Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Elizabeth Berkeley
1387 - 1422 (~ 36 years)1. Elizabeth Berkeley was born between 1386 and 1387 (daughter of Thomas Berkeley and Margaret Lisle); died on 28 Dec 1422. Elizabeth married Richard de Beauchamp between Sep 1392 and 5 Oct 1397. Richard (son of Thomas Beauchamp and Margaret Ferrers) died on 30 Apr 1439 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France; was buried in St. Mary's, Warwick, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Elizabeth Beauchamp died before 2 Oct 1480.
2. Thomas Berkeley was born on 5 Jan 1353 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England (son of Maurice de Berkeley and Elizabeth le Despenser); died on 13 Jul 1417. Notes:
Privy councillor to Richard II and Henry IV. Admiral of the South and West, 1403. Constable of Brecknock Castle, 1403. Joint Warden of the Welsh Marches, 1404. Joint Warden of the Welsh Marches and of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, 1415. Regent of the Kingdom, 1416. Summoned to Parliament by writs, 16 Jul 1381 to 3 Sep 1415.
Thomas married Margaret Lisle in Nov 1367 in Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England. Margaret (daughter of Warin de Lisle and Margaret Pipard) was born between 1360 and 1363; died on 20 Mar 1392. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Margaret Lisle was born between 1360 and 1363 (daughter of Warin de Lisle and Margaret Pipard); died on 20 Mar 1392. Children:
- 1. Elizabeth Berkeley was born between 1386 and 1387; died on 28 Dec 1422.
Generation: 3
4. Maurice de Berkeley was born about 1330 (son of Thomas de Berkeley and Margaret de Mortimer); died on 3 Jun 1368 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. Maurice married Elizabeth le Despenser about 1340. Elizabeth (daughter of Hugh le Despenser and Eleanor de Clare) died on 13 Jul 1389; was buried in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Elizabeth le Despenser (daughter of Hugh le Despenser and Eleanor de Clare); died on 13 Jul 1389; was buried in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England. Children:
- James Berkeley was born between 1353 and 1354 in of Little Marshfield, Gloucestershire, England; died on 13 Jun 1405.
- 2. Thomas Berkeley was born on 5 Jan 1353 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; died on 13 Jul 1417.
6. Warin de Lisle was born about 1333 in of Kingston Lisle, Berkshire, England (son of Gerard de Lisle and Eleanor de Arundel); died on 28 Jun 1382. Warin married Margaret Pipard. Margaret (daughter of William Pipard and Margery) died on 3 Aug 1375. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Margaret Pipard (daughter of William Pipard and Margery); died on 3 Aug 1375. Children:
- 3. Margaret Lisle was born between 1360 and 1363; died on 20 Mar 1392.
- Gerard de Lisle was born about 1360 in of Draycot Foliat, Wiltshire, England; died before 30 Nov 1381.
Generation: 4
8. Thomas de Berkeley was born about 1296 in of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England (son of Maurice de Berkeley and Eve la Zouche); died on 27 Oct 1361; was buried in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. Notes:
He was summoned to Parliament by writs from 14 Jun 1329 to 20 Nov 1360.
"Knighted before 1322; fought at the battle of Boroughbridge, 16 Mar 1322 and there taken prisoner. Imprisoned in Pevensey Castle until his release, 16 Oct 1326, and on 4 Apr 1327, was made Joint Custodian of the deposed King, Edward II, whom he 'curteously received' the next day at Berkeley Castle, but when he was commanded to deliver his custody over to his fellow custodians, he departed 'with heavy cheere perceiving what violence was intended.' He was tried by a jury of 12 Knights, without protest in 1330/1 as an accessory to the murder of the deposed King, but was acquitted. Fought in Scotland, 1328; Marshal of the English army in France, 1340; Captain of the Scottish Marches, 1342; Warden and Chief Justice in Eyre, south of Trent, 1345-1348." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]Thomas married Margaret de Mortimer between 10 May 1319 and 28 Aug 1329. Margaret (daughter of Roger de Mortimer and Joan de Geneville) died on 5 May 1337; was buried in St. Augustine's, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Margaret de Mortimer (daughter of Roger de Mortimer and Joan de Geneville); died on 5 May 1337; was buried in St. Augustine's, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Children:
- Joan de Berkeley died on 2 Oct 1369.
- 4. Maurice de Berkeley was born about 1330; died on 3 Jun 1368 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England.
10. Hugh le Despenser was born in of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England (son of Hugh le Despenser and Isabel de Beauchamp); died on 24 Nov 1326 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate birth: of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, England
- Alternate death: 29 Nov 1326, Hereford, Herefordshire, England
Notes:
"The Younger". Favorite of Edward II; ultimately convicted of treason. "Outside the city he was stripped and then reclothed with his arms reversed, and he was crowned with stinging nettles. Condemned to death as a traitor, on 24 November 1326 he was drawn on a hurdle to the gallows, and then hanged from a height of 50 feet. Still alive, he was cut down and eviscerated before finally being beheaded. His head was displayed on London Bridge; his quarters were sent to Bristol, Dover, York, and Newcastle. In December 1330 Eleanor de Clare received royal permission to collect her husband's bones and inter them in Tewkesbury Abbey." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]
Hugh married Eleanor de Clare after 14 Jun 1306 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. Eleanor (daughter of Gilbert de Clare and Joan of Acre) was born in Oct 1292 in Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales; died on 30 Jun 1337. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
11. Eleanor de Clare was born in Oct 1292 in Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales (daughter of Gilbert de Clare and Joan of Acre); died on 30 Jun 1337. Other Events and Attributes:
- Alternate birth: Bef 23 Nov 1292, Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales
Notes:
"She was imprisoned in the Tower of London, 17 Nov 1326, later released, and had her lands restored to her, 22 Apr 1328. Before 26 Jan 1329 she was abducted from Hanley Castle by Sir William la Zouche who subsequently married her. She was imprisoned again in the Tower, shortly after 5 Feb 1329, and then in Devizes Castle, until after 6 Jan 1330 as a result of accompanying her husband in his siege of her castle of Caerphilly." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]
Children:
- Edward le Despenser was born in of Buckland, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 30 Sep 1342 in Morlaix, Finistère, Brittany, France.
- 5. Elizabeth le Despenser died on 13 Jul 1389; was buried in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England.
- Isabel le Despenser was born between 1312 and 1313.
12. Gerard de Lisle was born about 1304 in of Stowe, Northamptonshire, England (son of Warin de Lisle and Alice le Tyeys); died on 9 Jun 1360. Gerard married Eleanor de Arundel after 3 Dec 1329. Eleanor (daughter of Edmund Fitz Alan and Alice de Warenne) died before 30 Mar 1347. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
13. Eleanor de Arundel (daughter of Edmund Fitz Alan and Alice de Warenne); died before 30 Mar 1347. Children:
- 6. Warin de Lisle was born about 1333 in of Kingston Lisle, Berkshire, England; died on 28 Jun 1382.
14. William Pipard was born in of Nethercott in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. William married Margery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
15. Margery Children:
- 7. Margaret Pipard died on 3 Aug 1375.