Berkeley of Wymondham arms:- Quarterly. 1&4: gules, a chevron between ten cinquefoils argent. BERKELEY: 2&3: gules, a lion rampant ermine, crowned or. HAMELYN.[1]
Berkeley moved to Wymondham after marrying Isabel Hamelin,daughter of Sir John Hamelin of Wymondham,and niece of Sir William de Hamelin.[5][3][nb 1] Their coat of arms was later transmitted to the Hamlyn baronets.[7]
Towards the end of 1465,Berkeley became involved in a dispute with John Bourchier over the wardship and marriage of the underage grandson of former member of parliament Manser Marmion,whom Berkeley was accused of abducting.[9] The Marmion estate was composed of over 2,500 acres spread over several counties. As well as being an attractive prize,it was owned by way of a complex set of homages and services to multiple overlords.[9] It would seem Berkeley won and later wed his daughter Edith to the Marmion heir.[10][11][12]
In 1468,Berkeley accused William Purley of entering his land two years earlier and stealing 20 hares,200 rabbits,12 pheasants and 20 partridges using swords,bows,and arrows.[13] Purley was either found not guilty or let off for some reason as he appears to have later married Berkeley's daughter Joyce.[10][14][non-primary source needed]
Berkeley was appointed as Sheriff of Rutland in 1471 and as a Justice of the Peace for Rutland in 1470–1475.[2]Berkeley served in Parliament for Leicestershire between 1472 and 1475.[2]
Berkeley died in 1488. He is buried in an alabaster topped altar tomb with his wife Petronella in St Peter's Church,Wymondham.
Family
Berkeley married Emma[1]/Petronella Brokesby or Brooksby,[3] daughter of William Brokesby,[3] Marshall of the King's Hall,and wife Joan Alderwick,and had the following issue:
Sir Maurice Berkeley,[1] died 30 November 1522,[1] son and heir.
↑ John Hamelin's great grandfather William Hamelyn is thought to have gone on the Third Crusade with Richard the Lionheart. He is now thought to be the knight represented in a stone effigy in Wymondham church and not, as Nicholls suggested, the John Hamelyn who only appears to have taken part in the Scottish wars.[6]
1 2 3 4 5 6 Josiah Wedgwood (1936), History of Parliament 1439-1509 Biographies, London: HMSO
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 John Burke & John Bernard Burke (1844), Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland, London: John Russell Smith
1 2 John Burke (1838), A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, vol.4, London: Henry Colburn, p.227
15th-century English Member of Parliament and sheriff
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