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Thomas "The Rich" De BERKELEY, 3rd Lord[1]
Cal 1293 - 1361 (~ 68 years)-
Name Thomas "The Rich" De BERKELEY Suffix 3rd Lord Nickname The Rich Birth Cal 1293 Berkeley, Glouchester, England 
Gender Male AFN 91VB-RD Name The Rich _UID 01F11312AD9644E0A4E934F5FE6F1145F765 Death 27 Oct 1361 Berkeley, Glouchester, England Person ID I14264 Carney Wehofer July 2025 Last Modified 5 Feb 2012
Father Maurice "The Magnanimous" De BERKELEY, Sir/Lord, b. Apr 1281, Of Berkeley Castle, Gloucester, ENG d. 31 May 1326, Wallingford Castle, Berskshire, ENG (Age ~ 45 years) Mother Eva La ZOUCHE, b. Of Haryngworth, Northampton, Eng (Bef 1/8/1289) d. 15 Dec 1314 Marriage 1289 (His 1St Marr., Both Under 8 Yrs) Family ID F7353 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Margaret De MORTIMER, b. 1308, Berkeley, Glouchester, England d. 5 May 1337, Berkeley, Glouchester, England (Age 29 years) Marriage 3 Jul 1320 Charfield, Gloucester, Eng (His 1St Marr.) Children 1. Maurice De BERKELEY, Lord, b. Berkeley, Glouchester, England d. Aug 1368, (Or 3 Jun) 2. Joane De BERKELEY, Baroness, b. Abt 1321, Berkeley, Glouchester, England d. 2 Oct 1369 (Age ~ 48 years)Family ID F7350 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
Family 2 Katherine De CLYVEDON, b. Abt 1310, Charfield, Glouchester, ENG d. 13 Mar 1385, Berkeley, Glouchester, England (Age ~ 75 years) Marriage 30 May 1347 Charfield, Co. Gloucester, Eng (Both 2ND Marr., Or 3 Jun) Children 1. Sir. John De BERKELEY, Baron, b. 21 Jan 1351, Wotton, Glouchester, ENG d. 1428, Of Beverston, Glouchester, ENG (Age 76 years)Family ID F7346 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
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Notes - OCCUPATION: Lord Berkeley, Marshal of English army in France 1340; Captain of the Scottish Marches 1342Thomas, 3rd baron, m. 1st, Margaret, dau. of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, and 2ndly, in 1347, Catherine, dau. of Sir John Clyvedon, widow of Sir Peter le Veel. This lord having adhered to the interest of the Queen, Mortimer, and Prince Edward, afterwards the third of that name, furnished "the only precedent," says Smith, "of a peer being tried by knights, as the peers would have been both judges and jurors." He first assumed a mitre for his crest. He was summoned to parliament from 1329 to 1360. He had issue by his 1st wife, besides his heir, three sons, who d. s. p., and one dau., Joan, wife of Sir Reginald Cobham; by his 2nd wife, had had, with three sons, who d. s. p., a 4th, John, ancestor of the Berkeleys of Beverstone. He d. 1361 and was s. by his son, Maurice, 4th baron. [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]
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- OCCUPATION: Lord Berkeley, Marshal of English army in France 1340; Captain of the Scottish Marches 1342Thomas, 3rd baron, m. 1st, Margaret, dau. of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, and 2ndly, in 1347, Catherine, dau. of Sir John Clyvedon, widow of Sir Peter le Veel. This lord having adhered to the interest of the Queen, Mortimer, and Prince Edward, afterwards the third of that name, furnished "the only precedent," says Smith, "of a peer being tried by knights, as the peers would have been both judges and jurors." He first assumed a mitre for his crest. He was summoned to parliament from 1329 to 1360. He had issue by his 1st wife, besides his heir, three sons, who d. s. p., and one dau., Joan, wife of Sir Reginald Cobham; by his 2nd wife, had had, with three sons, who d. s. p., a 4th, John, ancestor of the Berkeleys of Beverstone. He d. 1361 and was s. by his son, Maurice, 4th baron. [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]
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Sources - [S641] Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots Of Sixty Colonists Who Came To New England Between 1623 And 1650, (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1992).
- [S641] Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots Of Sixty Colonists Who Came To New England Between 1623 And 1650, (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1992).