Sir Thomas Berkeley, Lord of Coston

Sir Thomas de Berkeley was born circa 1280 at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England. Sir Thomas de Berkeley died on 15 February 1346 at Coston, Wymondham, Leicestershire, England.3

He was the son of 4. Thomas "The Wise" de Berkeley and Joan de Ferrers.

He married

1. Margery le Bray, daughter of Sir Robert le Bray, before 1310; They had 1 son (Thomas) and 1 daughter (Katherine, wife of Mr. de la Dale & of Sir Richard Chamberlain).2
2. Isabel Hamelin, daughter of Sir John Hamelin, Lord Wymondham and Matilda Erdington, before 12 June 1318 at of Wymondham, Leicestershire, England; They had 1 son, Sir John.3

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Thomas Berkeley (Thomas ?The Wise? De Berkeley7, Maurice ?The Resolute? De Berkeley6, Thomas ?The Observer? De Berkeley5, Maurice ?Make the Peace? De Berkeley4, Robert ?The Devout? Fitzharding3, Harding FitzEadnoth2, Eadnoth The Staller1) was born ABT 1280 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England.

He married Isabel Hamelin, daughter of John Hamelin and Matilda Erdington.

Child of Thomas Berkeley and Isabel Hamelin is:

1. John Berkeley died BEF 1356. Married 1 Isabel Burdet

pedigree notes

From http://www.woodforde.co.uk/page09.htm

Thomas Woodford of Sproxton

Thomas Woodford, the eldest son of Sir Robert Woodford, married his cousin Alice Berkeley who was the daughter of Sir Lawrence Berkeley of Wymondham and Joan Woodford, sister to Sir Robert Woodford.  Their son, Ralph was born in 1430  Thomas died before his father, and hence Ralph became the heir to his grandfather’s estates

Alice’s father, Sir Lawrence Berkeley (d.c.1413) was a descendant of a cadet branch of the Berkeley family from Thomas, 1st Lord Berkeley (d.1321) through his son Sir Thomas Berkeley, Lord of Coston, Leics., a younger brother of Maurice, 2nd Lord Berkeley. (d.1326)  Thomas, 1st Lord Berkeley was in turn the great-grandson of King John of England (d.1216) through Richard Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of King John and Ela de Warenne, sister of the 6th Earl of Warenne, and Fitzroy’s daughter, Isabel (d.1276/7).

From Joan (d.1309), the wife of Thomas, 1st Lord Berkeley, can also be traced a descent from Henry I of England.

Hence Ralph Woodford would have been able to claim through his mother to be descended from both Henry I and John, and through his grandmother Isabel Neville, from Alfred the Great

• https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ancestor...
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1155.htm#... Citations
  • 1. Unknown author, The Hussey Connection to the Plantagenet Lineage, by Roy Leggitt; Wallop Family, p. 87, 90.
  • 2. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 173.
  • 3. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 171-172.