Ancestors of John William Brearton *
Twenty-fifth Generation
33030808. Baron, 2nd Lord Berkeley Maurice I "the Magnanimous" Berkeley * was born in Apr 1271/1281 in Berkeley,Gloucestershire,England . He died on 31 May 1326 in Wallingford Cast,England . He was buried in St. Augustine's,Bristol,Glou,England . He married Baroness Berkel Eve La Zouche * in 1289. [Parents]
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2nd Lord Berkley. Governor of Gloucester 1312, Governor of Berwick-on-Tweed 1314. Steward of the Duchy of Aquitaine 1319. Justiciar of South Wales Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Lord Berkeley, the eldest son, known as "The Magnanimous," said to be born in April 1281 (must have been 1271, otherwise his son was born when he was only 12 years of age!) and died on May 31, 1326, having married in 1289 (1), both being very young, Eva (Eve) Zouche, daughter of Eudo (Eudes) le Zouche, a descendant of Saire de Quincy, sister of Willard Lord Zouche of Harringworth; (2) Isabel Clare, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and his first wife, Alice le Brun. He received, in his father's lifetime, summons to parliament from August 6, 1308 to May 15, 1321. In 1312, he was made Governor of Gloucester and, in 1314, Governor of the town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed. He distinguished himself in the Scottish wars from 1295 to 1318, and was present at the siege of Carlaverock in July 1300. In 1315, he was constituted Justice of South Wales and had custody of all the castles there. In 1319, by the title of the king's beloved kinsman, he was made steward of the duchy of Aquitaine; but in 1321, joining Thomas Plantaganet, Earl of Lancaster, he was committed prisoner to Wallingford Castle, where he died December 5, 1314. Isabel d.s.p. 1333. Vol II File 6: The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James 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; Sir Maurice; John, constable of Bristol Castle; Eudo; Peter; Isabel. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 44, Berkeley, Viscount Berkeley, Earl of Nottingham, and Marquess of Berkeley]
33030809. Baroness Berkel Eve La Zouche * was born about 8 Jan 1289 in Harringworth,Nham,England . She died on 5 Dec 1314. She was buried in Church,Portbury,Some,England . [Parents]
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Children
Thomas "the Rich" de BERKELEY b: 1293 in ,Berkeley,Gloucestershire,England
Millicent BERKELEY b: Abt 1295 in Berkeley,Gloucestershire,England
Peter BERKELEY b: Abt 1301 in Berkeley,Gloucestershire,England
Eudo (Ivo) BERKELEY b: Abt 1303 in Berkeley,Gloucestershire,England
Isabel BERKELEY b: Abt 1307 in Berkeley,Gloucestshire,England
Maurice BERKELEY b: Abt 1298 in Berkeley,Gloucestershire,England
John De BERKELEY b: Abt 1297 in Of Berkley Castl,Berkeley,Gloucestershire,England
33030810. John Clivedon was born about 1284 in Clarfield,Gloucester,England . He died about 1373. He was buried in Keeper Of Bristol Castle . He married Emme. [Parents]
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Abbrev: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Editio n , by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippa r d Jr., 1999 Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 Page: 39-31 Quality: 3
Abbrev: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition , by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippar d Jr., 1999 Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 Page: 39-31 Quality: 3
33030811. Emme was born about 1288.
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33243468. Baron Thomas "the Rich" Berkeley * was born in 1293 in Berkeley,Gloucestershire,England . He died on 27 Oct 1361 in Berkeley,Gloucestershire,England . He was buried in Church,Berkeley,Glou,England . He married Katharine Clivedon * on 3 Jun 1347 in Charfield,Gloucestershire,England. [Parents]
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Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Lord Berkeley, known as "The Rich," was born in 1293. In 1327 he was made joint custodian of the deposed King Edward II, whom he received at Berkeley Castle, but being commanded to deliver over the government to his fellow custodians, Lord Maltravers and Sir Thomas Gournay, he left there to go to Bradley "with heavy cheere perceiving what violence was intended." As an accessory to the murder of the deposed king, he was tried by a jury of 12 knights in the 4th year of King Edward III., but was honorably acquitted. He married about 1320 (1) Margaret Mortimer, daughter of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, and in 1347, (2) Catherine Clivedon, widow of Peter le Veel, of Tortworth, co. Gloucester, and daughter of John Cliveton, of Charfield.. This lord having adhered to the interests of the Queen, Mortimer, and Prince Edward, afterwards the third of that name, furnished "the only precedent," says Smith, "of a peer being tried by knights, as the peers would have been both judges and jurors." He first assumed a miter for his crest. He was summoned to parliament from June 14, 1329 to November 20, 1360. Vol II File 6: The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James Thomas III. Eigth Lord. 1326 to 1361 THOMAS de Berkeley and his brother Maurice had shared with their father in the rebellion against the Despensers, and when the father was captured and committed to Wallingford Castle, the sons revenged themselves by laying waste the manors of the favourites in Oxon and Berkshire. Thomas was however taken prisoner and committed to the Tower, but made his escape; being again captured he was sent successively to the castles of Berkhampstead and Pevensey, and remained a prisoner nearly five years, until he was set free by the success of the Queen's party in 1326. During the last six years of the reign of Edward II, it is recorded that half the baronage of England were butchered, imprisoned, or banished by the king in the course of the struggle against the king's favourites. The popular party was however now reinforced by the Queen Isabella and the Prince of Wales, who were everywhere welcomed as the deliverers of the kingdom. Their first acts were to liberate those of their friends who were pining in the king's dungeons, one of the first of whom was Thomas de Berkeley. He joined the Queen's army at Oxford, from whence they marched to Gloucester, and thence by way of Berkeley to Bristol. On the plea of preparing to receive the Queen, Thomas, now lord Berkeley, his father having died a few months previously, hurried forward to Berkeley, and proceeded to victual the Castle as if for a siege. This was his first appearance at Berkeley as its lord, and his tenants welcomed him with presents of money, from twenty to forty shillings each, according to their holdings. The Castle and manors having been for several years in the possession of the Crown, lord Berkeley found them well stocked with cattle, hay, corn and implements, of which he took possession, as well as of a quantity of treasure of the Despensers which he found in the Castle. A great number of men at arms had also been levied and armed from the Berkeley manors by order of the King, and these now gladly gave their allegiance to their rightful lord. At Bristol the elder Despenser was taken and executed as a traitor, and his son soon shared a similar fate at Hereford. The unhappy king, now deserted by all his friends, was captured near Neath Abbey in South Wales and sent to Kenilworth Castle, and the Queen and her army marched to London. From Hereford lord Berkeley however returned to Berkeley, halting on the way at Wigmore the seat of his father-in-law the lord Mortimer, where he met his wife the lady Margaret, from whom his long imprisonment and the turbulent events which followed it, had separated him for nearly six years. The king was formally deposed at a parliament which was summoned i
Author: John Burke ESQ of Clearfild Publishing 1834 Title: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of The Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co of Baltimore 1977 Page: Vol I, page 469
33243469. Katharine Clivedon * was born about 1310 in Charfield,Gloucestershire,England . She died on 13 Mar 1385 in Berkeley Church,Gloucestershire,England . She was buried in Berkeley Church,Gloucestershire,England . She had other parents. [Parents]
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33243470. John Betteshorne was born about 1327. He married Goda.
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33243471. Goda was born about 1329.
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