Maurice de Gaunt

Maurice de Gaunt (before 1200 – 1230) was the founder of Beverston Castle in Gloucestershire, England.

Beverston Castle was further enlarged in the mid-fourteenth century and saw action in the English Civil War.

He was the grandson of Robert Fitzharding, the founder of St Augustine's Abbey, which was the forerunner of Bristol Cathedral.

[1] Maurice de Gaunt was the founder, together with his nephew Robert de Gournay, of St Mark's Hospital in Bristol, otherwise known as Gaunt's Hospital.

The church of St Mark's Hospital later became the Lord Mayor's Chapel.