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Thomas Berkeley, ''de jure'' 5th Baron Berkeley, (1472 – 22 January 1532) was an English soldier and aristocrat. He was born to Sir Maurice Berkeley, ''de jure'' 3rd Baron Berkeley, and Isabel Meade, in England. He was the younger brother to Maurice Berkeley, ''de jure'' 4th Baron Berkeley, and had a younger brother, James, and a younger sister, Anne. On 9 September 1513, he fought in the
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and was
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ed by the
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, Thomas Howard. He later became Constable of
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on 15 May 1514, and
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, November 1522 – November 1523. By writ, he was succeeded to the title of ''de jure'' 5th Baron Berkeley on 12 September 1523 after his brother Maurice's death, and his eldest son Thomas followed as the ''de jure'' 6th Baron Berkeley, again by writ.


Marriage and children

He firstly married in 1504/1505, to Alienor Constable (c. 1485 – 1540), daughter of
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, eldest son of Sir Robert Constable (4 April 1423 – 23 May 1488) of
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, and Agnes Wentworth (died 20 April 1496), daughter of Roger Wentworth of
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and Margery le Despencer, by his second wife, Joyce Stafford, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford (c. 1427 – 8 July 1486), who was the son of Sir Humphrey Stafford (c. 1400 – 7 June 1450) of Grafton, Worcestershire and Eleanor Aylesbury (born c. 1406), the daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury (died 9 September 1418) and his second wife, Katherine Pabenham (c.1372 – 17 June 1436). Alienor was the widow of John Ingleby of Ripley, Yorkshire. Thomas and Alienor had two sons and two daughters. * Thomas Berkeley, ''de jure'' 6th Baron Berkeley (1505 – 19 September 1534), married, firstly, Mary Hastings and had no issue. His second marriage was to Anne Savage (c. 1506 – died before 1546) in April 1533, which produced a son and a daughter. His son, Henry Berkeley, became the ''de facto'' 7th Baron Berkeley in 1553. * Maurice Berkeley (c. 1507 – 1523) * Muriel Berkeley (1518 – 1541), was married to Robert Throckmorton of
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(1513 – 1581), in 1527, and had one son and four daughters. * Joan Berkeley (d. 31 March 1563) who firstly married
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on 24 Jun 1527. Secondly, she married Thomas Dyer sometime after 1556. Dyer's ill-treatment of Joan was a source of scandal, and is thought to have caused her death in 1564. His second wife was Cecily Arnold, daughter and co-heiress to Sir Arnold of Gloucestershire, widow of Richard Rowdon, Sheriff of Gloucestershire.


References


Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families; 2nd Edition
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