James de Berkeley

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Bluet. Elizabeth was born in 1355 in Rhaglan, Usk, Monmouthshire, England; died in 1405. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James De Berkeley was born in 1394 in Raglan, Monmouthshire, England; died in Nov 1463 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England.

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4th Lord de Berkeley
9th Baron by tenure

Maurice fought in the Battle of Poitiers on 19 Sep 1356, Where he distinguished himself, but was severely wounded and taken prisoner. He gained the title of the 4th Lord de Berkeley on 27 Oct 1361, by writ.

Maurice married Elizabeth Despencer. Elizabeth (daughter of Hugh le Despencer and Eleanore de Clare) was born in 1326 in Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England; died on 13 Jul 1389. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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8th Baron by tenure

Thomas was invested as a Knight before 1322. He fought in the Battle of Boroughbridge on 16 Mar 1321/22 and was taken prisoner. He was succeeded to the title of the 3rd Lord de Berkeley on 31 May 1326, by writ. On 16 Oct 1326, he was released from Pevensey Castle. He was named Joint Custodian of the disposed king, King Edward II on 4 Apr 1327 at Berkeley Castle. He fought in the expedition against Scotland in 1328. In 1330/31, he was tried by a jury of 12 knights as an accessory to the murder of the disposed king, but was acquitted (actually performed by Sir John Maltravers). Thomas held the office of Chief Warden of Worcestershire, Chief Warden of Herefordshire and Chief Warden of Gloucestershire in 1336. He held the position of Marshall of the English Army in France in 1340. Thomas held the office of the Captain of the Scottish Marches in 1342. He held the office of Warden and Chief Justice in Eyre South of Trent between 1345 and 1348. Thomas held the the office of an Embassy to Pope Innocent VI in 1361.

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Thomas married Margaret De Mortimer. Margaret (daughter of Roger Mortimer and Joan De Geneville) was born in 1308 in Berkeley , Gloucestershire, England; died on 05 May 1337. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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3rd Lord le Despenser

Hugh married Eleanore de Clare. Eleanore (daughter of Gilbert (the Red) de Clare and Joan) was born in Oct 1292 in Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales; died on 30 Jun 1337 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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7th Baron by tenure

Between 1295 and 1308, Maurice was summoned to Parliment by writ, whereby he may have been held to have been created Lord le Berkeley in his own right, although there is no actual record of his having sat in Parliment. Maurice fought in the Scottish Wars between 1295 and 1318 where he distinguished himself. He fought in the Siege of Carlaverock in July 1300. Maurice succeeded to the title 2nd Lord le Berkeley on 16 Aug 1308, by writ, in the lifetime of his father. He held the office of Warden of Gloucestershire in 1312 and the office of Captain of Berwick in 1315. He held the offices of Chief Justiciar of South Wales and Commissioner to Scotland in 1316. He joined the Earl of Lancaster in the rebellion against King Edward II. Maurice held the office of Seneschal of Aquitaine in 1320. On 6 Jan 1321/22 he was sent prisoner to Wallingford Castle where he died.

Maurice married Eve La Zouche. Eve was born in 1281 in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England; died on 05 Dec 1314. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Baroness Berkeley

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Earl of March

Roger married Joan De Geneville. Joan was born on 02 Feb 1285 in Ludlow , Shropshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1356. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Heiress of Trim Castle

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2nd Lord le Despenser

Hugh married Isabella de Beauchamp. Isabella was born in 1252 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England; died on 30 May 1306 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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3rd Earl of Gloucester

He was a powerful Norman noble. Also known as `Red` Gilbert de Clare, probably because of his hair color, he built Caerphilly Castle.
Gilbert inherited his father`s estates in 1262 and took on the titles, including Lord of Glamorgan, in 1263.
Being under age at his father`s death, he was a ward of Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford. In April 1264, he led the massacre of the Jews at Canterbury, as Simon de Montfort had done in London. Gilbert de Clare`s castles of Kingston and Tonbridge were taken by the King. However the King allowed his Countess, who was in the latter, to go free because she was his niece; and on 12 May he and Montfort were denounced as traitors. Two days later, just before the battle of Lewes, on 14 May, Montfort knighted the Earl and his brother Thomas. The Earl commanded the second line of the battle and took the King prisoner, having hamstrung his horse. As Prince Edward had also been captured, Montfort and the Earl were now supreme. On 20 October 1264, the Gilbert and his associates were excommunicated by the Papal Legate, and his lands placed under an interdict.
In the following month, by which time they had obtained possession of Gloucester and Bristol, the Prince and the Earl were proclaimed to be rebels. They at once entered on an active campaign, the Earl, in order to prevent Montfort`s escape, destroying ships at Bristol and the Bridge over the Severn. He shared the Prince`s victory at Kenilworth on 16 July, and in the battle Evesham, 4 August, in which Montfort was slain. He commanded the second division and contributed largely to the victory. The castle of Abergavenny was committed to his charge on 25 October and on the 29th the honor of Brecknock was added.
On 24 June 1268 he took the Cross at Northampton. At Michaelmas his disputes with Llewelyn were submitted to arbitration, but without a final settlement. At the end of the year 1268 he refused to obey the King`s summons to attend Parliament, alleging that, owing to the constant inroads of Llewelyn, his Welsh estates needed his presence for their defense. At the death of Henry III, 16 November 1272, the Earl took the lead in swearing fealty to Edward I, who was then in Sicily on his return from the Crusade. The next day, with the Archbishop of York, he entered London and proclaimed peace to all, Christians and Jews, and for the first time, secured the acknowledgment of the right of the King`s eldest son to succeed to the throne immediately. Thereafter he was joint Guardian of England, during the King`s absence, and on his arrival in England, in August 1274, entertained him at Tonbridge Castle.
His first marriage to Alice floundered, and they separated in 11267; allegedly, Alice`s affections lay with her cousin, Prince Edward.
After his marriage to Alice de Lusignan was finally annulled in 1285, he married Joan of Acre, a daughter of King Edward I of England and his wife, Eleanor of Castile. By the provisions of the marriage contract, their joint possessions could only be inherited by a direct descendant. On 3 July 1290 the Earl gave a great banquet at Clerkenwell to celebrate his marriage of 30 April 1290. Thereafter, he and she are said to have taken the Cross and set out for the Holy Land, but in September he signed the Barons` letter to the Pope, and on 2 November surrendered to the King his claim to the advowson of the bishorpric of Llandaff. In the next year, 1291, his quarrels with the Earl of Hereford about Brecknock culminated in a private war between them. Both were imprisoned by the King, and the Earl of Gloucester, as the aggressor, was fined 10,000 marks, and the Earl of Hereford 1,000 marks. He died at Monmouth Castle on 7 December 1295, and was buried at Tewkesbury, on the left side of his grandfather Gilbert de Clare.

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Gilbert married Joan in 1290 in Westminster Abbey, London, England. Joan (daughter of Edward, I and Eleanor de Castilla) was born in Apr 1272 in Akko, Hazafon, Israel; died on 23 Apr 1307 in Clare , Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joan got her name from her birthplace, Akko (Acre), Hazofan, Palestine. It differentiates her from an earlier Joan born to her parents, who died in infancy. Joan of Acre was born while her parents were traveling to the Middle East on the Seventh Crusade. At least part of her childhood she spent in France with her maternal grandmother, Jeanne de Dammartin, Countess of Ponthieu. She was betrothed as a child to Hartman, son of King Rudolph I of Germany, but he died in 1282 after drowning in the Rhine.
In 1290, at Westminster Abbey, Joan married Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford. He was nearly 30 years her senior.
Following her husband`s death in 1295, Joan clandestinely married Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer, a knight in her household, in 1297. Her father, King Edward I, was enraged by this lowly second marriage, especially since he was arranging a marriage for her to an Italian nobleman. He had Monthermer thrown in prison, and Joan had to plead for the release of her husband. According to the St. Albans chronicler, she told her father, `No one sees anything wrong if a great earl marries a poor and lowly woman. Why should there be anything wrong if a countess marries a young and promising man?` At last her father relented, released Monthermer from prison in August 1297, and allowed him to hold the title of Earl of Gloucester and Hereford during Joan`s lifetime.
Joan died in childbirth in 1307 at the manor of Clare in Suffolk, England, a family possession, and was buried at the Augustinian priory there. Her child was stillborn. Miracles were said to occur at her grave, especially the healing of toothache, back pain and fever.

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Birth:
Acre
Akko, Palestine