Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley

Maurice Berkeley
Arms of Berkeley: Gules, a chevron between ten crosses pattée six in chief and four in base argent
Bornc. 1435
Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
DiedSeptember 1506
BuriedAustin Friars, City of London
Spouse(s)Isabel Meade
IssueMaurice Berkeley
Thomas Berkeley
James Berkeley
Anne Berkeley
FatherJames de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley
MotherIsabel de Mowbray

Maurice Berkeley, de jure 3rd Baron Berkeley (1435 – September 1506), of Thornbury[1] in Gloucestershire, Maurice the Lawyer,[2] was an English nobleman.

  1. ^ He did not live at Berkeley Castle, having been disinherited by his brother
  2. ^ Epithet coined by John Smith of Nibley (d.1641), steward of the Berkeley estates, the biographer of the family and author of "Lives of the Berkeleys"