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Berkeley, Maurice (1400 - 1464)

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1400-09-30 (born after his father's death between this date and 16 Feb. 1400/1)
Death Date: 1464-11-26

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1422
    Vacated: 1464-11-26

Details of Offices

Began Ended
Sheriff, Gloucestershire 1430 -11 -5 1431 -11 -25
Sheriff, Gloucestershire 1436 -11 -8 1437 -11 -6
JP, Gloucestershire 1437 1439

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Gloucestershire
  • Hampshire
  • Somerset
  • Staffordshire
  • 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 (1400 - 1464) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Stoke Park House Gloucestershire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

  • Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison, 1883
  • 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