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Birth:          ABT 1120 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Death:          16 Jun 1190 Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
Burial:         Church of Brentford, Middlesex, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I01422
Maurice de Berkeley strengthened his tenure of Berkeley Castle by marrying, at the 
instigation of Henry II, Alice, dau. and heiress of the ousted lord, Roger de Berkeley, 
of Dursley. By this lady he had six sons, and was s. by the eldest, Maurice de 
Berkeley. [John Burke, History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. I., 
R. Bentley, London, 1834-1838, p. 469, Berkeley, of Spetchley]

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HOLDERS of the CASTLE of BERKELEY (V)

MAURICE FlTZ ROBERT FITZ HARDING, otherwise DE BERKELEY, feudal LORD OF 
BERKELEY, son and heir, who "may bee called Maurice the Make Peace, born about 
1120, in Bristol, received (at the same date as his father) a confirmation of the grant 
of Berkeley from Henry II, in 1155, and again 30 October 1189 from Queen Eleanor, 
Regent to her son Richard I. In 1190 he was Justice Itinerant in co. Gloucester. He 
enlarged the Castle of Berkeley, which thenceforth became the chief seat of, and 
gave the name to, the family. He married, in 1153 or 1154, at Bristol, Alice, 1st 
daughter (but not heir or coheir) of his dispossessed predecessor, Roger DE 
BERKELEY, feudal Lord of Dursley (formerly "fermer" of Berkeley), with whom he had 
the manor of Slimbridge, as by agreement between their respective fathers. He died 16 
June 1190, and was buried in the church of Brentford, Middlesex. His widow died at 
an " extreame old age." [Complete Peerage II:126, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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Maurice de Berkeley (son of Robert FitzHardinge, upon whom, for his attachment to 
the Empress Maud, had been conferred the lordship of Berkeley and Berkeley 
Hernesse, the confiscated possessions of Roger de Berkeley, the adherent of King 
Stephen; but, to reconcile the parties, King Henry, who had restored to Roger his 
manor and castle of Dursley, caused an agreement to be concluded between them 
that the heiress of the ousted lord should be given to marriage to the heir of the new 
baron; and thus passed the feudal castle of Berkeley to another chief; which Maurice 
de Berkeley became feudal lord of Berkeley upon the decease of his brother, Henry, 
and dying in 1189, left six sons, and was s. by the eldest, Robert de Berkeley. [Sir 
Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, 
Ltd., London, 1883, p. 44, Berkeley, Viscount Berkeley, Earl of Nottingham, and 
Marquess of Berkeley]

Parents
FITZ HARDING Robert "the Devout" (ABT 1095 - 5 Feb 1171)
FITZ ESTMOND Eve (ABT 1099 - 12 Mar 1170)

Siblings
FITZ HARDING Maurice Fitz Robert "Peace Maker" (ABT 1120 - 16 Jun 1190)

Marriage To DE BERKELEY Alice (ABT 1140 - AFT 16 Jun 1190)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE BERKELEY Roger III (ABT 1105 - 1170)
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Children by DE BERKELEY Alice ABT 1140 - AFT 16 Jun 1190
DE BERKELEY Maud Fitz Harding (ABT 1155 - )

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