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BERKELEY 127 Margaret, sister of William (Marshal), Earl of Pembroke, and da. of John Marshal. He ^.29 Nov. 1243, aged about 73, and was bur. at St. Augustine's afsd. His widow was living (1273-74) 2 Edw. I. VIII. 1243. 5. Maurice DE Berkeley, feudal Lord OF Berkeley, s. and h., who " may bee called Maurice the Resolute" b. 12 1 8. He attended the wars with France and afterwards with North Wales. Was knighted before 1242. He did homage and had livery of his father's lands, 14 Dec. 1243. He joined the Barons against the King (1264) 48 Hen. Ill, was present at the award of Kenilworth (1267) 51 Hen. Ill, at the Council at Marlborough 52 Hen. Ill, and at the various assemblies (1275-79) 3, 4, 6, and 7 Edw. I. He w., before 12 July 1247, Isabel,(^) da. of Richard Fitzroy (illeglt. s. of King John), by Rohese, da. and h. of Robert of Dover.C") On 10 Aug. 1264, the King, out of compassion for the poverty of his niece, Isabel, the wife of Maurice de Berkeley, granted her certain manors. She d. 7 July, probably in the year 1276 to 1277, and was bur. at St. Augustine's afsd. He d. 4 Apr. 128 1, aged 63, "being his great clymactericoll yeare," and was bur. at St. Augustine's afsd. Writ for Inq.p. m. 5 Apr. 128 i. BARONY BY i. Thomas de Berkeley, feudal Lord of Berkeley, WRIT. 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h.,(0 who "may bee called T Thomas the Wise." He was b. at Berkeley 1245, was at "•'* the battle of Evesham when under age, and was for nearly every year for the last 50 years of his life " employed either against the Welsh, the Scots, or the French." He was sum. to attend the King at Shrewsbury 28 June (1283) 1 1 Edw. I ('^) by writ directed Thome de Berkel which writ was actually treated in the Mowbray case (1877) as one which cr. an hereditary Peerage. On 24 June (1295) 23 Edw. I, he was sum. to Pari, by writ directed Thome de Berkekgh whereby he may be held to have become LORD BERKELEY. (') He continued to be so sum. till 15 May (1321) 14 Edw. II. He was made Vice-Constable of England in acquired many years later by Roger de Somery in consequence of his marriage with Nicole d'Aubigny, niece and coh. of Ranulph, Earl of Chester. That Ralph's wife, Margaret (she afterwards m. Maurice de Gaunt), was one of the two sisters of William, Earl of Pembroke, seems to depend on Smyth's statement alone. But the Earl's other sister was certainly the wife of Robert de Pont de I'Arche [UHistoire dt GuUlaume le Marechal, 1. 7265) as stated by Smyth and in the text above, [ex infirm. G. W. Watson). V.G. if) The old idea (held by Vincent, Sandford, is'c.) that she was an illegit. da. of Richard, Earl of Cornwall (yr. br. of Henry III), or of his s. and h., Edmund, also Earl of Cornwall, is refuted in Smyth's Berkeley's, vol. i, p. 144. C") G. J. Turner, in The Genealogist, Oct. 1905." (') Maurice, his elder br., was killed in a tournament at Kenilworth, v.p., in 1279. C) For a discussion on this and other supposed Paris., see Preface. (*) As to how far these early writs of summons did in fact create any peerage title, see Appendix A in the last volume. V.G.