Berkelegh, of the bishop of Worcester, service unknown, annual value 20 marks.
        Date of death and heirs as above.
        C 137/23, no. 39
        E 152/355, no. 9

      • Citation:

        J. L. Kirby, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry IV, Entries 400-446', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 18, Henry IV (London, 1987), pp. 125-144. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol18/pp125-144 [accessed 12 January 2020].

         

  5. Additional Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) for Maurice Berkeley, knight
      • Source text:

        MAURICE DE BERKELEY, KNIGHT
        943 Writ melius inquirendo 5 Feb. 1422. [Smyth]. Teste John, duke of Bedford.
        Refers to CIPM XVIII, no. 408, which found that Maurice held the manors of Brigmerston and Milston and the advowson of the church of Milston in tail male and that his wife Joan was pregnant at his death. Inquire by whose grant he held them, whether Joan gave birth, and if she did, whether to a surviving son or a daughter, and the name of the child.

        Wiltshire. Inquisition. Amesbury. 7 May. [Wayte].
        Jurors: John Sarre ; Richard Haye ; John Morys ; John Grenelyf ; John Laneford ; Robert Deage ; William Mokel ; Thomas Smale ; Richard Towker ; John Madyngton ; John Benschyn ; and Robert Forster .

        He held the manors and advowson by grant of Thomas de Berkeley, Lord Berkeley .

        He died on 2 Oct. 1400. His wife Joan gave birth on 1 Feb. next to a son named Maurice , who is Maurice's next heir and is aged 21 years and more.

        C 138/64/30 mm. 1-2

        ENHANCEMENT OF TEXT: The text of this IPM which appeared in the print edition of CIPM XXI has been enhanced in certain respects: see the About pages.

        944 Writ melius inquirendo 5 Feb. 1422. [Smyth]. Teste John, duke of Bedford.
        Refers to CIPM XVIII, no. 409, which found that Maurice held in chief in his demesne as of fee the advowson of the church of Rockhampton and portions of land there called `Shepardynde', `le Lese', 20 a., `Twentyacres' and `Vyneteneacres', amounting to 1/6 manor of Rockhampton, the manors of Stoke Gifford and `Walle' in tail male, and the manors of Uley and Bradley. Inquire by whose grant he held the land in Rockhampton and the manors of Stoke Gifford and `Walle', what estate he had in the manors of Uley and Bradley, whether Joan gave birth, and if she did, whether to a surviving son or a daughter, and the name of the child.

        Gloucestershire and the Adjacent March of Wales. Inquisition. Aylburton. 3 April. [Tracy].
        Jurors: Henry Crook ; Richard Panter ; Henry Champeney ; William Knyght ; Nicholas Veele ; John Tyladam ; John Knyde ; John Brugge ; Edward Wyldeman ; John Brounyng ; John Mattok ; and Nicholas Reve .

        He was seised in chief in his demesne as of fee of the land in Rockhampton, which contains 40 a. arable, 15 a. meadow, 20 a. pasture and 5 marks rent, but by what service they are held is unknown. He held the manors of Stoke Gifford and `Walle' in tail male by grant of Thomas Berkeley, Lord Berkeley , and the manors of Uley and Bradley in his demesne as of fee.

        Date of death and heir as in 943.

        C 138/64/30 mm. 3-4

        ENHANCEMENT OF TEXT: The text of this IPM which appeared in the print edition of CIPM XXI has been enhanced in certain respects: see the About pages.

        Source: http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/21-943/

        MAURICE DE BERKELEY, CHEVALIER
        29 Writ mandamus. ‡ 13 February 1423. [Wymbyssh]
        Regarding lands held of ‪ Henry IV .

        SOMERSET. Inquisition. Yeovil. 23 April 1423. [Carant]
        Jurors: William Lumbard ; Ralph Manston ; Stephen Hoper ; John Bathe ; John Broun ; John Porter ; Roger Kerver ; John Pille ; Richard Slade ; William Burton ; Thomas Jermyn ; and Robert Mershe .

        He held in his demesne as of fee of the king of his duchy of Lancaster

        1/3 manor of Kingston Seymour by knight service, annual value 100s.
        He died on 2 October 1400. [See CIPM XVIII, nos 408–9.] Maurice Berkeley, chevalier , is his son and next heir, aged 22 years and more.

        By letters patent shown to the jurors and dated at Westminster, 28 November 1401 [CPR 1401–1405, pp.20 –1], ‪ Henry IV granted to Francis de Court, chevalier, custody of all lands, tenements, rents and possessions which the deceased Maurice had held of the king in chief and which had come into the king’s hands owing to his death and the minority of Maurice his son and heir, and also custody of all other lands, tenements, rents and possessions which should descend, remain or revert to the heir during his minority after the death of any other ancestor or in any other manner, to have such custody with the heir’s marriage until the heir’s majority without rendering anything to the king. Francis occupied the lands and tenements and took all issues after Maurice’s death; he died, having made Alice his wife his executor. After his death, Alice married Lewis John, esquire , and together they occupied the lands, taking all issues from Francis’s death until now.
        C 139/1/23 mm.1–2

        Source: http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/22-029/

      • Citation:

        King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/21-943/ [Accessed: 20/1/2020]

  6. Maurice de Berkeley, "Find A Grave Index"
      • Source text:

        Name Maurice de Berkeley
        Birth Date 01 Jun 1358
        Death Date 02 Oct 1400
        Event Type Burial
        Photograph Included N

      • Citation:

        "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGH-8Z2W : 15 June 2022), Maurice de Berkeley, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 119288172, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

        https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119288172/maurice-de_berkeley

      • Source text:

        ConstituencyDates
        GLOUCESTERSHIRE
        1391
        Family and Education
        b. Uley, 1 June 1358, s. and h. of Sir Thomas Berkeley (d.1361), by Katherine, da. of John, 2nd Lord Botetourt. m. bef. May 1400, Joan (d. 22 Aug. 1412), da. of Sir John Dynham of Hartland, Devon, 1s. Sir Maurice†.1 Kntd. between July and Sept. 1379.

        Offices Held
        Commr. of inquiry, Glos., Som. June 1389 (trespasses, Fullwood and Kingswood).

        J.p. Glos. 15 July 1389-June 1390.

        Biography
        Maurice was the great-grandson of Maurice, Lord Berkeley (d.1326), and grandson of the Sir Maurice who led a distinguished career in war and diplomacy under Edward III. His father fought at Poitiers, but died at an early age in 1361, leaving the three-year-old child as heir to his estates. These, owing to the generosity shown to this branch of the family by their noble kinsmen (‘Maurice the Magnanimous’ and ‘Thomas the Ritch’), were considerable: young Berkeley’s inheritance included the manors of Kings Weston, Aylburton, Bradley and Uley, in Gloucestershire, Kingston Seymour in Somerset, and Brigmerston and Milston in Wiltshire, besides smaller properties in Hampshire. In addition, when John, Lord Mautravers, a distant relation, died without male issue three years later, the boy inherited the manors of Rockhampton, Stoke Gifford and Wallscourt (Gloucestershire), under the terms of an entail. Contemporary evidence of the value of these estates is lacking, but at Berkeley’s death those in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire alone were said to be worth nearly £154 a year. Berkeley’s wardship had been granted in 1363 to his stepfather, Sir John Thorpe†, and it was not until 1380 that he made proof of age and obtained seisin of the bulk of his inheritance. That part of the Berkeley estates held as dower by his mother (one of the daughters of the last Lord Botetourt) fell to him only after her death in January 1388.2

        Berkeley’s career had begun in July 1379, when, since he had not yet furnished proof that he had reached his majority, the Crown appointed guardians to accompany him on a voyage to Brittany in the retinue of the ruler of the duchy, John de Montfort. While abroad in the duke’s service he was knighted and in September, after a brief sojourn at home, he made a second journey to Brittany, on this occasion in the company of John, Lord Arundel, the marshal of England. Berkeley spent long stretches of the next few years abroad: he is known to have taken out royal letters of protection for service overseas in June 1380, April 1383 and November 1385, the last being in order to take part in a military expedition to Flanders for the defence of Ghent. Consequently, it was not until the summer of 1389 that he was first appointed to royal commissions at home in Gloucestershire, and even then he was named on no more than a single commission of inquiry (which he later claimed he had never received) and a single commission of the peace.3

        The year 1391 saw the culmination of a dispute between Berkeley and the collegiate church of St. Mary at Leicester over ownership of the manor of Wollaston, Northamptonshire, which had at one time been in the Berkeley family’s possession. The debate was brought to a close on 31 Oct., when John, duke of Lancaster (the church’s patron), who had taken upon himself the task of examining the evidence, successfully persuaded Berkeley that he had no valid claim to the property. Such an encounter would not seem to have been auspicious for subsequent good relations between duke and knight, yet Gaunt clearly intended to win Sir Maurice over. Only two days later he named Berkeley as one of his bachelors, retaining him for life in peace and war and awarding him an annuity of £20 charged on the issues of the lordship of Monmouth. Berkeley had already been elected to represent Gloucestershire in the Parliament which was to assemble the very next day (3 Nov.). His contract with Lancaster soon led to further service overseas: he sailed for Aquitaine with the duke in August 1393, remaining in the duchy at Gaunt’s expense, with a small personal contingent of two esquires and three archers, until 25 Apr. 1395.4

        Berkeley’s return home did not signal any further appointments in the sphere of local administration, perhaps because he had shown no aptitude for it earlier. His remaining years were disturbed only by minor troubles: in 1396 he was fined for blocking the course of a stream at Kingston Seymour, and in 1398 an official enquiry was made regarding his enclosure of land, said to be common pasture, to make a park at Stoke Gifford. Although on 28 Apr. 1399, following Gaunt’s death and the confiscation by the Crown of the estates of the duchy of Lancaster, Richard II confirmed Berkeley’s annuity and retained him in his own service, there is no evidence that he accompanied the King on the expedition to Ireland then in its final stages of preparation. It has not been ascertained whether or not Henry of Bolingbroke ever ratified the annuity under the duchy seal after he had regained his inheritance; certainly, there is no record of its confirmation under the great seal after Henry’s accession to the throne.5

        In May 1400 Berkeley obtained a royal licence to entail certain of his estates on himself and his wife and their issue, having asked Sir John Dynham (his father-in-law), Sir John Berkeley I* (his kinsman) and (Sir) Thomas Stawell* (a neighbour from Somerset), to act as trustees. He died, less than five months later, on 2 Oct., aged 42. So far, there had been no children born of his marriage, and his heir was an unmarried aunt aged over 50. However, his widow was pregnant and in due course, on 9 Feb. 1401, gave birth to a son, named Maurice after his father. The child, who was made a ward of one of the ‘King’s knights’, Sir Francis Court, was destined to be even wealthier than his father, for in 1407, when his kinswoman Joyce, Lady Burnell and Botetourt, died childless, he inherited a third part of the barony of Botetourt. On proving his age in 1423 he took possession of both the Berkeley and his share of the Botetourt estates, and as Sir Maurice Berkeley he was returned for Gloucestershire to the Parliaments of 1425 and 1429.6

        Ref Volumes: 1386-1421
        Author: L. S. Woodger
        Notes
        1.Peds. Plea Rolls ed. Wrottesley, 418; CP, ii. 234 (where his fa. is called Maurice in error).
        2.J. Smyth, Lives of the Berkeleys ed. Maclean, i. 245-60; iii. 110, 148, 178-9, 188-9, 256; CIPM, xi. 10, 592; xv. 293; xvi. 638-41; CFR vii. 269; x. 223; CPR, 1354-8, p. 74; 1374-7, p. 400; CCR, 1377-81, pp. 288-9; C137/23/39.
        3.C76/64 mm. 2, 22, 25, 67 m. 9, 70 m. 33; Smyth, 258-60; CCR, 1389-92, p. 320.
        4.CIPM, viii. 630; CCR, 1389-92, p. 500; Cam. Misc. xxii. 103; DL 29/615/9839; C61/104 m. 9.
        5.C260/106/30; CPR, 1396-9, pp. 365, 544.
        6.CPR, 1399-1401, pp. 288, 431; 1401-5, p. 20; C137/23/39; C138/61/65, 64/30; C139/8/80; CCR, 1399-1402, pp. 237-8, 242; CP, ii. 234.

      • Citation:

        http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/berkeley-sir-maurice-1358-1400

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