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Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley (1245 – 23 July 1321), aka The Wise, was an English baron, soldier and diplomat.
Thomas de Berkeley was born in 1245 at Berkeley Castle in the English county of Gloucestershire, the son of Sir Maurice de Berkeley and Isabel FitzRoy.
Isabel FitzRoy was the granddaughter of John, King of England, by his cousin and mistress, Adela de Warenne, daughter of Hamelin de Warenne and Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey. In 1267, Thomas de Berkeley married Joan de Ferrers, the daughter of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby and Margaret de Quinci. He was succeeded in his titles by his son Maurice de Berkeley II.
Thomas de Berkeley is also known by his epithet Thomas 'the Wise'.
He fought in the Battle of Evesham. He inherited the title of Baron de Berkeley [feudal baron] in 1281 and was created 1st Baron Berkeley [England by writ] on 28 June 1283. He was a commissioner to examine the claims to the crown of Scotland in June 1292.
He was on an embassy to France in January 1296 and held the office of Vice-Constable of England in 1297. He fought in the Battle of Falkirk on 22 July 1298 and fought in the siege of Caerlaverock in July 1300.
He was on an embassy to Pope Clement V in July 1307.
He fought in the Battle of Bannockburn on 24 June 1314, where he was taken prisoner, and paid a large sum for his ransom. He died at Berkeley on 23 July 1321.
The children of Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley and Joan de Ferrers are:
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1st Baron Berkeley
Fought in Battle of Evesham
Commissioner to examine crown of Scotland 1292
Summoned to Parliament 1295 through 1321
Embassy to France 1296
Vice-Constable of England 1297
Battle of Falkirk 1298
Siege of Caerlaverock 1300
Embassy to Pope Clement V 1307
Taken prisoner at Battle of Bannockburn 1314, ransomed
Thomas II "the Wise," 1st Lord Berkeley, took part in the Second Baron's War, in which Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, was defeated and killed. (Thomas was under age on 4 August 1265, at the Battle of Evesham in Worcestershire.)
Thomas was for nearly every year for the last 50 years of his life "employed either against the Welsh, the Scots, or the French" between 1271 and 1321.
He was feudal Lord of Berkeley at Gloucestershire between 1283 and 23 July 1321. He was summoned to attend King Edward I at Shrewbury (by writ directed to "Thomas de Berkel" on 28 June 1283).
He was on the commission to examine the claims to the Crown of Scotland in June 1292.
He was summoned to Parliament by writ directed "Thome de Berkelegh" whereby he may be held have become Lord Berkeley on 24 June 1295.
He was on an Embassy to France in January 1296.
He was Vice-Constable of England in 1297.
Thomas was part of the forces of King Edward I to defeat a Scottish army under William Wallace. On 22 July 1298 at the Battle of Falkirk in Scotland, Thomas helped to defeat Wallace.
In July 1300 Thomas was at the Siege of Caerlaverock.
Thomas was one of the Barons who signed the celebrated letter to the Pope in 1301. He was on an Embassy to Pope Clement V in July 1307 in Rome.
Thomas was taken prisoner at Bannockburn, for which he paid a large sum for his ransom, on 24 June 1314.
Thomas continued to be so summoned to Parliament till shortly before his death on 15 May 1321. He died at the age of 76.
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Thomas II. Sixth Lord. 1281 to 1321.
After his succession to the Barony he devoted himself very much to the management and improvement of his estates, keeping many of his manors in his own hands, of which most minute and accurate accounts were kept, showing how the demesne lands were stocked and farmed, and how the produce was disposed of. Like several of his predecessors he granted away much land in fee, reserving what was then the full annual value as a chief rent; the object of this was to maintain the revenue of the estate at its then value, thinking that from the disturbed state of the kingdom it was more likely to diminish than to increase. His standing household consisted of upwards of 300 persons, of the various ranks of knights, esquires, yeomen, grooms, and pages, besides of others of less degree.
Lord Berkeley's public, civil, and military employments were as numerous as his domestic engagements. From the battle of Evesham in 1265, to 1319, he was almost constantly in arms and served in nearly every engagement in the civil wars, as well as against the French, Scots, and Welsh, during that turbulent period. In 1295 he was sent as ambassador to the king of France. In 1307, he was appointed with the Bishop of Worcester to go on an embassy to Rome, but their mission was stopped by the death of the king (Edward I) at Carlisle. Lord Berkeley was present at the coronation of Edward II and soon afterwards went with his two sons Maurice and John to France to witness the king's marriage with the Princess Isabella, little thinking probably, to what a tragedy that marriage would lead, and how great a share his family were destined to take in it! At the disastrous battle of Bannockburn, lord Berkeley and his son Thomas were both among the prisoners, but Maurice escaped, and aided in effecting the ransom of his father and brother. In 1319, lord Berkeley was again in arms, though 74 years of age, and joined the royal army at Newcastle with his son Maurice and Maurice's two sons, there being thus three generations of Berkeleys in the field at once; this was Thomas lord Berkeley's 28th campaign and it was his last. After his return home he was several times written to by the king, Edward II, requiring him to repress the local and partial insurrections which were caused by the discontents occasioned by the King's weakness and incapacity and his devotion to favourites.
Thomas, 6th lord Berkeley, died in 1321, and was buried with his forefathers in St. Augustine's under an arch between the vestry and the south aisle.
Inquisitions Post Mortem for Thomas de Berkeleye alias de Berkelee. Writ, 3 August, 15 Edward II [1321]. His death date is not recorded. He died before the 3 August 1391 (date of writ). Maurice his son, aged 40 and more, is his next heir.
1245 |
July 23, 1245
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Castle Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
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1271 |
April 1271
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Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (United Kingdom)
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1274 |
1274
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Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
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1275 |
1275
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Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
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1277 |
1277
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Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
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1279 |
1279
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Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
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1280 |
1280
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Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
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1321 |
July 23, 1321
Age 76
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St Augustines Abbey, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
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1321
Age 75
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Bristol Cathedral, Bristol, Gloucester, England, UK
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1932 |
November 19, 1932
Age 76
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