Berkeley, Gloucestershire is in Gloucestershire.
Around 1307 Isabel Berkeley Baroness Clifford Baroness Musgrave was born to Maurice Berkeley 7th and 2nd Baron Berkeley [aged 35] and Eva Zouche [aged 26] at Berkeley, Gloucestershire. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King John of England. She married (1) before 1329 her third cousin once removed Robert Clifford 3rd Baron Clifford, son of Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford and Maud Clare Baroness Clifford Baroness Welles, and had issue (2) after 20th May 1344 Thomas Musgrave 1st Baron Musgrave and had issue.
Around 1324 Edmund Berkeley was born to Maurice Berkeley [aged 26] and Margery de Vere [aged 22] at Berkeley, Gloucestershire. He a great x 4 grandson of King John of England.
Around 1332 Thomas Berkeley 3rd Baron Berkeley was born to Maurice Berkeley [aged 34] and Margery de Vere [aged 30] at Berkeley, Gloucestershire. He a great x 4 grandson of King John of England. He married before 1st June 1358 his third cousin once removed Katherine Botetort, daughter of John Botetort 2nd Baron Botetort and Joyce Zouche, and had issue.
Wriothesley's Chronicle [1508-1562]. 1506. This yeare a great parte of the cittie of Norwich [Map] was burnt, and the towne of Berkwayeb more then halfe burnt. Also a great fier in London betwene the Custome Howsse and Billinsgate, that did great hurte.
Note b. Berkwey in Arnold, probably Berkeley in Gloucestershire.
In 1550 Dean John Harpsfield [aged 34] was appointed Vicar of Berkeley, Gloucestershire.
On 17th January 1755 Augustus Berkeley 4th Earl Berkeley [deceased] was buried at Berkeley, Gloucestershire.
On 17th September 1787 Admiral George Francis Seymour-Conway was born to Hugh Seymour-Conway [aged 28] and Anne Horatia Waldegrave [aged 25] in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. He a great x 3 grandson of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland. He married March 1811 his half fourth cousin Georgina Mary Berkeley and had issue.
On 20th March 1470 the army of William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley [aged 44] including Maurice Berkeley 3rd Baron Berkeley [aged 35] defeated the army of Thomas Talbot 2nd Viscount Lisle [aged 21] at Nibley Green, Berkeley.
Thomas Talbot 2nd Viscount Lisle was killed. Viscount Lisle extinct. Baron Lisle abeyant.
Ostensibly a battle of the Wars of the Roses it may also be considered a settling of the dispute over the ownership of Berkeley Castle [Map] which has passed with the Baron Berkeley Feudal to William Berkeley 1st Marquess Berkeley rather than with Baron Berkeley which was abeyant, and of which Thomas Talbot 2nd Viscount Lisle was a potential heir. Thomas Talbot 2nd Viscount Lisle was born to John Talbot 1st Viscount Lisle whose mother was Margaret Beauchamp Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford whose mother was Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick who was a daughter of Thomas Berkeley 10th and 5th Baron Berkeley, Baron Lisle.
In 1425 Henry Ferrers [aged 31] died at St Mary's Church, Berkeley.
On 26th November 1613 Henry Berkeley 7th Baron Berkeley [aged 79] died. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Berkeley. His grandson George [aged 12] succeeded 8th Baron Berkeley.
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On 30th May 1785 Frederick Augustus Berkeley 5th Earl Berkeley [aged 40] and Mary Cole were married at St Mary's Church, Berkeley by the Vicar. The marriage was kept secret until the couple were married again at Lambeth, Surrey [Map] on 16th May 1796. The absence of evidence led to subsequent issues with inheritance with the couple's fist six children effectively being illegitimate and the couple's children after the Lambeth marriage being legitimate and eligible to inherit.
On 26th January 1823 Edward Jenner [aged 73] died. He was buried at the St Mary's Church, Berkeley.