Alice de Berkeley was first daughter, of her husband Maurice's dispossed predecessor, Roger de Berkeley, fuedal Lord of Dursley and Hawise Paynel
Alice de Berkeley married Maurice I "the make peace" fitz Robert, Lord of Berkeley, son of Robert I "the Devout" fitz Harding, Lord of Berkeley and Prioress Eva of Bristol, in 1153, She married Maurice, upon the insistence of king Henry II of England as a way to reconcile Roger de Berkely and the new Lord of Berkeley, Robert Fitz Harding. They agreed that the heiress of the ousted lord should be given in marriage to the heir of the new baron.
Alice founded the religious house called Magdalen's, near Bristol, and was it patroness. She died at an "extreame old age" and was buried beside her husband between the stalls of the Abbot and the Prior of the Abbey of St. Augustine in Bristol now known as Bristol Cathedral
Alice de Berkeley married Maurice I "the make peace" fitz Robert, Lord of Berkeley, son of Robert I "the Devout" fitz Harding, Lord of Berkeley and Prioress Eva of Bristol, in 1153, She married Maurice, upon the insistence of king Henry II of England as a way to reconcile Roger de Berkely and the new Lord of Berkeley, Robert Fitz Harding. They agreed that the heiress of the ousted lord should be given in marriage to the heir of the new baron.
Alice founded the religious house called Magdalen's, near Bristol, and was it patroness. She died at an "extreame old age" and was buried beside her husband between the stalls of the Abbot and the Prior of the Abbey of St. Augustine in Bristol now known as Bristol Cathedral
Alice de Berkeley was first daughter, of her husband Maurice's dispossed predecessor, Roger de Berkeley, fuedal Lord of Dursley and Hawise Paynel
Alice de Berkeley married Maurice I "the make peace" fitz Robert, Lord of Berkeley, son of Robert I "the Devout" fitz Harding, Lord of Berkeley and Prioress Eva of Bristol, in 1153, She married Maurice, upon the insistence of king Henry II of England as a way to reconcile Roger de Berkely and the new Lord of Berkeley, Robert Fitz Harding. They agreed that the heiress of the ousted lord should be given in marriage to the heir of the new baron.
Alice founded the religious house called Magdalen's, near Bristol, and was it patroness. She died at an "extreame old age" and was buried beside her husband between the stalls of the Abbot and the Prior of the Abbey of St. Augustine in Bristol now known as Bristol Cathedral
Alice de Berkeley married Maurice I "the make peace" fitz Robert, Lord of Berkeley, son of Robert I "the Devout" fitz Harding, Lord of Berkeley and Prioress Eva of Bristol, in 1153, She married Maurice, upon the insistence of king Henry II of England as a way to reconcile Roger de Berkely and the new Lord of Berkeley, Robert Fitz Harding. They agreed that the heiress of the ousted lord should be given in marriage to the heir of the new baron.
Alice founded the religious house called Magdalen's, near Bristol, and was it patroness. She died at an "extreame old age" and was buried beside her husband between the stalls of the Abbot and the Prior of the Abbey of St. Augustine in Bristol now known as Bristol Cathedral
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