Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley Thomas de Berkeley (c. 1293 or 1296 – 27 October 1361), "The Rich", feudal baron of Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England, was a peer. His epithet, and that of each previous and subsequent head of his family, was 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". He was the eldest son and heir of Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley by his wife Eve la Zouche. In 1327 he was made joint custodian of the deposed
Berkeley Castle of the Tower of London and Windsor Castle, and the oldest to be continuously owned and occupied by the same family. It contains an antique four-poster bed that has been identified as the piece of furniture that has remained in continuous use by the same family the longest in the UK. The castle was used for many scenes for the first televised version of "The Other Boleyn Girl". More recently the castle and grounds have been used for the external shots of the Valencian castle in "Galavant". The castle is featured on an episode in the 2017 season of the