Maurice de Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley
Maurice de Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley, The Valiant, feudal baron of Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, was an English peer. His epithet, and that of each previous and subsequent head of his family, was coined by John Smyth of Nibley, steward of the Berkeley estates, the biographer of the family and author of "Lives of the Berkeleys".
He was born in Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, the eldest son and heir of Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley by his wife Lady Margaret Mortimer.
In August 1338 Berkeley married Elizabeth le Despenser, daughter of Hugh Despenser the younger by his wife Eleanor de Clare. By Elizabeth he had seven children as follows:
- Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley, eldest son and heir, who married Margaret de Lisle, Baroness Lisle
- Sir James de Berkeley married Elizabeth Bluet; one of their sons was James Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley
- John de Berkeley
- Maurice de Berkeley married Jone Hereford
- Catherine de Berkeley
- Agnes de Berkeley
- Elizabeth de Berkeley
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