William Berkeley (Knight)

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Sir William Berkeley of Weoley, Stoke Gifford and Uley (* around 1436, † 1501 ) was an English knight .

Life

William was a son of Sir Maurice Berkeley of Stoke Gifford and Uley and Ellen (Eleanor), daughter of Sir William Montfort of Coleshill.

He was entrusted in 1469/70 as Justice of Array with regulatory tasks, was temporarily as Knight of the Shire for Worcestershire Member of Parliament and was 1484/85 Sheriff of Gloucestershire . William was a courtier under Edward IV and was commissioned in 1475 with Sir John Parr , Master of the Horse for the Kings Household , to buy horses for the royal court in Flanders .

During the Wars of the Roses, William fought for the House of York in 1471 at the Battle of Barnet and Tewkesbury .

On the occasion of the coronation of Richard III. he was beaten on July 6, 1483 to the Knight of the Bath .

In early 1485 Sir William was given Beverston Castle , which belonged to his cousin, William Berkeley of Bettesthorne. This had Beverston Castle due to his involvement in the Buckingham rebellion against Richard III. lost.

On August 22, 1485, Sir William fought for Richard III. at the Battle of Bosworth and was removed from office by the victorious Henry VII . Sir William also lost all of his rights ( English Bill of Attainder ), his possessions were confiscated and some of them fell to Heinrich's uncle, Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford .

In 1489 Sir William was rehabilitated and his Northfield Manor estate was restored to him as soon as Jasper Tudor died. When Jasper Tudor died in 1495, Sir William Northfield Manor did not get back as promised, but much of it became the property of the Crown.

Sir William died in 1501.

Marriage and offspring

Sir William was married to Anne, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford of Grafton.

The couple had the following offspring:

  • Richard ⚭ Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Humphrey Conningsby
  • Anne ⚭ 1) Sir John Gyse and 2) Sir William Kingston
  • Katherine ⚭ Maurice Berkeley

literature

  • Egerton Brydges: Collins's Peerage of England. Volume III, London 1812, p. 612.
  • John and Bernhard Burke: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Volume X, Henry Colburn, London 1848, p. 90.
  • Lothrop Withington: Virginia Gleaning in England. Genealogical Publishing Com., 1980, ISBN 978-0-806-30869-2 , p. 289.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Towton Battlefield Society
  2. ↑ a b c d Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition , Douglas Richardson 2011, ISBN 978-1-461-04513-7 , p.632 / 633
  3. ↑ FLWeis, WLSheppard, WRBeall, KEBeall: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist who came to America before 1700 , Genealogical Publishing Com. 2004, ISBN 978-0-806-31752-6 , p. 177.
  4. ↑ Susan.E.James: Art.VII Sir John Parr of Kendal 1437-1475 Archeology Data Service The University of York, S. 86th
  5. ^ William A. Shaw: Knights of England , Genealogical Publishing Com. 2002, ISBN 978-0-806-30443-4 , p. 141.
  6. ↑ a b Deberett’s Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom. Volume XXII, London 1838, p. 373.
  7. ↑ a b Terry Breverton: Jasper Tudor , Amberley Publishing Ltd. 2014, ISBN 978-1-445-63402-9
personal data
SURNAME Berkeley, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berkeley, Sir William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English knight
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1501