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English: St Mary's parish church, Bruton, Somerset: part of the chest tomb of Sir Maurice Berkeley (died 1581) and his two wives. Sir Maurice was Standard Bearer to Henry VIII, Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I. Bruton Abbey and Church were granted to Sir Maurice in 1546 and his family eventually became Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1658), acquiring land in London for their townhouse, and giving their name to Berkeley Square, Stratton Street and Bruton Street in Mayfair. His wives died in 1559 and 1585. See brass plaque Arms: Quarterly of 4:
  • 1: Berkeley of Bruton. Armorials of Berkeley of Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire: Gules, a chevron ermine between ten crosses pattée argent. These arms may be seen in The Gaunts Chapel, Bristol. Blazon quoted in: Barker, W.R. St Mark's or The Mayor's Chapel, Bristol, Formerly called the Church of the Gaunts. Bristol, 1892, p.148. These are the arms of the Barons Berkeley of Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, with the difference of a chevron ermine in place of a chevron argent. Also arms of their descendants Berkeley of Bruton Abbey, Somerset, and Berkeley of Pylle, Somerset (descended from Berkeley of Bruton). See clearer image[1]
  • 2: Botetourt: Or, a saltire engrailed sable (wife of his great-great-great-grandfather Maurice Berkeley (1333-1361) Catherine de Botetourt, daughter and heiress of John de Botetourt, 2nd Baron Botetourt (c.1318-1386) by his wife Joyce la Zouche, daughter and eventual heiress of William la Zouche, 1st Baron Zouche of Mortimer)
  • 3: Somery: Or, two lions passant guardant azure (The mother of John Botetourt, 2nd Baron Botetourt (d. 1385), was Joan de Somery, a daughter of Roger de Somery (1255-1291) and the younger of the two sisters and co-heiresses of John de Somery, 1st Baron Somery (1279-1322), of Dudley Castle, Staffordshire; (Cokayne, G. E. & Geoffrey H. White, eds. (1953). The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times, volume XII part 1: Skelmersdale to Towton. Vol 12.1 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press, pp.114-115; Arms shown on the Parliamentary Roll (Sire Perceval de Somery of Warwickshire): Azure, two lions passant or. Roger de Somery bore the arms of the Paynel family (early feudal overlord at Little Crawley, Bucks): Or, two lions passant azure (Complete Peerage, Vol 12.1, p.113)
  • 4: Zouche (of North Molton & Ashby, senior line): Gules, ten bezants four, three, two and one differenced by a label of three points
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