Sir Richard Berkeley, Kt., MP

• Sir Richard Berkeley1
• M, #118871, b. 1531, d. 1605
• Last Edited=17 Jul 2012
• Sir Richard Berkeley was born in 1531 at Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England.2,3 He was the son of Sir John Berkeley and Isabel Elizabeth Dennis.1,3 He died in 1605 at Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England.2,3
• He lived at Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England.4
• Child of Sir Richard Berkeley
  • 1.Henry Berkeley+1 d. 1606
• Children of Sir Richard Berkeley and Elizabeth Ann Reade
  • 1.Catharine Berkeley+4
  • 2.Elizabeth Berkeley3
  • 3.Dorothy Berkeley3
  • 4.Ann Berkeley3
  • 5.Henry Berkeley3
  • 6.Henry Berkeley3
  • 7.Mary Berkeley3 b. 1565, d. 1628
• Children of Sir Richard Berkeley and Elizabeth Jermy
  • 1.Henry Berkeley3
  • 2.William Berkeley3
  • 3.Elizabeth Berkeley3
  • 4.Catherine Berkeley3
  • 5.Ane Berkeley3
  • 6.Dorothy Berkeley3
  • 7.Mary Berkeley+3 b. 1564
• Citations
• 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 234. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2.[S480] Unknown author, The M (n.p.: n.pub., unknown publish date).
• 3.[S4132] Robin J Conisbee Wood, online <e-mail address>, Robin J Conisbee Wood (unknown location), downloaded 23 November 2009.
• 4.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2292. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p11888.htm#i118871 __________________
• Sir Richard Berkeley
• M, #70132, b. circa 1525, d. 26 April 1605
• Father Sir John Berkeley b. c 1510, d. 28 Jun 1546
• Mother Isabel Dennis b. c 1509
• Sir Richard Berkeley was born circa 1525 at of Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England.1 He married Elizabeth Ann Reade, daughter of William Reade, Burgess of Cricklade and Catherine Rowdon, circa 1543. Sir Richard Berkeley died on 26 April 1605 at England.
• Family Elizabeth Ann Reade b. c 1520
• Children
  • Elizabeth Berkeley+ b. c 1544
  • Mary Berkeley+2 b. c 1558, d. 8 Jul 1628
• Citations
• 1.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 38.
• 2.[S13] Worldroots.com.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2334.htm#... _____________________
• Richard Berkeley (died 1604)
• See his profile Documents or Wikipedia
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Berkeley_(died_1604) _______________________
• BERKELEY, Sir Richard (1531-1604), of Stoke Gifford, Glos.
• Family and Education
• b. 18 Apr. 1531, o.s. of Sir John Berkeley of Stoke Gifford and Isabel, da. of Sir William Denys of Dyrham, Glos. m. (1) by 1559, Elizabeth, da. of William Rede† of Mitton, Worcs. and Tewkesbury, Glos., 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 5da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) by 1593, Eleanor (d. 17 Mar. 1629), da. of Robert Jermy of Antingham, Norf. and wid. of Robert Rowe (d.1587), Haberdasher, of London, s.p. suc. fa. 1545;1 kntd. 21 Aug. 1574.2 d. 26 Apr. 1604.3
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Glos. by 1559-d., Mdx. 1596-d.;4 sheriff, Glos. 1564-5;5 commr. victuals, Glos. 1573,6 tanning 1574, eccles. causes, Bristol and Gloucester diocs. 1574;7 member, Council in Marches of Wales 1590-at least 1602;8 commr. musters, Mdx. 1596; dep. lt. Glos. 1601-at least 1603;9 commr. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. by 1598-d., Wales and the Marches 1602.10
  • Lt. of the Tower 1596-7.11
• Biography
• The Berkeleys of Stoke Gifford, five miles north-east of Bristol, were descended from a younger son of Maurice, Lord Berkeley, who died in 1326, and first produced a Member for Gloucestershire in 1391.12 Berkeley’s father was killed at sea in 1545, and his wardship was granted to the secretary of state, Sir William Paget*, who probably sold it back to the family.13 Berkeley reportedly struck the sheriff in front of the assize judges in 1569 and subsequently spent some time travelling in Italy.14 He was described as a Catholic in 1582 by a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, possibly because he had married two of his children into the Throckmorton family.15 However he seems to have been a well-regarded local administrator and was included in a list of ‘gentlemen of good consideration in Gloucestershire’ prepared for Lord Burghley (William Cecil†).16 He was nonetheless excused from the Loan collectorship of 1589, ‘forasmuch as the said Sir Richard, by reason of the Parliament and other businesses, cannot attend that charge’. He was not a Member of this Parliament, although his son-in-law Sir Thomas Throckmorton was one of the Gloucestershire knights. The two were summoned before the Council in 1590, accused of favouring Lord Berkeley against the countess of Warwick at quarter sessions.
• Berkeley started seeking preferment at Court in the 1590s. His name was associated with several offices, although his only appointment was to the lieutenancy of the Tower.17 He held the post for only a few months as, according to the Jesuit John Gerard, over whose torture he presided, he ‘freely resigned ... because he no longer wished to be an instrument in such torture of innocent men’.18 In 1598 he dedicated A Discourse of the Felicitie of Man to Elizabeth, finding that quality to lie not in pleasure, wealth, worldly honour, nor even in virtue, but in Heaven. Described as ‘a scissors-and-paste job on a grand scale’, the book displays wide reading in the classics, scripture, the church fathers and more recent authors and demonstrates that Berkeley could read Latin and Italian. Although virulently anti-Catholic, the work displays little understanding of Protestant theology: Berkeley acknowledged his limitations in this regard, and submitted himself to ‘the censure of the Church of England’.19 In 1600 he was employed to watch over the disgraced 2nd earl of Essex, then under house arrest at Essex House,20 and in 1603 was a bearer of the canopy at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth.21
• Berkeley was returned to his first Parliament in 1604 as junior knight for Gloucestershire, alongside his young kinsman Sir Thomas Berkeley, although he was now in his 73rd year. After being named to the committee to consider bills to explain the Forcible Entry Act and to limit the use of writs of error (28 Mar.),22 he died in the Parliament’s sixth week, on 26 Apr. 1604. In his brief will, made 11 days earlier, he makes no mention of his son Henry, whom he had previously described as ‘possessed ... [of a] melancholy humour’, but left all those lands not already so conveyed to his grandson, Richard Berkeley*. He was buried, according to his request, in the lord mayor’s chapel at Bristol, where a monument was erected.23
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/be... ______________________________
• ROE (ROWE), Sir Thomas (1581-1644), of Rendcomb, Glos. and St. Martin's Lane, Westminster; later of Woodford, Essex
• bap. 8 Mar. 1581,1 o.s. of Robert Rowe, Haberdasher, of London and Eleanor, da. of Robert Jermy of Antingham, Norf.2 educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 1593; M. Temple 1597.3 m. 15 Dec. 1614,4 Eleanor (bur. 6 Dec. 1675),5 da. of Sir Thomas Cave of Stanford, Northants., wid. of Sir George Beeston of Beeston, Cheshire, s.p.6 suc. fa. 1587;7 kntd. 23 Mar. 1605.8 d. 6 Nov. 1644.9 sig, Tho[mas] Roe/Rowe.
• Offices Held
  • Member, Virg. Council 1607;10 gent. of the privy chamber (?extraordinary), James I by 1615, (extraordinary), Charles I by 1632;11 commr. Virg. plantation 1631,12 piracy 1632;13 chan. of the Garter 1636-d.;14 PC 1640-d.15
  • Member, embassy to Spain 1605;16 amb. to the Great Mogul 1615-18, the Sublime Porte 1621-8, Denmark, Sweden and Poland 1629-30, Hamburg 1638-40, Ratisbon and Vienna 1641-2.17
  • Cttee. Virg. Co. 1609,18 E.I. Co. 1619-21;19 member, Levant Co. 1621;20 member, Fishery Co. by 1633, dep. gov. by 1637;21 member, Merchant Adventurers’ Co. 1638.22
  • J.p. Northants. 1634-6, Mdx. 1637-at least 1641;23 commr. array, Mdx. 1642.24
• Roe has to be distinguished from a military namesake, knighted in 1603.25 His father was a younger son in a successful City family of Kentish origin which produced three lord mayors in Elizabethan and Jacobean times. He lost his father at the age of six, but by 1593 his mother had married Sir Richard Berkeley* and settled down in Gloucestershire. Roe’s only sister married into the same family, and he himself was living with his mother at Rendcomb, five miles north of Cirencester, when he bought an estate at Southrop.26 In 1634 he stated that he had been in royal service for 33 years, suggesting that he held Court office before the accession of James I. However, Anthony à Wood’s assertion that he was esquire of the body to Elizabeth seems to be unfounded.27 He evidently also had some experience of military service, .... etc.
• .... He left £100 and his books and papers to his nephew (Sir) Maurice Berkeley.128 He was buried at Woodford on 8 Nov. 1644.129
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/ro... __________________

Sir Richard BERKELEY Knight [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 was born 1527 in Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England. He died 26 Apr 1604 in Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England. Richard married Elizabeth READ on 1548 in Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England.

Other marriages:

JERMY, Eleanor

Elizabeth READ 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 1530 in Milton, Kent, England. She died 1580 in Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England. Elizabeth married Sir Richard BERKELEY Knight on 1548 in Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England.

They had the following children:

		F	i	 Elizabeth BERKELEY 1, 2, 3 was born 1549 in Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England.

M ii Sir Henry BERKELEY Knight was born 1552 and died 7 Feb 1608.
F iii Katherine BERKELEY 1, 2, 3 was born 1555 in Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England.
F iv Anne BERKELEY 1, 2, 3 was born 1558 in Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England.
F v Dorothy BERKELEY 1, 2, 3 was born 1561 in Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, England.
F vi Mary BERKELEY was born 1565.
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Name Sir Richard Berkeley [46, Glos of 1623, pub 1885, pp. 87-90], [100, Vol I, p. 263 and Vol II, p. 180], [49, Botetourt article, Vol II, Table p. 234], 2C14R

Birth ca 1531

Death 1605

General 1st s. Of Weoly, Worcs. Lieut of the Tower of London. MP. Kt c. 1568.

Father Sir John Berkeley (ca1510->1545)

Mother Isabel Denis

Spouses

1 Elizabeth Read [46, Gloucester of 1623, pub Harl 1885, Barkley pedigree, p. 8], [100, Vol I, p. 263 & Vol II, p. 180]

Father William Read

Children Henry (-1606)

	Elizabeth

Mary
Katharine
Ann
Dorothy
2 Ellenor Jermy [46, Gloucester of 1623, pub Harl 1885, Barkley pedigree, p. 8], [100, Vol I, pp. 263-4 & Vol II, p. 180]

Death aft 1628

General m. (1) Robt Rowe, (2) Rich: Berkeley.

Father Sir Robert Jermy

Notes for Sir Richard Berkeley

m. (1) Eliz. Read, (2) Ellenor Jermy.

Wrote a book "A Discourse of the felicity of man or his summum bonum", printed 1598.

Sheriff of Glos; DL of ditto.

The 1623 Visitation of Glos for Barkley, p. 8, calls him, almost certainly incorrectly, Robert, not Richard.

The 1623 Visitation of Glos for Barkley, p. 8, also gives him a second son William but with no descendants.

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• “A Record of the Redes of Barton Court, Berks: With a Short Précis of Other ...” By Compton Reade. Page 119. GoogleBooks “ William Reade of Bodington on the decease of Margery Beauchamp married Anna, sister of Sir Giles Bruges, and by her had (with daughters who married respectively-Cassye, Higford, and Vaughan), a son, William of The Wenyerde, Tewkesbury (will 1557), who, by Catherine, daughter of Richard Rowdon, had (with a daughter who = H. Chatterton, and another daughter who = (1) Silvester Danvers, (2) Sir Richard Berkeley), a son, the Worshipful Giles Reade of Mitton (will 1611).”