Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley Henry VII and his heirs male. The crown's right having expired with Edward VI, they were restored to Henry, the 11th Lord Berkeley in December 1554." On 13 May 1555 he had livery of his lands, although still underage. Berkeley is said to have rebuilt Caludon Castle about 1580, which had fallen into disrepair after the banishment from England in 1398 of Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, by Richard II. He was Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire from 1603 until his death. Berkeley died 26 November 1613, leaving a will dated 20 December 1612. He was succeeded by his grandson,
Berkeley Castle (as they themselues confessed) praied heartilie to God to receiue his soule, when they vnderstood by his crie what the matter ment.Christopher Marlowe's tragedy "Edward II" ("The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second, King of England", first published 1594) depicts the murder at Berkeley Castle, using props mentioned in Holinshed, and popular stories of a red hot poker or suffocation continue to circulate. The cell where Edward is supposed to have been imprisoned and murdered can still be seen, along with the adjacent 11 m (36 ft) deep dungeon, which supposedly echoes the events of the murder