Person Sheet


Name Sir John Berkeley [5, Vol I, p. 355], [33, Table III, p. 96], [5, Vol II, p. 239], Half 4C4R
Death 18 Oct 1581
General 1st s. Of Beverston, Glos. MP.
Father Sir William Berkeley (-ca1549)
Mother Margaret Pawlet
Spouses
1 Frances Poyntz [5, Vol I, p. 355], [33, Table III, p. 96], [5, Vol II, p. 239], 1C2R
Death ca Aug 1576
Burial 27 Aug 1576, Beverston, Glos
General 3rd dau.
Father Sir Nicholas Poyntz (<1511-1556)
Mother Jane Berkeley (-1563)
Children John (-1622)
Jone
Katharine
Margaret
Notes for Sir John Berkeley
He and Frances had issue: John, Joan, Katherine and Margaret. His son John alienated Beverston to Sir John Poyntz, his cousin and who then ditto to Henry Fleetwood. This John eventually went to Virginia and was there killed in a battle with the American Indians.

John m. (2) an unknown woman of whom Smyth says "whose ill governed life after her husbands decease is unworthy of any memorial in these relations". They had no issue.

John m. Mary Snell and had 6 sons and 4 daus.

See Smyth on Thomas V Lord Berkeley for further info on this cadet branch.
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