Maurice fitz Robert fitz Harding

- 1190

• Name	Maurice fitz Robert fitz Harding  [1]
  Birth	of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1120	Bristol, Gloucestershire, England   [2]
  Death	16 Jun 1190  [2]
  Burial	Brenford, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Person ID	I8509	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Robert fitz Harding,   b. of Bristol, England d. 5 Feb 1171
  Mother	Eva   d. 12 Mar 1170
  Family ID	F6630	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice de Berkeley
  Marriage	Between 1153 and 1154	Bristol, Gloucestershire, England   [2]
  Children	1. Thomas de Berkeley,   b. Abt 1170   d. 29 Nov 1243 (Age ~ 73 years)   2. Maud fitz Maurice
  Family ID	F4859	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Justice itinerant in Gloucester, 1190. He enlarged the castle of Berkeley, which gave its name to his descendants. "Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding, otherwise de Berkeley, feudal Lord of Berkeley, s. and h., who "may bee called Maurice the Make Peace," b. about 1120, in Bristol, received (at the same date as his father) a confirmation of the grant of Berkeley from Henry II, in 1155, and again 30 Oct. 1189 from Queen Eleanor, Regent to her son Richard I. In 1190 he was Justice Itinerant in co. Gloucester. He enlarged the Castle of Berkeley, which thenceforth became the chief seat of, and gave name to, the family. He m., in 1153 or 1154, at Bristol, Alice, 1st da. (but not h. or coh.) of his dispossessed predecessor, Roger de Berkeley, feudal Lord of Dursley (formerly "fermer" of Berkeley), with whom he had the manor of Slimbridge, as by agreement between their respective fathers. He d. 16 June 1190, and was bur. in the church of Brentford, Midx. His widow d. at an 'extreame old age.'" [Complete Peerage II:125-26] "[I]n 1153 [the future Henry II] sanctioned, if not arranged, a marriage between Maurice and Alice, the daughter of the dispossessed Gloucestershire tenant-in-chief and lord of Berkeley, Roger. The agreement between Robert and Roger, which was formalized in Robert's Bristol house in Henry's presence, also provided for the transfer of additional Berkeley land to Maurice. Its terms created through Maurice, Alice, and their heirs the second house of Berkeley with relentless determination: should Robert's son or Roger's daughter die before the nuptials, their places would be taken by their respective brothers and sisters so long as the supply would last." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

  
  

• Sources

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