1599 - 1654 (55 years)
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Name |
Maurice Berkeley |
Prefix |
Sir |
Suffix |
MP |
Birth |
1599 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1654 |
Person ID |
I81912 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
7 Aug 2017 |
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Notes |
- Sir Maurice Berkeley (by 1514? 81) of Bruton in Somerset, was an English politician who rose rapidly in the Tudor court. He came from a cadet branch of the great Berkeley family of Berkeley Castle, but in his career his initial advantage was his mother's second marriage to Sir John FitzJames, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1526? 1539, which by 1538 had brought him into the household of Thomas Cromwell, from which he passed into the royal household by 1539
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