Sir Thomas Berkeley, KB (11 July 1575 – 22 November 1611) was the son and heir apparent of

Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley, KB (26 November 1534 – 26 November 1613) was an English peer and politician. He was Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of Gloucestershire. He was the grandfather of George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley. F ...

, and a Member of Parliament for

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from 1604 until 1611.

Family

Thomas Berkeley was the son of

(d. 26 November 1613), by his first wife, Katherine Howard (d. 7 April 1596), third daughter of

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, KG (1516/1517–19 January 1547) was an English nobleman, politician and poet. He was one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry and was the last known person to have been executed at the insistence of King ...

, and

Frances de Vere Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey ( de Vere; c. 1517 – 30 June 1577) was the second daughter and third child of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell. She first married Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (executed for treason i ...

, daughter of

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, and

Elizabeth Trussell Elizabeth de Vere (''née'' Trussell), Countess of Oxford (1496 – before July 1527) was an English people, English noblewoman. As a young child she became a Ward (law), royal ward. She married John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and by him wa ...

Career

Berkeley

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, on 27 June 1590 at the age of 14. On 2 February 1589 he entered

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. He was created a

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on 25 July 1603 at the coronation of King

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. In 1604 he was elected Member of Parliament for

.. Berkeley died on 22 November 1611 at the age of 37.

Marriage and issue

Berkeley married Elizabeth Carey, daughter and sole heir of

George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon (1547 – 9 September 1603) was the eldest son of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and Anne Morgan, Baroness Hunsdon, Anne Morgan. His father was first cousin to Elizabeth I of England. In 1560, at the age of 13 ...

, and his wife, Elizabeth Spencer: *Theophila, born at her maternal grandparents' house at

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, 11 December 1596. She married Robert, eldest surviving son of

Edward Coke Sir Edward Coke ( , formerly ; 1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) was an English barrister, judge, and politician. He is often considered the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan era, Elizabethan and Jacobean era, Jacobean eras. Born into a ...

. * George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley, baptized 26 October 1601 at Low Leyton,

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References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Berkeley, Thomas 1575 births 1611 deaths English MPs 1604–1611 Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Members of Gray's Inn People from Gloucestershire 16th-century English people

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Heirs apparent who never acceded