File:Berkeley (of Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire) Quartered Arms.svg

Quartered arms of Sir Maurice Berkeley (9 Feb 1401-1464), of Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, MP for Gloucestershire in 1425 and 1429. As seen on his monument in the chancel of The Gaunts Chapel (now St Mark's Church) in Bristol. Born posthumously. "He was made a ward of one of the ‘King’s knights’, Sir Francis Court, and was destined to be even wealthier than his father, for in 1407, when his father's first cousin Joyce, Lady Burnell (wife of Hugh Burnell, Baron Burnell and daughter of John de Botetourt (dvp.1369), son and heir apparent of the 2nd Baron) suo jure Baroness Botetourt, died childless, he inherited a third part of the abeyant barony of Botetourt. On proving his age in 1423 he took possession of both the Berkeley and his share of the Botetourt estates, and as Sir Maurice Berkeley he was returned for Gloucestershire to the Parliaments of 1425 and 1429". (History of Parliament biog). He married Ellen Montfort, a daughter of William Montfort.

Quarterly of four (source: information sheet in St Mark's Church, Bristol):

• 1: Berkeley of Stoke Gifford: Gules, a chevron ermine between ten crosses pattée six in chief and four in base argent;
• 2: Botetourt: Or, a saltire engrailed sable;
• 3: Somery: Or, two lions passant azure (shown here as Or, two lions passant guardant sable) (The mother of John Botetourt, 2nd Baron Botetourt (d. 1385), was Joan de Somery, a daughter of Roger de Somery (1255-1291) and the younger of the two sisters and co-heiresses of John de Somery, 1st Baron Somery (1279-1322), of Dudley Castle, Staffordshire; (Cokayne, G. E. & Geoffrey H. White, eds. (1953). The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times, volume XII part 1: Skelmersdale to Towton. Vol 12.1 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press, pp.114-115; Arms shown on the Parliamentary Roll (Sire Perceval de Somery of Warwickshire): Azure, two lions passant or. Roger de Somery bore the arms of the Paynel family (early feudal overlord at Little Crawley, Bucks): Or, two lions passant azure (Complete Peerage, Vol 12.1, p.113)
• 4: Zouche: Gules, ten bezants 4,3,2,1 with label of three points argent for difference