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     Lord Audley.

     5th Baron Audley.

     Thomas de Berkeley, aka Thomas the Rich (c. 1293 or 1296 – 27 October 1361) was an English baron and the custodian of the Berkeley Castle.

He was the son of Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley and Eve la Zouche.

In 1327 he was made joint custodian of the deposed King Edward II of England, whom he received at Berkeley Castle, but being commanded to deliver over the government to his fellow custodians, Lord Maltravers and Sir Thomas Gournay, he left there to go to Bradley with heavy cheere perceiving what violence was intended. As an accessory to the murder of the deposed king, he was tried by a jury of 12 knights in the 4th year of King Edward III of England, but was honourably acquitted.

His first marriage was to Margaret Mortimer, daughter of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Joan de Geneville. They had five children:

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, date of death unknown), married Sir Reginald Cobham.
Secondly, he married Catherine Clivedon (21 January 1351[sic] – 1428) on 30 May 1347 and had four children:

Thomas Berkeley (born 7 June 1348, date of death unknown)
Maurice de Berkeley, aka The Valiant, (27 May 1349 – 3 June 1368)
Edmund de Berkeley (born 10 July 1350, date of death unknown)
Sir John de Berkeley (21 January 1351 – 1428)
He died 27 October 1361 in Gloucestershire, England. His son from his first marriage, Maurice, succeeded him as 4th Baron de Berkeley.¹

     Agnes Mortimer, Countess of Pembroke (1317 – 25 July 1368), was the wife of Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke. She was a daughter of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Joan de Geneville, Baroness Geneville.[1]

Agnes Mortimer was one of the twelve children of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Joan de Geneville, Baroness Geneville. Her paternal grandparents were Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Mortimer and Margaret de Fiennes. Her maternal grandparents were Piers de Geneville, of Trim Castle and Ludlow, and Jeanne of Lusignan.

Agnes' father had just been created Earl of March, and was thus able to look for more powerful spouses for his children. In a brilliant set of marriages, Agnes was therefore married to Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke, a ward of her father's.[2] Her sister Beatrice was married to Edward, 2nd Earl of Norfolk. Agnes and Laurence had one surviving son, who was born after Laurence's death in 1348:

John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke

After Laurence's death, Agnes married John de Hakelut. There were no known children from this marriage. She died on 25 July 1368.¹

     1st Earl of Pembroke. Laurence de Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (20 March 1319 – 20 August 1348) was a Norman English nobleman and held the titles 1st Earl of Pembroke (3rd creation), Baron Abergavenny and Baron Hastings under Edward II of England and Edward III of England.

His father was John Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings and his mother Juliana Leyburne. He was born at Allesley in Warwickshire and christened at Allesley on the same day. He was created Earl of Pembroke in October 1339.

He married Lady Agnes Mortimer, the daughter of Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March with whom he had one son:

John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (born 1347)

He died at Abergavenny Castle in 1348 and is buried in the Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny.¹

     7th Earl of Ormond.