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 134 BERKELEY lands in England, Wales, and Ireland, on himself in tail general, with rem. to the King in tail male, with rem. to his own right heirs. For this con- sideration he received permission (of which he freely availed himself) to alienate divers other lands, and was cr., 28 Jan. 1488/9, MARQUESS (^) OF BERKELEY.(^) He w., istly, (at the age of about 41) in 1466, Elizabeth, da. of Reynold (West), Lord de la Warr,(') by Margaret, da. of Robert Thorley. From her he was divorced shortly afterwards, against which she appealed to Pope Paul II, who issued letters thereon, 20 Nov. 1467. ('^) He m., 2ndly, Nov. 1468, Joan, widow ot Sir William Wil- LouGHBY, da. of Sir Thomas Strangways, by Katharine, da. of Ralph (Nevill), Earl of Westmorland. She d. 24 Feb. 1484/5, (°) and was bur. if) This was but the 7th Marquessate that had ever existed in England. Of these, at the time of this creation, (excepting Suffolk (de la Pole) cr. 1444, which was not in use owing to there being a higher title, vix. Dukedom) there was but one, viz. Dorset (Grey), cr. 1475, in existence. For a list of the Marquessates conferred up to the end of the i6th century, see vol. v. Appendix H. C') According to Smyth's Berkeleys, his style, after 1 489, was " Marquess Berkeley, Earl Marshall and of Nottingham, Great Marshall of England, Viscount Berkeley, Lord of Berkeley, Lord of Mowbray and Segrave and Baron of Bedford." The Castle and manor of Bedford, and the manor of Segrave, co. Leicester, were among the large estates he inherited from the Mowbrays. With respect to the other titles, the Barony of Bedford was never a Peerage dignity, while (according to the decision of the Committee for Privileges in the case of the Barony of Mowbray) the abeyance of the Baronies of Mowbray and Segrave had been determined (apparently by Richard III) in favour of the Howard family, the junior coheirs thereof. G.E.C. He appears to have assumed the title of Lord and even of Viscount of Catherlough (Carlow), although he had inherited but a moiety of that Lordship on the death, in 1481, ofhis 1st cousin twice removed, Anne, only surv. child of John (Mowbray), Duke of Norfolk. There is a grant by him of the parish church of Carlow, dat. 10 Feb. (1484/5) 2 Ric. Ill, wherein he is styled " Willielmus Comes Nottingham Vice Comes Barkley et Carelagh alias Catyrlagh." {Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, ed. by John Gilbert, 1884-5, RoHs Series; ex inform. G. D. Burtchaell). Assuming this document to have been correctly transcribed, we have here another assumption of an Irish Viscountcy, in 1485, which would, if the Editor had then known of it, have been added to those mentioned in vol. i, Appendix A, p. 459- For a list of, and some remarks on, peerage titles assumed by peers, see vol. v. Appendix F. V.G. ('^) Some authorities wrongly state that this Reynold m. Eleanor, ist da. of Henry (Percy), 3rd Earl of Northumberland. V.G. {^) " An old writing of this Lord's time " shews that they were second cousins once removed, the bridegroom's maternal great-grandfather, John, Lord Mowbray, being father of Eleanor, wife of John, Lord de la Warr, great-grandmother to the bride. This relationship was probably the ground for the divorce, though Smyth (from whom this is quoted) adds "to this old writing I wholly subscribe not." (') Her only s., Thomas Berkeley, was b. Mar. 1469-70, and made K.B. 18 Apr. 1475, and though aged only 5 years, was betrothed in June following to Mary, da. of William (Herbert), Earl of Pembroke. He d. however shortly afterwards, and was bur. at Berkeley.