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MAURICE DE BERKELEY, feudal LORD OF BERKELEY, son and heir, who " may bee called Maurice the Resolute," born 1218. 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 December 1243. He joined the Barons against the King in 1264, was present at the award of Kenilworth in 1267, at the Council at MarlboroughI, and at the various assemblies (1275-79). He married, before 12 July 1247, Isabel, daughter of Richard FITZROY (illegitimate son of King John), by Rose, daughter and heir of Foubert de Douvres. On 10 August 1264, the King, out of compassion for the poverty of his niece, Isabel, the wife of Maurice de Berkeley, granted her certain manors. She died 7 July, probably in the year 1276 or 1277, and was buried at St. Augustine's. He died 4 April 1281, aged 63, " being his great clymactericoll yeare, " and was buried at St. Augustine's.* [Complete Peerage II:131, XIV:87]
*Note: St. Augustine's is now Bristol Cathedral. Only remnants of the original abbey are left (per Wikipedia).
(bio by Darrell and Joan Mansur)

Birth	1218
Death	1281

Spouse	Isabel Fitzroy (1220 - 1277)
Child	Sir Thomas de Berkley 1st Baron (1245 - 1321)

Father	Lord Thomas Berkley (1170 - 1243)
Mother	Baroness Joan de Somery (1191 - 1276)