232:(1271-1326) to his second son Maurice de Berkeley (d.1347). Philippa's son was Edward Berkeley (d.1707) MP, of Pylle, who married Elizabeth Ryves, daughter of John Ryves of Ranston, Dorset. Their second son was William Berkeley (d.1737) of Pylle (who was heir to his elder brother Maurice Berkeley (d.1717) MP of Pylle) who became in 1728 the second heir of Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet, who like his first heir Henry Seymour, changed his surname to Portman and also assumed the arms of Portman which he
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