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Berkeley, Maurice (1397 - 1460)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1397
Death Date: 1460 (possibly died 5 May 1460)

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Not identified, ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Offspring

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1427 (knighted before 1427--8)
    Vacated: 1460

Details of Offices

Began Ended
Sheriff, Gloucestershire 1435 -11 -7 1436 -11 -7
Commissioner of Array, Gloucestershire 1436
JP, Gloucestershire 1441
JP, Gloucestershire 1444 1449
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Gloucestershire 1445/6
JP, Gloucestershire 1451 1452
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Bristol 1452
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Gloucestershire 1452/3
JP, Gloucestershire 1454 1458
Commissioner of Array, Gloucestershire 1457
Commissioner of Musters, Gloucestershire 1457

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Gloucestershire
  • Hampshire
  • Somerset
  • Wiltshire
  • Worcestershire

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Mr Maurice Berkeley's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Mr Maurice Berkeley's Minstrel/s Berkeley, Maurice (1397 - 1460) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Beverstone Castle Gloucestershire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI [1422--61]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1901--11
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Smyth, John. The Lives of the Berkeleys, Lords of the Honour, Castle and Manor of Berkeley in the County of Gloucester from 1066 to 1618: with a Description of the Hundred of Berkeley and of its Inhabitants. 1st ed [1618]. 3 vols. Gloucester: John Bellows, 1883--5