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Elizabeth Berkeley Beaumond Sutton - Brief Biography
Elizabeth is the daughter of John de Berkeley Baron of Berkeley who descended from a long line of Berkeley’s who were famous for not only their courage and service to the crown, but also for their well known nick-names: Thomas the Rich, Maurice the Magnanimous, Thomas the Wise, Maurice the Resolute, Thomas the Observer or Temporiser, Maurice the Make Peace, back to John’s five great-grandfather Robert the Devout. Her mother was Elizabeth Betteshorne, John’s second wife.
At about eight years of age, Elizabeth was promised in marriage to Edward Cherleton Lord of Cherleton, a recent widower. Edward was about thirty years Elizabeth’s senior and, while the marriage did take place, it is doubtful that it was ever consummated due to her age at the time. Her second marriage to John VI Sutton was far more successful with both being near the same age. Despite the fact that her husband was frequently away from home, involved in matters of state and war, the couple was the parents of eight children - all of whom survived to adulthood.
In 1459 Elizabeth was named in the will of her sister, Eleanor Hungerford Countess of Arundel, who bequeathed her a row of pearls.
Elizabeth lived to a very old age for a woman of those days, dying shortly before 8 December 1478 at around seventy-eight years of age. Considering she and her second husband were married for over fifty-eight years theirs must have been a good marriage. Elizabeth may be one of those rare ancestresses of ours from the medieval years who had both a long and a good life.
found on ancestry.com
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