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Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding



Preferred Parents:
Father: Robert Fitz Harding, b. 1095 in Bristol, Bristol, England   d. 5 FEB 1171 in Bristol, Bristol, England

Family 1: Alice Berkeley,    b. ABT 1133 in Gloucestershire, England    d. ABT 12 MAR 1169 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
  1. Maud Berkeley, b. ABT 1160 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England     d. 1189 in Brentford, Middlesex, England
  2. Thomas de Berkeley, b. 1167 in Gloucestershire, England     d. 29 NOV 1243 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Sources:
  1. Title: Maurice FitzHarding & Berkeley in Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9QY-147R?cc=2060211&wc=WWF8-FQ7%3A352086701%2C352530501
    Author: "Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9QY-147R?cc=2060211&wc=WWF8-FQ7%3A352086701%2C352530501 : 20 May 2014), F > Fithian, Daniel (1798) - Fitzner, Daniel (1798) > image 983 of 1167; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, compiler, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9QY-147R;
    Note: Maurice FitzHarding (1120-1190 married Alice de Berkeley in 1153 and had children according to research before 1961
    Page: Names, dates, locations, and relationships match research
  2. Title: Lt-Col. W. H. Turton: "The Plantagenet Ancestry" Genealogic Publishing Company, Inc. Baltimore, 1993 (Orig 1928)
    Author: Genealogic Publishing Company, Inc. Baltimore, 1993 (Orig 1928)
    Note: relationships, dates
  3. Title: Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding (1130-1190, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-3MW7 : 1 July 2020), Maurice Fitz Hardinge, 1190; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG9-3MW7;
    Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83612416/maurice_fitzrobert-fitzharding Maurice FitzRobert “The Make Peace” FitzHarding BIRTH 1130 Bristol, Bristol Unitary Authority, Bristol, England DEATH 16 Jun 1190 (aged 59–60) Berkeley, Stroud District, Gloucestershire, England BURIAL Bristol Cathedral Bristol, Bristol Unitary Authority, Bristol, England PLOT ~Cokayne's Complete Peerage (Berkeley, pp. 125-126). MEMORIAL ID 83612416 Maurice I "the make peace" fitz Robert, Lord of Berkeley, was the son of Robert I "the Devout" fitz Harding, Lord of Berkeley and Prioress Eva of Bristol. He wasa Also called Maurice de Berkeley. Maurice married Alice de Berkeley, daughter of Roger de Berkeley and Hawise Paynel, in 1153 at or 1154.
  4. Title: The Medieval Lands Project, "MAURICE de Berkeley"
    Author: fmg.org
    Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#MauriceBerkeleydied1190;
    Note: MAURICE de Berkeley (-16 Jun 1190, bur Brentford church, Middlesex). “Robert Fitzharding” notified his grant of “land of Combe” to “his brother Helyas” by charter dated to [1150/60], witnessed by “Domina Eva, Maurice, Nicholas and Robert his sons...Otho son of William...”[1292]. “Robertus filius Hardingi” founded the priory of St Augustine at Bristol, during the reign of King Henry II, by undated charter witnessed by "Henrico decano Moretoniæ et Mauritio fratre eius…"[1293]. “Ricardus Foliot” granted “terram de Accatona et terram de Hanam et...de Hamtona” to “Mauricio filio Roberti filio Hardingi” by charter dated to before 1173, witnessed by “...Jurdano filio Hardingi et Helya filio Hardingi...”[1294]. “Roger de Berkeley” confirmed a grant of land to “Maurice son of Nigel” by charter dated to [1170/90, witnessed by “Dom. Maurice de Berkeley, Nicholas his brother, Robert de Berkeley and Richard his brother...”[1295]. A charter of King Edward II recalls the foundation of Bristol St Augustine, quoting a charter of King Henry II which was witnessed by “…Roberto filio Hardingi, Henrico et Mauricio filiis eius…”, and a charter of "Robertus filius Hardingi" witnessed by "Henri. archid. Exon. Mauricio, Nicholao, Roberto fratribus eius…"[1296]. The Red Book of the Exchequer refers to "Mauricius de Berkelay c s, Nicholaus frater eius" in Gloucestershire in [1186/87][1297]. The Red Book of the Exchequer, listing scutage payments in [1190/91], records "Mauricius de Berkelay" paying "l s, v milites" in Gloucestershire[1298]. m ([1153/54]) ALICE de Berkeley, daughter of ROGER [III] de Berkeley & his wife ---. The marriage contract between “Mauricius filius Rodberti filii Hardingi” and “filiam Rogeri de Berckel” (with “Slimbrugiam” as her dowry), as well as “filius Rogeri de Berckel qui heres est” and “filie Rodberti” or failing her “filiam Hugonis de Hasle neptim Rodberti filii Hardingi” (with “manerium Sistone prope Bristou” as dowry), is dated to [Nov 1153], witnessed by “...Helyas frater Rodberti filii Hardingi, Jordanus frater eius...”[1299]. Smyth quotes charters under which Alice granted "her manor of Slimbridge, being her owne franke marriage" to "Robert her eldest sonne", lands "in Radclivestreet" to "her sonne Thomas", lands in Berkeley "which she bought of William Heiron" to "William her sonne"[1300]. Maurice & his wife had [seven] children: (Matilda, Robert, Thomas, Maurice, William, Henrry and (unlikely) Richard).
  5. Title: Family linage THE BARONAGE OF ENGLAND AFTER THE Norman Conquest
    Author: THE BARONAGE OF ENGLAND AFTER THE Norman Conquest, Berkley pp350
    Publication: Name: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A36794.0001.001/1:6.84?rgn=div2;view=fulltext;
    Note: Jewell, William. The Golden Cabinet of True Treasure. London: John Crosley, 1612. Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, 2011, http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04486.0001.001, accessed 14 January 2019. The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition, discusses printed books published online (“Freely available electronic editions of older works”) in section 14.162 (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed17/part3/ch14/psec162.html). They suggest that such sources should be cited in notes as follows, with a stress on preserving the vital publication information and page references of the original book: William Jewell, The Golden Cabinet of True Treasure (London: John Crosley, 1612; Ann Arbor: Text Creation Partnership, 2011), chap. 8, p. 167, http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04486.0001.001. A bibliography entry would differ only slightly: Jewell, William. The Golden Cabinet of True Treasure. London: John Crosley, 1612; Ann Arbor: Text Creation Partnership, 2011. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04486.0001.001. The URLs cited above are taken from the version of the EEBO-TCP texts hosted by the University of Michigan Library. If you accessed the text through some other interface (e.g., ProQuest’s EEBO), you would cite that URL instead.
  6. Title: Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding de Berkeley (1120-1190), The Peearge
    Author: https://www.thepeerage.com/p12962.htm#i129612
    Publication: Name: https://www.thepeerage.com/p12962.htm#i129612;
    Note: Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding de Berkeley was born circa 1120 at Bristol, Gloucestershire, EnglandG.1 He was the son of Robert fitz Harding and Eve (?)1 He married Alice de Berkeley, daughter of Roger de Berkeley, in 1153/54 at Bristol, Gloucestershire, EnglandG.1 He died on 16 June 1190.1 He was buried at Church of Brentford, London, EnglandG.2 Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding de Berkeley also went by the nick-name of Maurice 'the Make Peace'.2 He gained the title of Lord de Berkeley [feudal baron] in 1171, confirmed by Queen Eleanor in 1189.1 He enlarged the Castle of Berkeley.1 He held the office of Justice Itinerant of Gloucestershire in 1190.1 Children of Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding de Berkeley and Alice de Berkeley Sir Robert de Berkeley2 b. c 1165, d. 13 May 1220 Thomas de Berkeley+2 b. c 1170, d. 29 Nov 1243 Citations: 1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 125. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. 2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 126.
  7. Title: Burke's Peerage
    Author: Charles Mosley, Editor: "Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, And Knightage" (106th Edition), Routledge, Abingdon, 1999 ISBN-10: 1579580831, ,ISBN-13: 978-1579580834
  8. Title: Maurice fitzRobert fitzHarding in "Robert Fitzharding (1095-1170), Wikipedia
    Author: Wikipedia.org
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fitzharding#Descendants;
    Note: Robert Fitzharding (c. 1095–1170) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman from Bristol who was granted the feudal barony of Berkeley in Gloucestershire. Robert's first son, and heir, was Maurice fitzRobert fitzHarding, also known as Maurice de Berkeley, born c. 1120. Duke Henry of Aquitaine (the future Henry II) had clearly regretted the effect of his action in dispossessing Roger de Berkeley of his former lands, and determined to facilitate the junction of the two families by encouraging dual intermarriages. In 1153–54 Maurice married Alice, the first daughter of the dispossessed Roger de Berkeley, who was now feudal baron of nearby Dursley. At the same time Robert's first daughter Helen married Roger's heir, also called Roger. This double marriage contract, binding the son and heir of each man to marry a daughter of the other, was signed at the house of Robert FitzHarding in Bristol in the presence of Duke Henry and 16 witnesses.
  9. Title: Maurice FitzRobert FitzHarding, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-TQNB : 9 June 2021), The Make Peace, ; Burial, Bristol, Bristol Unitary Authority, Bristol, England, Bristol Cathedral; citing record ID 83612416, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-TQNB;
  10. Title: Wikipedia, "Berkeley Castle"
    Author: Wikipedia.org
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Castle;
    Note: History of the castle.
  11. Title: G. E. Cokayne: "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom"
    Author: G E Cokayne: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; Palgrave Mac\Mmillan (New York, November 1984); ISBN-10: 031215836X, ISBN-13: 978-0312158361
    Publication: Name: http://myheritage.com;

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