Maurice de Berkeley, 2d Baron Berkeley^{[1, 2]}

1271 - 1326  (~ 55 years)

• Name	Maurice de Berkeley
  		Berkeley Arms
  Suffix	2d Baron Berkeley
  Nickname	"The Magnanimous"
  Born	ca. Apr 1271	Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England   [3, 4]
  		Berkeley Castle Berkeley, Gloucestershire
  Gender	Male
  Title	22 May 1306	Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England   [5]
  	Feast of the Swans
  	Berkeley, along with 265 other magnates, was knighted by Edward, prince of Wales (subsequently, Edward II).
  Military	23 - 24 Jun 1314	Bannockburn, Scotland
  	Battle of Bannockburn
  	Berkeley was part of the larger English force that was routed by Robert Bruce.
  		Battle of Bannockburn 24 Jun 1314 (Day 2)
  Residence	Jan 1323	Wallingford Castle, Wallingford, Oxfordshire   [6]
  	Attempted Escape
  	Having surrendered himself to the king along with the Mortimers, Berkeley found himself imprisoned at Wallingford Castle.
  Died	31 May 1326	Wallingford Castle, Wallingford, Oxfordshire   [7]
  Buried	Bristol Cathedral, Bristol, Glouchester
  		Baron Maurice Berkeley Bristol Cathedral
  		Baron Maurice Berkeley
  Person ID	I11287	Dickinson
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley, MP,   b. 1245, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. 23 Jul 1321, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England  (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Joan de Ferrers,   d. 19 Mar 1310
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F3186	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Eve la Zouche,   d. 5 Dec 1314
  Married	1289  [4]
  	Ian Mortimer identifies Maltravers as Thomas de Berkeley's brother-in-law. [8, 9]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Berkeley, 3d Baron Berkeley,   b. Abt 1293, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. 27 Oct 1361, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England  (Age ~ 68 years)  [Birth] + 2. Maurice Berkeley of Uley,   b. 1298, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. 1347, Calais, France  (Age 49 years)  [Birth] + 3. Isabel de Berkeley, Lady Clifford,   d. 25 Jul 1362  [Birth] + 4. Ela de Berkeley, Lady Maltravers  [Birth]
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2020
  Family ID	F2592	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Isabel de Clare,   b. 10 Mar 1263,   d. After 1322  (Age 59 years)
  Married	ca. 1316
  	No issue.
  Last Modified	5 Dec 2017
  Family ID	F6251	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S336463] Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Charles Cawley, (Online: The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/, 20XX), http://bit.ly/3orn379. [S336470] Wikipedia, (Online: https://en.wikipedia.org), "Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley" at https://bit.ly/35BfYIE. [S336463] Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Charles Cawley, (Online: The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/, 20XX). [S6] The Berkeley Manuscripts: The Lives of the Berkeleys, John Smythe, ed., (Gloucester: John Bellows, 1882), 1: 115. [S163] The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330, Ian Mortimer, (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2003), 23. [S163] The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330, Ian Mortimer, (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2003), 129. [S6] The Berkeley Manuscripts: The Lives of the Berkeleys, John Smythe, ed., (Gloucester: John Bellows, 1882), 1: 272. [S163] The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330, Ian Mortimer, (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2003), 173. "The two new custodians, Sir John Maltravers and Thomas, Lord Berkeley, were among [Robert de Mortimer's] closest political supporters. * * * Maltravers was close to Berkeley too, being married to his sister and having previously been in the retinue of the Earl of Pembroke with him." The name Ela or Eva comes from his biography in the National Dictionary of Biography. [S336351] Dictionary of National Biography, 63 volumes, Sir Sidney Lee, ed., (New York: McMillan and Company, 1885-1900), Public Domain., 36: 6-7.