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unusual facts about Baron Berkeley


Baron Berkeley

The epithets of each baron were coined by John Smyth of Nibley(d.1641), steward of the Berkeley estates, the biographer of the family and author of "Lives of the Berkeleys".


Pickwell

After the death of John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk, in 1476, and of his daughter and heir Anne in 1481, the Mowbray estates were divided between the representatives of her two co-heirs, one of whom, William, Lord Berkeley, obtained the overlordship of Pickwell and Leesthorpe for considerable time for his family: last mentioned in connection with Pickwell and Leesthorpe in 1630.


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