Maud Berkeley

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Biography

Father Maurice de Berkeley b. c 1120, d. 16 Jun 1190

Mother Alice de Berkeley b. c 1130


Maud de Berkeley was born circa 1170.

Maud de Berkeley married Helias IV Giffard, Lord Brimsfield, son of Helias III Gifford. [1]


Family

Helias IV Giffard, Lord Brimsfield b. c 1153
Child

Osbert Giffard b. c 1188, d. c 1247
Sources

? Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 73.
Marlyn_Lewis

Maud married Sir Elias Giffard, III in ~1177. Elias was born in ~1145 in (Brimsfield, Gloucestershire) England; died before 2 May 1248 in (Brimsfield) Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. SIr Elias Giffard, IV was born in ~1180 in Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England; died before 2 May 1248 in Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England.

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Notes

Maurice de Berkeley strengthened his tenure of Berkeley Castle by marrying, at the instigation of Henry II, Alice, dau. and heiress of the ousted lord, Roger de Berkeley, of Dursley. By this lady he had six sons, and was s. by the eldest,
Maurice de Berkeley. [John Burke, History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. I., R. Bentley, London, 1834-1838, p. 469, Berkeley, of Spetchley]

HOLDERS of the CASTLE of BERKELEY (V)

MAURICE FlTZ ROBERT FITZ HARDING, otherwise DE BERKELEY, feudal LORD OF BERKELEY, son and heir, who "may bee called Maurice the Make Peace, born about 1120, in Bristol, received (at the same date as his father) a confirmation of the grant of
Berkeley from Henry II, in 1155, and again 30 October 1189 from Queen Eleanor, Regent to her son Richard I. In 1190 he was Justice Itinerant in co. Gloucester. He enlarged the Castle of Berkeley, which thenceforth became the chief seat of, and
gave the name to, the family. He married, in 1153 or 1154, at Bristol, Alice, 1st daughter (but not heir or coheir) of his dispossessed predecessor, Roger DE BERKELEY, feudal Lord of Dursley (formerly "fermer" of Berkeley), with whom he had the
manor of Slimbridge, as by agreement between their respective fathers. He died 16 June 1190, and was buried in the church of Brentford, Middlesex. His widow died at an " extreame old age." Complete Peerage II:126
Maurice de Berkeley (son of Robert FitzHardinge, upon whom, for his attachment to the Empress Maud, had been conferred the lordship of Berkeley and Berkeley Hernesse, the confiscated possessions of Roger de Berkeley, the adherent of King
Stephen; but, to reconcile the parties, King Henry, who had restored to Roger his manor and castle of Dursley, caused an agreement to be concluded between them that the heiress of the ousted lord should be given to marriage to the heir of the
new baron; and thus passed the feudal castle of Berkeley to another chief; which Maurice de Berkeley became feudal lord of Berkeley upon the decease of his brother, Henry, and dying in 1189, left six sons, and was s. by the eldest, Robert de
Berkeley. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 44, Berkeley, Viscount Berkeley, Earl of Nottingham, and Marquess of Berkeley]

Sources

The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968. Page: 120
Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 Page: 254
Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 Page: II:125-6
Smyth, John. The Berkeley Manuscripts (J. Bellows, Gloucester, 1883-85) Page 3-4

Maurice married Alice FitzHarding in ~ 1153 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]