(Unknown brother of Roger II de Berkeley)

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William de Berkeley died about 1141.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1093

Notes:

Also called de Berchelai.

"Roger, styled 'Senior,' who, having, between 1068 and 1071, been made Provost of the manor of Berkeley by Earl William Fitz-Osbern (to whom it had been granted at the Conquest), took the name of de Berkeley from his residence there, and was confirmed in his office by the King about 1080. At the time of the Survey, 1086, Berkeley was farmed by him from the Crown. He was tenant in capite of Dursley, Cubberley, Dodington, &c., and (not improbably) was identical with 'Roger,' farmer of Barton Regis, Bristol. On 17 Jan. 1091 he became a Monk of St. Peter's, Gloucester, and d. 1093." [Complete Peerage II:123-24]

"Roger de Berchelai: Norman, occurs in Domesday Gloucestershire, where he was reeve of Berkeley, together with his brother Ralph. He died c. 1091-3 as a monk of Gloucester, having restored to the monks the manor of Shotover which he had held unjustly (Chron S. Petri i, 112, 122). He was probably father of Roger II of Berkeley and his brother Eustache of Nympesfield. Green, Government, 234, suggests that the family came from the neighborhood of Aumale, Seine-Maritime, since Roger I and his wife Rissa made a grant to the canons of Saint-Martin d'Auchy near Aumale (Archaeologia vol. 26, pp. 358-60), and c. 1154/60 Roger III secured from Bernard de Saint-Valery freedom of the port of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme." [Domesday People, p. 401]

Roger married Rissa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]