BERKELEY, Sir Maurice I (1401-64), of Uley and Stoke Gifford, Glos. and Weoley, Worcs.

Family and Education

b. Stoke Gifford 2 Feb. 1401, C139/8/80. posthumous s. and h. of Sir Maurice Berkeley† (1358-1400) of Uley and Stoke Gifford, by Joan (d.1412), da. of Sir John Dynham of Hartland, Devon. m. by Sept. 1429, Eleanor (fl.1475), da. of Sir William Mountfort* by his 1st. w., R. Atkyns, Glos. 368. at least 3s. inc. William†. Kntd. by Apr. 1422.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. election, Glos. 1422.

Sheriff, Glos. 5 Nov. 1430 – 26 Nov. 1431, 8 Nov. 1436 – 7 Nov. 1437.

Commr. to treat for loans, Leics., Warws. Mar. 1431, Glos. [? Mar. 1439, Nov. 1440, Mar., May, Aug. 1442], May 1455; PPC, vi. 241. to assess a tax Jan. 1436; take an assize of novel disseisin, Warws. Nov. 1437; C66/441, rot. 32d. [?of gaol delivery, Gloucester castle Mar. 1446]; C66/461, rot. 8d. inquiry, Glos. Feb. 1448 (concealments); arrest, Warws. July 1453. It is sometimes impossible to tell whether it was he or his namesake Sir Maurice Berkeley II of Beverstone castle, Glos. who was appointed to comms. in the county, especially in the years when they sat together on the local bench.

J.p. Glos. 1 June 1432-Nov. 1441, The comm. of 28 Apr. 1437 addressed to Sir Maurice Berkeley ‘the younger’ (C66/440, rot. 47d) is wrongly ascribed in the calendar, CPR, 1436–41, p. 582, to Sir Maurice Berkeley of Beverstone. Worcs. 18 Feb. 1446 – Nov. 1451.

Parlimentarian

BERKELEY, Sir Maurice I (1401-64), of Uley and Stoke Gifford, Glos. and Weoley, Worcs.

Main residences: Uley; Stoke Gifford, Glos.; Weoley, Worcs.

Author

L.S.C.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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