Born about in Mede's Place, Wraxell, Somerset, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Philip Meade
and Isabel (Ricard) Mede
Sister of
Richard (Mede) Meade
Wife of
Maurice Berkeley
— married
about 1465 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Maurice Berkeley, James (Berkeley) de Berkeley, Thomas Berkeley and Anne (Berkeley) Dennis
Died
at about age 70
in Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Mar 2011
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Biography
Isabel was born in 1432. Isabel is the child of Philip Mead, mayor of Bristol, and Elizabeth Sharpe. Isabel passed away in 1516.
- Parents: "Philip Meade, Esq., of Bristol and London, merchant, Mayor of Bristol..., his wife Isabel."[1]
Isabel's brother-in-law "bequeathed all his paternal lands to King Henry VII and his heirs male, either in exchange for his new marquessate or because he disapproved of his brother Maurice having married beneath the nobility to Isabel Mead, the daughter of Philip Meade, alderman & mayor of Bristol."[2]
They had three sons and one daughter. Lady Isabel Meade died May 29, 1514 in Coventry, Warwick, England.[3]
Sources
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Vol 1, p 184 BERKELEY #10. Maurice Berkeley
- ↑ William Denys. (2014, February 11). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13:55, May 11, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Denys&oldid=594948055
- ↑ biography from datafields for Meade-46 as of April 17, 2015; sources for profile: two Family Search links: 1 and 2
- The Lives of the Berkeleys Page 172
- https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:93RK-JW5
- https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:94XZ-S1Y
- Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: 2013), Vol. I. page 340.
Note on Surname
Special thanks to Charles Meads for information on the Meade name:
- "...the relatives of Nicholas atte Mede, Thomas atte Mede, and Philip Mede. All of these people from Bristol and Somerset county are from the original family of atte Mede, and they eventually changed their last name to Meade for a while, and then Meads in later times. They are NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE ONES WHO WERE CALLED 'MEAD' FOR MANY GENERATIONS, and that is the main difference between the Meads and Mead family. The Meads family of England and North America are descended from the atte Mede family of Somersetshire, and they never spelled it Mead. They changed it to Meade for a while, and then Thomas Meade's wife changed her son William's name to Meads, when they lived near William Shakespeare." (from a post to Liz Shifflett's profile page, April 16, 2015)
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Maurice Berkeley, born about 1435. He married in 1465 Isabel Meade (or Mede). They had three sons, and one daughter.
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