Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley [SEP] date of death
Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley
Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley (5 January 1352/53 – 13 July 1417), "The Magnificent", of Berkeley Castle and of Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire, was an English peer and an admiral. His epithet, and that of each previous and subsequent head of his family, was coined by John Smyth of Nibley (d.1641), steward of the Berkeley estates, the biographer of the family and author of "Lives of the Berkeleys".
Origins
He succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Berkeley in 1326. They had the following issue:
- Maurice de Berkeley (born 1320, date of death unknown), who succeeded his father as Baron de Berkeley.
- Thomas de Berkeley, (born c. 1325, date of death unknown)
- Roger de Berkeley (born 1326, date of death unknown)
- Alphonsus de Berkeley (born 1327, date of death unknown)
- Joan de Berkeley (born 1330 – 1369), married Sir Reginald