Born in Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Elias Giffard
— married
1177 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at about age 30
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Mar 2011
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Research suggests that this person may never have existed. See the text for details.
Biography
- Maud Matilda FitzHarding Berkeley
- The details recorded for this person follow Smyth, Lives of the Berkeleys.
- However, most modern sources (especially see Cawley) consider Smyth to be in error on this point. The daughter of Maurice and Alice de Berkeley is better identified as Maud (Berkeley-363) (or Matilda), who married Elias Giffard (or Gifford) and had a son, Osbert.
- The corollary is that there was no daughter of Maurice and Alice who married an Osbert Giffard.
- Note also this person is replicated in De_Berkeley-181. Review of the validity of Gifford-187 may be warranted.
- This profile was attached as a daughter of Maurice and Alice de Berkeley but has been split from them for the reasons above. It remains in case a future re-creation of this person is proposed. (See also related policy discussion here.)
- Burial Place: Brentford Church, Middlesex
Sources
Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, Medieval Lands 3, ( 2006-2015), http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ .
John Smyth, The Berkeley Manuscripts: The lives of the Berkeleys, Lords of the honour, castle and manor of Berkeley in the county of Gloucester from 1066 to 1618, vol 1, (Gloucester: Printed by John Bellows, 1883), The Internet Archive .
Acknowledgements
- This person was created through the import of Consolidated Coningsby.GED on 11 March 2011.
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Categories: Uncertain Existence
Mother born c. 1130 vs about 1133. (is close OK ?). Husbands Name: Helias vs profile name Elias [ any explanation(s) ] thank you.