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BERKELEY 129 Aquitaine, 1320. Shortly afterwards he joined the Earl of Lancaster in the rebellion against Edward II and the Despenser family, and within 6 months of his father's death was sent prisoner to Wallingford Castle, 20 Jan. 132 1/2, where he d. about 4 years afterwards. He m.^ istly, (1289) 17 Edw. I (neither party being aged over 8),(^) Eve, sister of William LA ZoucHE [Lord Zouche of Haryngworth], and da. of Eudes la ZoucHE, by Milicent, da. of William de Cantelou, of Bergavenny. She d. 5 Dec. 1 3 14, and was bur. in Portbury Church, Somerset. He w., 2ndly, about 13 16, Isabel, da. of Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by his ist wife, Alice, da. of Hugh XI, called le Brun, Sire DE LUSIGNAN, CoUNT OF LA MaRCHE AND ANGOULfeME (uterinC br. of Henry III). C') He d'., as afsd., 3 1 May 1 326, and was ^«r. at Wallingford, but removed to St. Augustine's, Bristol. (') Inq. p. m. Feb. (1326/7) i Edw. III. His widow, who was b. 10 Mar. 1262/3, ("*) d. s.p., (1333) 7 Edw. III. III. 1326. 3. Thomas (de Berkeley), Lord Berkeley, s. and h. by ist wife, who "may bee called Thomas the Ritch." Knighted before 1322, and aged 30 and upwards at his father's death. He fought at Boroughbridge, 16 Mar. 132 1/2, and was taken prisoner.(') He was released from imprisonment in Pevensey Castle on 16 Oct. 1326, and on 4 Apr. 1327, was made Joint Custodian of the deposed King, Edward II, whom he "curteously received" the next day at Berkeley Castle, but being commanded to deliver over the government thereof to his fellow custodians, departed therefrom to Bradley, "with heavy cheere perceiving what violence was intended." He was tried by a jury of 12 Knights (without protest) in (1330-1) 4 Edw. Ill (^ as an accessory to the murder (^) of the deposed King, but was acquitted. In 1328 he was in the expedition against Scotland. From 14 June (1329) 3 Edw. Ill to 20 Nov. (1360) 34 Edw. Ill, he was sum. to Parl.jC") the last two writs having the (*) Lives of the Berieieys, by Smyth of Nibley. C") Vincent's Errours in Brooke, p. 223. (■=) From his 2nd son, Maurice, descend the Berkeleys of Stoke Gifford, co. Gloucester (Lords Botetourt), the Berkeleys of Stratton, Cornw.ill (Lords Berkeley of Stratton), and the Berkeleys of Pyll, of which families the last is now (1911) represented in the male line by Viscount Portman. C^j " 1262 [1262/3]. Gillbertode Clare filio Ricardi comitis Gloucestrie, nondum cincto gladio militari, nascitur filia nomine Isabella, vi idus Martii, de uxore sua Alicia filia comitis Marchie." {Jnnaleide Theoiesberia, p. 169; ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G. (') For an account of this battle see Appendix C in this volume. See Lords' Reports, vol i, p. 300. (8) This was perpetrated with horrible barbarity by Sir John Mautravers and Sir Thomas Gurnay, the then custodians of the castle. See a detailed account in Smyth's Berkeleys, vol. i, p. 29 1, confirming the allusion in Gray's Bard to " The shrieks of death thro' Berkeley's roof that ring — Shrieks of an agonising King." C") There is proof in the Rolls of Pari, of his sitting. 18