Richard and Charlotte Allen Cosby Ancestry » Roger de Berkeley, Dursley III (± 1105-1170)

Personal data Roger de Berkeley, Dursley III 

• Alternative name: of Dursley Sir Roger de Berkeley III
• He was born about 1105 in Berkeley, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England.
• Alternative: He was born in the year 1105 in Dursley, Gloucestershire, England.
• He died in the year 1170 in Dursley, Gloucestershire, England.Sources 1, 5
• A child of Roger II "Junior" de Berkeley

Household of Roger de Berkeley, Dursley III

(1) He is married to Hawise de Beaumont de Leicester.

They got married in the year 1135 at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England.

Child(ren):

1. Sir Walter de Berkeley.  1136-1190 

Child(ren):

1. Alice de Berkeley  ± 1140-> 1190 
2. Letitia de Berkeley  ± 1145-???? 

Notes about Roger de Berkeley, Dursley III

Roger de Berkeley, feudal Lord of Berkeley before the grant to Robert Fitz Harding. [Roger] had lost the manor of Berkeley c1152 for temporizing between Stephen I and the Empress Maud (mother of Henry II, who took Berkeley from Roger]. [Burke's Peerage]e Castle of Berkeley. He suffered much in the wars between Stephen and the Empress Maud, at the hands of Walter, son of Miles, Earl of Hereford. He was deprived of the Manor of Berkeley, &c., about 1152, apparently for refusing to recognise the authorIty of either party, though he was soon afterwards restored to the Honour Of Dursley (c). He died about 1170, leaving issue. The Castle and "herness" of Berkeley were granted by the King [to Robert FitzHarding]. [Complete Peerage II:124, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]e issue of his son and heir, Roger de Berkeley, by Helen, 1st daughter of Robert Fitz Harding, his successor in the lands of Berkeley for eight generations, when Nicholas Berkeley, the heir male, died s.p. in 1382. By the heir general, Robert Wykes, it was alienated in 1564. In 1404, by the death of Sir Nicholas Berkeley, of Coberley, co. Gloucester, the whole of the male issue of Roger, the founder of this race, became extinct.

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