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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Dustcover has some storage wear but pages are in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The founder of the Berkeley family’s landed estate was Robert FitzHarding a merchant of Bristol who used his wealth to support the Empress Maud in her struggle againt King Stephen. From the empress’s half-brother Robert earl of Gloucester FitzHarding bought estates south of Bristol and by her son King Henry II he was granted the great estate centred on Berkeley from which his descendants took their surname. From the late 13th century onwards the Berkeleys added to the patrimony inherited from FitzHarding by an active policy of purchase and by a succession of prudent or fortunate marriages: some of their wives brought with them marriage portions while others more significantly were heiresses or through the failure of the male heirs in their families passed inheritances to their descendants. As a result of such matrimonial alliances within the archive at Berkeley Castle are muniments of the estates of the Lisles (including inheritances of the FitzGerold Armenters Foliot Tyeys and Pipard families) of the Bluets (including the inheritance of the ap Rees family) of the Mowbrays (including inheritances of the Beauchamp of Bedford Breouse Arundel Segrave Chaucombe and Brotherton families) the Blounts the Shirleys (including inheritances of the Drayton Prayers Cranford. (MP)