Sir Maurice Berkeley, MP

Family and Education

b. bef. 1514, 2nd s. of Richard Berkeley of Stoke by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Humphrey Coningsby. m. (1) Catherine (d.1560), da. of William Blount, 4th Lord Mountjoy, wid. of John Champernown (d.c.1541) of Modbury, Devon, 3s. inc. Edward and Henry Berkeley II 5da.; (2) 1562, Elizabeth, da. of Anthony Sands of Throwley, Kent, 2s. inc. Robert 1da. Kntd. 30 Sept. 1544.

Biographies

• History of Parliament Online
• Wikipedia

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"Sir Maurice Berkeley of Bruton, in Somersetshire, who had been standard-bearer to Henry VIII, and (in the rebellion that so seriously threatened that monarch's daugther, Queen Mary) had received the surrender of Sir Thomas Wyatt, taking up that ill-fated person on his own horse for his better temporary security. The Berkeleys of Bruton sprang from a warlike race descended from Eadnoth the Staller, Sheriff of Bristol, under Edward the Confessor, Harold and William. There had been few of the greater battles of England in which the FitzHardings, Barons of Berkeley, (the descendants of Eadnoth's son Harding), had not taken part -- Hastings, the wars of Stephen, the Welsh Wars, Caerlaverock and Bannockburn, Crecy, Calais, the French Wars of the Duke of Bedford, and the Battle of Bosworth. The Tudors had few more loyal or hard-fighting followers." -- The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Fifth Series, Vol. 33, No. 2, [Fifth Series, Vol. 13] (Jun. 30, 1903), pp. 153-174 (22 pages)