Biography of Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge 1599-1668

Paternal Family Tree: Berkeley

1640 Short Parliament

1661 Cavalier Parliament

1665 Battle of Lowestoft

On 14 Dec 1599 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge was born to Maurice Berkeley (age 23) and Elizabeth Killigrew (age 20).

In 1613 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 13) educated at Eton College [Map].

On 03 Nov 1615 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 15) was educated at Queen's College, Oxford University.

In 1621 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 21) was elected MP Somerset.

In 1623 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 23) was knighted.

In 1624 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 24) was elected MP Bodmin.

In 1625 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 25) was elected MP Heytesbury.

In 1626 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 26) was elected MP Heytesbury.

Before 1628 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 28) and Penelope Godolphin Viscountess Fitzhardinge were married. They were second cousins.

In 1628 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 28) was elected MP Heytesbury.

Before 15 Jun 1628 [his son] Maurice Berkeley 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge was born to Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 28) and [his wife] Penelope Godolphin Viscountess Fitzhardinge. On 15 Jun 1628 Maurice Berkeley 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge was baptised.

On 11 Jan 1630 [his son] Charles Berkeley 1st Earl Falmouth was born to Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 30) and [his wife] Penelope Godolphin Viscountess Fitzhardinge.

In 1639 [his son] William Berkeley was born to Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 39) and [his wife] Penelope Godolphin Viscountess Fitzhardinge.

Short Parliament

In 1640 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 40) was elected MP Bath during the Short Parliament.

On 01 Jan 1648 [his son] Maurice Berkeley 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 19) and [his daughter-in-law] Anne Lee Viscountess Fitzhardinge (age 25) were married.

In 1650 [his son] John Berkeley 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge was born to Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 50) and [his wife] Penelope Godolphin Viscountess Fitzhardinge.

Cavalier Parliament

On 08 May 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 30) summoned his second Parliament.

John Bennet 1st Baron Ossulston (age 44) was elected MP Wallingford.

James Thynne (age 56) was elected MP Wiltshire.

Adam Browne 2nd Baronet (age 35) was elected MP Surrey.

Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne (age 30) was elected MP Northumberland.

William Compton (age 36) was elected MP Cambridge.

Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry (age 32) was elected MP Camelford.

Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 61) was elected MP Bath and Heytesbury.

Edward Hungerford (age 28) was elected MP Chippenham.

Robert Pierrepont (age 24) was elected MP Nottingham.

John Melbury Sampford Strangeways (age 75) was elected MP Weymouth.

Giles Strangeways (age 45) was elected MP Dorset.

John Strangeways (age 24) was elected MP Bridport.

William Wyndham 1st Baronet (age 29) was elected MP Taunton.

James Herbert (age 38) was elected MP Queenborough.

William Alington 1st and 3rd Baron Alington (age 21) was elected MP Cambridge.

William Bowes of Streatlam (age 4) was elected MP Durham.

Robert Brooke (age 24) was elected MP Aldeburgh.

Josiah Child (age 30) was elected MP Dartmouth.

Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet (age 73) was elected MP Nottinghamshire.

Thomas Crew 2nd Baron Crew (age 37) was elected MP Brackley.

Richard Jennings (age 42) was elected MP St Albans.

Robert Kemp 2nd Baronet (age 33) was elected MP Norfolk.

Edward Phelips (age 48) was elected MP Somerset.

Robert Robartes (age 27) was elected MP Bossiney.

Hender Robartes (age 25) was elected MP Bodmin.

Clement Fisher 2nd Baronet (age 48) was elected MP Coventry.

William Portman 6th Baronet (age 17) was elected MP Taunton.

John Robinson 1st Baronet (age 46) was elected MP Rye.

In 1664 [his son] Charles Berkeley 1st Earl Falmouth (age 33) and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Bagot Countess Falmouth and Dorset (age 19) were married. She by marriage Viscountess Fitzhardinge of Berehaven in Kerry.

Battle of Lowestoft

On 03 Jun 1665 at the Battle of Lowestoft an English fleet commanded by King James II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 31), Prince Rupert Palatinate Simmern 1st Duke Cumberland (age 45) and Edward Montagu 1st Earl Sandwich (age 39) defeated a Dutch Fleet.

Richard Boyle was killed.

Charles Maccarthy Viscount Muskerry was killed.

[his son] Charles Berkeley 1st Earl Falmouth (age 35) was killed by a cannonball aboard the Royal Charles. Earl Falmouth extinct, Baron Botetourt Langport in Somerset extinct. His father Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 65) succeeded 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge of Berehaven in Kerry. [his wife] Penelope Godolphin Viscountess Fitzhardinge by marriage Viscountess Fitzhardinge of Berehaven in Kerry. Possibly the only occasion when a father has succeeded his son.

Charles Weston 3rd Earl of Portland (deceased) was killed by a cannon shot. On 13 Jun 1665 His uncle Thomas Weston 4th Earl of Portland (age 55) succeeded 4th Earl of Portland.

Thomas Allin 1st Baronet (age 53) was present.

Admiral Jeremy Smith commanded the Mary.

Captain George Batts fought. He was assigned to Sir George Ayscue's (age 49) division in the Blue Squadron.

James Ley 3rd Earl Marlborough (age 47) was killed at the Battle of Lowestoft commanding Old James attempting to recover a captured ship. His half brother William Ley 4th Earl Marlborough (age 53) succeeded 4th Earl Marlborough.

Pepy's Diary. 21 Apr 1668. Up, and at the office all the morning, at noon dined at home, and thence took Mrs. Turner (age 45) out and carried her to the King's house, and saw "The Indian Emperour"; and after that done, took Knepp out, and to Kensington; and there walked in the garden, and then supped, and mighty merry, there being also in the house Sir Philip Howard (age 37), and some company, and had a dear reckoning, but merry, and away, it being quite night, home, and dark, about 9 o'clock or more, and in my coming had the opportunity the first time in my life to be bold with Knepp.., and so left her at home, and so Mrs. Turner and I home to my letters and to bed. Here hear how Sir W. Pen's (age 46) impeachment was read, and agreed to, in the House this day, and ordered to be engrossed; and he suspended the House1 Harman (age 43) set at liberty; and Brouncker (age 41) put out of the House, and a writ for a new election, and an impeachment ordered to be brought in against him, he being fled!2

Note 1. From sitting as a member pending the impeachment.-B.

Note 2. Sir Charles Berkeley, jun (age 68). was chosen in his room. In the sea-fight off Southwold Bay on June 3rd, 1665, the English triumphed over the Dutch, but the very considerable victory was not followed up. During the night, while the Duke of York (age 34) slept, Henry Brouncker, his groom of the bedchamber, ordered the lieutenant to shorten sail, by which means the progress of the whole fleet was retarded, the Duke of York's being the leading ship. The duke affirmed that he first heard of Brouncker's unjustifiable action in July, and yet he kept the culprit in his service for nearly two years after the offence had come to his knowledge. After Brouncker had been dismissed from the duke's service, the House of Commons ejected him. The whole matter is one of the unsolved difficulties of history. See Lister's "Life of Clarendon", ii., 334 335.

On 12 Jun 1668 Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 68) died. He was buried at Church of St Mary, Bruton [Map]. His son [his son] Maurice Berkeley 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge (age 39) succeeded 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge of Berehaven in Kerry. [his daughter-in-law] Anne Lee Viscountess Fitzhardinge (age 45) by marriage Viscountess Fitzhardinge of Berehaven in Kerry.

[his father] Maurice Berkeley and [his mother] Elizabeth Killigrew were married.

Royal Ancestors of Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge 1599-1668

Kings Wessex: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 14 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 20 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 15 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 16 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 13 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 17 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France

Ancestors of Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge 1599-1668

Great x 4 Grandfather: Maurice Berkeley 6 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Berkeley 7 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Berkeley of Stoke Gifford 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Stafford

Great x 1 Grandfather: Maurice Berkeley 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Coningsby

Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Coningsby

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Coningsby

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Ferriby

GrandFather: Henry Berkeley 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Blount 1st Baron Mountjoy 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Helena Byron Baroness Mountjoy

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Blount 4th Baron Mountjoy 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Berkeley 6 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Catherine Blount 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Keble

Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Keble Baroness Mountjoy

Father: Maurice Berkeley 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Lygon of Madresfield Court

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Lygon 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Beauchamp 2nd Baron Beauchamp Powick 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Beauchamp 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stafford 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Lygon 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Greville

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Greville

Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Greville

GrandMother: Margaret Lygon 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Denys of Bradford Devon

Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Denys

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Denys

Great x 1 Grandmother: Eleanor Denys 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: James Berkeley 11th and 1st Baron Berkeley 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Maurice Berkeley 3rd Baron Berkeley 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Mowbray Baroness Berkeley 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Berkeley 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Meade 3rd Baroness Berkeley

Charles Berkeley 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: John Killigrew

GrandFather: William Killigrew

Mother: Elizabeth Killigrew

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Saunders

GrandMother: Margery Saunders