'Berkeley05'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Berkeley of Beverstone or Beverton Castle, Berkeley of Wymondham

                               
Sir John de Berkeley of Beverstone (b 1349, d 1428)
m. Elizabeth Bettershorne (dau of John Bettershorne of Bisterne) ## see note here ##
1. Sir Maurice de Berkeley of Beverstone (b 1424, d 1474)
  m. Laura FitzHugh (dau of Henry FitzHugh, 4th Lord)
  A. Maurice Berkeley of Beverstone (d 1474)
  m. Anne West (dau of Reginald West, Lord de la Warre)
i. William Berkeley of Beverstone (dsp before 1492)
  m. Catherine Stourton
  ii. Katherine Berkeley (d 25.06.1494)
  m1. John Stourton, 3rd Lord (b c1453, d 06.10.1485)
  m2. Sir John Brereton
  B. Sir Edward Berkeley of Beverton Castle, Sheriff of Gloucester (d c1505)
  m1. Christan Holt (dau of Richard Holt of Coldrey)
  i. Lora Berkeley (d c12.1501)
  m1. (by 1477) John Blount, 3rd Lord Mountjoy (d 12.10.1485)
m2. Sir Thomas Montgomery (d 1495)
  m3. (before 1496) Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde (d 03.08.1515)
  m2. Alice Cock (d 29.10.1509)
  ii. Thomas Berkeley 'of Aven' of Beverton Castle (d c1500)
  Some sites show Thomas as Sir Edward's son by his first marriage.
  m. Elizabeth Neville (dau of George Neville, 4th Lord of Abergavenny)
  a. Anne Berkeley
  m. John Brent of Charing
  (1) Margaret Brent
  BP1934 (Dering) reports that Margaret was dau of John Brent of Charing by Anne, dau of Sir Edward Berkeley. We show Anne as Sir Edward's granddaughter.
  m. John Dering of Surrenden (d 1550)
  b. Elizabeth Berkeley
  m. George Herbert of Swansea
c. Alice Berkeley
  m. George Whettenhall
  iii. Maurice Berkeley of Beverton Castle (dsp 09.09.1513)
  iv. William Berkeley of Beverton Castle (d c1549)
  m. Margaret Pawlet
  a. John Berkeley of Beverton Castle (dsp 08.10.1581)
  m. Frances Poyntz (d 08.1576, dau of Sir Nicholas Poyntz of Iron Acton)
2. Elizabeth Berkeley (d c08.12.1478)
  m1. (sp) Sir Edward Cherlton, Lord Powis
  m2. John Sutton, 1st Lord of Dudley (b 25.12.1400, d 30.09.1487)
3. Eleanor Berkeley (d 01.08.1455)
  m1. John FitzAlan, Lord Maltravers, 12th Earl of Arundel (d 21.04.1421)
  m2. Sir Richard de Poynings (dvp 10.06.1429)

 

 

Sir Thomas de Berkeley of Coston
m. Isabel Hamelin (dau of Sir John Hamelin of Wymondham)
1. Sir John de Berkeley of Wymondham this generation reported in BEB1841 but not in the Visitation record
  m. Joan (a 1368)
  A. Sir John de Berkeley of Wymondham (d 1374)
  m. Elizabeth
  i. Sir John Berkeley of Wymondham (a 1403)
  a. Sir Laurence Berkeley of Wymondham (d 1458)
  m. Joan Woodford (sister of Sir Robert Woodford)
(1) Sir Thomas Berkeley of Wymondham (d 1488)
  m. Emma or Petronell Brokesby (dau of William Brokesby)
  (A) Sir Maurice Berkeley of Wymondham (d 1522)
  m. Margaret Byron (dau of Sir John Byron of Over Colwick)
  (i) Thomas Berkeley (dvp)
  m. Margaret De la Laund (dau of Thomas De la Laund by Katherine Welles)
  (a) Maurice Berkeley of Wymondham
  m. Margaret Harrington (dau of Sir John Harrington)
  ((1)) John Berkeley of Wymondham (dsp)
((2)) Elizabeth Berkeley (d 24.10.1573)
  m1. Robert Pakenham of Streatham (d 30.08.1552, Clerk of the Green Cloth)
  m2. Robert Levesey
(b) William Berkeley of Wymondham (d 1536)
  m. Mary Baunde (dau of Robert Buade or Band of Hornby)
  ((1)) Maurice Berkeley of Wymondham (b c1530, d 1600)
  m. Mary Hall (dau of John Hall of Grantham)
((A)) Sir Henry Berkeley, Bart of Wymondham (b 1566, a 1611, dsp)
  m1. _ Mynne
  m2. Katherine Beaumont (dau of Nicholas Beaumont of Cole Orton)
  ((B))+ other issue (d unm) - John, Nicholsa, Ursula
  ((2)) Edward Berkeley
  (B) Lawrence Berkeley
  (C) Elizabeth Berkeley
  m. Sir William Hussey of Sleaford (d 08.09.1495, attorney general, chief justice)
  (2) Elizabeth Berkeley (d 05.08.1494)
  BEB1841 identifies Elizabeth's husband as Sir William Hussey, lord chief justice, but the Visitation record shows that Elizabeth as of the next generation. We follow Visitation as the Hussey records identify his wife's father as Thomas rather than Laurence Berkeley. Visitation shows this Elizabeth as having married ...
  m. Sir John Bussey
  (3) Alice Berkeley
  m. Thomas Woodford
  ii. Thomas de Berkeley
  a. Elizabeth de Berkeley
  BEB1841 suggests that this was the Elizabeth who was married to Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, but TCP (Warwick) confirms that Richard's wife was another Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Lord.
  iii. Lawrence de Berkeley (a 1374)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (uploaded 01.11.04) : various web sites (including 'RootsWeb')
(2) For lower section (uploaded 03.05.05) : BEB1841 (Berkeley of Wymondham), Visitation (Leicestershire, 1619, Berkley of Wymondha' Leye)
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