Richard Berkeley (died 1604)

[3] His mother, Isabel, married secondly, as his second wife, Arthur Porter (c.1505–1559) of Newent and Alvington, MP for Gloucestershire in November 1554, for the City of Gloucester in 1555 and for Aylesbury in 1559.

This construction was at about the same time his uncle Sir Maurice Denys (d. 1563) was rebuilding nearby Siston Court, which survives in original form.

It is situated about 1 1/2 miles south of the parish church of St. Michael, Stoke Gifford, and its parkland has now been intersected by the M32 motorway from which the present house of 1750, painted yellow, is a very prominent sight.

On an entablature on the wall behind the effigy, surmounted by the arms of Berkeley of Stoke Gifford (Gules, a chevron ermine between ten crosses pattee argent), is the following Latin inscription:

If any one should take up the enquiry as to who I am, reply I know not, but let that man be advised to know himself”His epitaph follows: Whom youth could not corrupt, nor change of dayes Add anything but years, he, full of them As they of knowledge, what need this stone prayse Whose epitaph is writt in the heartes of men That did this world and her child Fame despise His soule w.th (with) God, loe here his coffin lyes Obiit : Aprilis : xxvi : Ano.

Effigy of Sir Richard Berkeley (d. 1604), The Gaunts Chapel , Bristol
Arms of Berkeley of Stoke Gifford: Gules, a chevron ermine between ten crosses pattee argent . These arms may be seen in The Gaunts Chapel, Bristol and are the arms of the Barons Berkeley with the difference of a chevron ermine in place of a chevron argent
Stoke Gifford Hall (later "Stoke Park"), as re-built in 1533 by Sir Richard Berkeley. Drawn by Johannes Kip in 1707, when it belonged to John Symes Berkeley , Esquire, as stated by the caption above which displays the arms of Berkeley of Stoke Gifford. Published in Britannia Illustrata 1724 edition
Monument and effigy of Sir Richard Berkeley (d. 1604) of Stoke Gifford, in The Gaunts Chapel , Bristol
1892 drawing of effigy of Sir Richard Berkeley (d. 1604) of Stoke Gifford, in The Gaunts Chapel , Bristol
Epitaph to Sir Richard Berkeley (d. 1604) above his effigy in the Gaunt's Chapel, Bristol