Robert de Berkeley, 3rd feudal baron of Berkeley

[2] By 1213, with John bringing heavy financial pressure to bear, Robert made a deal under which some of his debt was forgiven for the services of ten knights during one year.

He was included in the excommunication of the barons pronounced by Innocent III, and Berkeley Castle and its lands were seized.

The manor of Cam, Gloucestershire was then granted to him for the support of his wife Juliana, niece of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.

[5] Robert was a benefactor of St Augustine's Abbey, Burdenstoke in Wiltshire, Stanley Priory in Gloucestershire, and the canons of Hereford.

He founded St Catherine's Hospital, Bedminster, near Bristol, as an Austin priory for a warden and poor brethren and two chantries elsewhere.

[2] William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury occupied the castle after Robert's death, however, claiming that the widowed Lucia was his niece, and pregnant.