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BERKELEY 137 on 9 Sep. 1 5 13 was in command at the battle of Flodden, receiving Knight- hood the same day from the Earl of Surrey. Constable of Berkeley Castle 15 May (15 14) 6 Hen. VIII. SherifFofco. Gloucester Nov. 1522 to Nov. 1523. On 9 Aug. (1529) 21 Hen. VIII he was sum. to Pari, by writ directed Thome Berkley de Berkley. (^') He w., istly, (1504-5) 20 Hen. VII, Eleanor, widow of John Ingleby, of Ripley, co. York, da. of Sir Marmaduke Constable, of Flamborough, co. York, by his 2nd wife, Joyce, da. of Sir Humphrey Stafford, of Grafton. She d. 1525, and was bur. at St. Augustine's, Bristol. He w., 2ndly, in 1526, Cicely, widow of Richard RowDON, of Gloucester, da. and coh. of, apparently ( ) Arnold, of co. Gloucester. He^/. at Mangotsfield, Bristol, 22 Jan. 1532/3, in his 6istyear, and was bur. at St. Augustine's afsd. Will dat. 28 Apr. 1532 to 11 Jan. 1532/3, pr. 6 June 1533. His widow, "called my Lady Cicely of Bristol^' d. between July and Nov. 1558, at Bristol, and was bur. at St. Augustine's afsd. VI. 1533. 6. Thomas (Berkeley), Lord BerkeleYjC") s. and h. by I St wife, who "may bee called Thomas the Hopefull." He was b. at Hovingham, co. York, 1505, and ed. at St. Omer in Artois. K.G. at the coronation of Anne Boleyn, 1533. He was sum. to the Pari, held 5 Jan. (1533/4) 25 Hen. VIII, (*) and, though not in possession of the Berkeley estates, was ranked in the precedency of his ancestors as third Baron on the roll.(°) Constable and Porter of Berkeley Castle, and Keeper of the Park, 8 Mar. 1532/3. He w., istly, in 1526, Mary,('^) da. of George (Hastings), Earl of Huntingdon (1529), by Anne, da. of Henry (Stafford), Duke of Buckingham. She d. s.p., IVlar. 1532/3. He w., 2ndly, (shortly afterwards) Apr. 1533, Anne, da. of Sir John Savage, of Frodsham, co. Chester, by Anne, da. of Ralph Bostock. He d. 1 9, and was bur. 22 Sep. 1534, at Stone, near Aylesbury, Bucks. His widow d. Oct. 1564, aged 58, at Callowdon, co. Warwick, and was bur. at St. Michael's, Coventry.(°) Admon. 21 Jan. 1^6.^./^. (*) The important point ofthese writs (15 29 and 1534) having been issued to these Barons respectively, is, strange to say, not mentioned in the lives of them in Smyth's Berie/eys, though the fact is referred to at p. 56 of the same vol. (vol. ii) at the end of Smyth's arguments for the precedency of the Barony of Berkeley. C') See note " c " on previous page. C^) For a list of persons sum. in the name of, and anomalously granted the pre- cedency of an ancient Barony to which they were not entitled by descent, see vol. i, Appendix D. ("*) This lady is said to have been "affected in marriage by the Czar of Russia, her beauty being so great." (=) She was "overpowerful with her husband and seldom at rest with herself . . . Of complexion of a comely brown, of a middle stature. Betimes in winter and summer mornings, she would make her walks to visit her stables, barns, day house, poultry, swine troughs, and the like." V.G. 19