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,
Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley held quietly for almost two hundred years together? As D.C. Peck explains: Litigation over the Berkeley lands had been going on for two centuries; at this time it was pursued by the Dudleys against Henry (d. 1613), seventh Lord Berkeley, Lord Harry Howard's brother-in-law, from whom they were able to recover several manors. In August 1574 Leicester persuaded the Queen to leave her itinerary and be his guest at Berkeley Castle in its lord's absence, as if it were his own. Berkeley first married, in September 1554, at Kenninghall, Norfolk, Katherine Howard, third daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey,