Alice de Berkeley

Alice married Maurice fitz Robert fitz Harding between 1153 and 1154 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Maurice (son of Robert fitz Harding and Eva) was born in of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; died on 16 Jun 1190; was buried in Brenford, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Maud fitz Maurice
2. Thomas de Berkeley was born about 1170; died on 29 Nov 1243; was buried in Abbey Church of St. Augustine, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1177

Notes:

"Roger de Berkeley [...] who completed the building of the Castle of Berkeley. He suffered much in the wars between Stephen and the Empress Maud, at the hands of Walter, son of Miles, Earl of Hereford. He was deprived of the Manor of Berkeley, &c., about 1152, apparently for refusing to recognise the authority of either party, though he was soon afterwards restored to the Honour of Dursley. He d. about 1170, leaving issue. The Castle and 'herness' of Berkeley were granted by the King as under." [Complete Peerage II:124. "As under" refers to the entry on his son-in-law's father Robert fitz Harding.]

"de Berchelai, Roger III: Son of William of Berkeley, whom he succeeded after c. 1141. He was deprived of part of his barony at the end of Stephen's reign, with Robert fitz Harding being the beneficiary. He reorganized his barony to centre upon Dursley, Gloucestershire. He died after 1177 leaving a son Roger IV (d. 1190) and a daughter Alice, wife of Maurice fitz Harding. Father also of Oliver, according to Earldom Gloucester Chh., 288." [Domesday Descendants, p. 321]

Notes:

"Nephew of Roger II of Berkeley, for whose land he accounted in 1129/30. He was succeeded shortly afterwards by his son Roger III. Founded the Cistercian abbey of Kingswood, colonized from Tintern, at the request of his uncle Roger in 1139, subsequently confirmed by his son Roger III." [Domesday Descendants, p. 321]

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]