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".
University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, California | Berkeley | Baron | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | baron | Sacha Baron Cohen | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Joey Baron | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Busby Berkeley | A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (song) | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester | A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square | William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire | William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney | James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern | Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead | George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney | Berkeley Repertory Theatre | Beechcraft Baron | Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley | Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman | Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel | Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank | John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara | Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington | Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore |
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.