Thomas Berkeley, 3d Baron Berkeley^{[1, 2, 3]}

Abt 1293 - 1361  (~ 68 years)

• Name	Thomas Berkeley
  		Berkeley Arms
  		Arms of Berkeley Gules, a chevron between 10 crosses patée argent, six in chief and four in base.
  Suffix	3d Baron Berkeley
  Nickname	"The Rich"
  Born	Abt 1293	Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire
  		Berkeley Castle Berkeley, Gloucestershire
  Gender	Male
  Military	23 - 24 Jun 1314	Bannockburn, Scotland
  	Battle of Bannockburn
  	Berkeley, along with his father, was taken prisoner at the Battle of Bannockburn, the signal English defeat by Robert Bruce during the First Scottish War of Independence.
  		Battle of Bannockburn 24 Jun 1314 (Day 2)
  Died	27 Oct 1361	Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire   [4]
  Person ID	I11052	Dickinson
  Last Modified	5 Dec 2017

  
  

  Father	Maurice de Berkeley, 2d Baron Berkeley,   b. ca. Apr 1271, Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire ,   d. 31 May 1326, Wallingford Castle, Wallingford, Oxfordshire  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Eve la Zouche,   d. 5 Dec 1314
  Relationship	Birth
  Married	1289  [7]
  	Ian Mortimer identifies Maltravers as Thomas de Berkeley's brother-in-law. [5, 6]
  Family ID	F2592	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret de Mortimer, Baroness Berkeley,   b. 2 May 1304,   d. 5 May 1337  (Age 33 years)
  Married	1320  [9]
  	"Afterwards, in May, Roger [de Mortimer] also probably attended the marriage of his eldest daughter Margaret with Thomas, the son and heir of Lord Berkeley, which secured an earlier alliance with an important lord of the Welsh Marches. Interestingly Berkeley and his adherent John Maltravers and Thomas Gurney had fallen out with the Earl of Pembroke [Aymer de Valence] at this time, and Berkeley's move towards Roger was a long-term political shift, not a mere interweaving of alliances but a vote of confidence in him as a leader." [8]
  Children	+ 1. Maurice "the Valiant" Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley,   b. Abt 1330, Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire ,   d. 8 Jun 1368, Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire  (Age ~ 38 years)  [Birth]   2. Roger Berkeley  [Birth]   3. Thomas Berkeley  [Birth]   4. Alphonsus Berkeley  [Birth]   5. Ione Berkeley  [Birth]
  Last Modified	31 May 2015
  Family ID	F3100	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Abt 1293 - Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire Military - Battle of Bannockburn - 23 - 24 Jun 1314 - Bannockburn, Scotland Died - 27 Oct 1361 - Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S336463] Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Charles Cawley, (Online: The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy at http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/, 20XX), http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#ThomasBerkeleydied1361. [S6] The Berkeley Manuscripts: The Lives of the Berkeleys, John Smythe, ed., (Gloucester: John Bellows, 1882), vol. 1, 333f. [S336470] Wikipedia, (Online: https://en.wikipedia.org), "Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Berkeley,_3rd_Baron_Berkeley. "In 1327 he was made joint custodian of the deposed King Edward II of England, whom he received at Berkeley Castle, but being commanded to deliver over the government to his fellow custodians, Lord Maltravers and Sir Thomas Gournay, he left there to go to Bradley with heavy cheere perceiving what violence was intended. As an accessory to the murder of the deposed king, he was tried by a jury of 12 knights in the 4th year of King Edward III of England, but was honourably acquitted." [S6] The Berkeley Manuscripts: The Lives of the Berkeleys, John Smythe, ed., (Gloucester: John Bellows, 1882), vol. 1, 357. [S163] The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330, Ian Mortimer, (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2003), 173. "The two new custodians, Sir John Maltravers and Thomas, Lord Berkeley, were among [Robert de Mortimer's] closest political supporters. * * * Maltravers was close to Berkeley too, being married to his sister and having previously been in the retinue of the Earl of Pembroke with him." The name Ela or Eva comes from his biography in the National Dictionary of Biography. [S336351] Dictionary of National Biography, 63 volumes, Sir Sidney Lee, ed., (New York: McMillan and Company, 1885-1900), Public Domain., 36: 6-7. [S6] The Berkeley Manuscripts: The Lives of the Berkeleys, John Smythe, ed., (Gloucester: John Bellows, 1882), 1: 115. [S163] The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330, Ian Mortimer, (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2003), 95. [S6] The Berkeley Manuscripts: The Lives of the Berkeleys, John Smythe, ed., (Gloucester: John Bellows, 1882), vol. 1, 345.