Thomas Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley
Thomas Berkeley, de jure 5th Baron Berkeley, was an English soldier and aristocrat.
He was born to Sir Maurice Berkeley, de jure 3rd Baron Berkeley, and Isabel Meade, in England. He was the younger brother to Maurice Berkeley, de jure 4th Baron Berkeley, and had a younger brother, James, and a younger sister, Anne.
On 9 September 1513, he fought in the Battle of Flodden and was knighted by the Earl of Surrey, Thomas Howard. He later became Constable of Berkeley Castle on 15 May 1514, and Sheriff of Gloucestershire, November 1522 – November 1523. By writ, he was succeeded to the title of de jure 5th Baron Berkeley on 12 September 1523 after his brother Maurice's death, and his eldest son Thomas followed as the de jure 6th Baron Berkeley, again by writ.
Marriage and children
He firstly married in 1504/1505, to Alienor Constable, daughter of Marmaduke Constable, eldest son of Sir Robert Constable of Flamborough, Yorkshire, and Agnes Wentworth, daughter of Roger Wentworth of North Elmsall, Yorkshire and Margery le Despencer, by his second wife, Joyce Stafford, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford, who was the son of Sir Humphrey Stafford of Grafton, Worcestershire and Eleanor Aylesbury, the daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury and his second wife, Katherine Pabenham. Alienor was the widow of John Ingleby of Ripley, Yorkshire. Thomas and Alienor had two sons and two daughters.- Thomas Berkeley, de jure 6th Baron Berkeley, married, firstly, Mary Hastings and had no issue. His second marriage was to Anne Savage in April 1533, which produced a son and a daughter. His son, Henry Berkeley, became the de facto 7th Baron Berkeley in 1553.
- Maurice Berkeley
- Muriel Berkeley, was married to Robert Throckmorton of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, in 1527, and had one son and four daughters.
- Joan Berkeley who firstly married Nicholas Poyntz on 24 Jun 1527. Secondly, she married Thomas Dyer sometime after 1556. Dyer's ill-treatment of Joan was a source of scandal, and is thought to have caused her death in 1564.