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The Berkeley family descends in the male line from Robert Fitzharding (d. 1170), 1st feudal baron of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, reputedly the son of Harding of Bristol, the son of Eadnoth the Constable (Alnod), a high official under King Edward the Confessor. [4]
The Berkeley family are an English aristocratic family headed by the Baron Berkeley. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. B.
The first castle at Berkeley was a motte-and-bailey, built around 1067 by William FitzOsbern shortly after the Conquest. [11] This was subsequently held by three generations of the first Berkeley family, all called Roger de Berkeley, and rebuilt by them in the first half of the 12th century. [12]
George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley, 9th Baron Berkeley (1627–1698), son (created Earl of Berkeley in 1679) Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley, 10th Baron Berkeley (1649–1710) James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley, 11th Baron Berkeley (1680–1736)
Berkeley Plantation was originally called Berkeley Hundred, named after the Berkeley Company of England. In 1726, it became the home of the Harrison family of Virginia, after Benjamin Harrison IV located there and built one of the first three-story brick mansions in Virginia.
He rebuilt Berkeley Castle, and founded the Berkeley family which still occupies it today. [1] He was a wealthy Bristol merchant and a financier of the future King Henry II of England (1133-1189) in the period known as the Anarchy during which Henry's mother, the Empress Matilda (1102-1167), mounted repeated military challenges to King Stephen ...
An old family tradition is that the Scottish family is descended from John de Berkeley, who was the son of Roger de Berkeley, provost of Berkeley, and went to Scotland in 1069 with St Margaret. [4] [5] Another theory is that the clan is descended from a John de Berkeley who went north in 1124 with Maud, queen of David I. [6]
William de Berkeley, 1st Marquess of Berkeley (1426 – 14 February 1492) was an English peer, given the epithet "The Waste-All" by the family biographer and steward John Smyth of Nibley. [1] He was buried at "St. Augustine's Friars, London" according to one source, [2] but most likely in the Berkeley family foundation of St Augustine's Abbey ...