Notes Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Giffard, p.639. note c), identifies him as MAUD's father. Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Berkeley, pp. 125-126). Known as Maurice "the make peace". In 1190 he was Justice Itinerant in Gloucestershire. He enlarged the castle of Berkeley, which thenceforth became the chief seat of, and gave the name to, the family. He m. in 1153/54, at Bristol, ALICE, 1st daughter (but not heiress) of his dispossessed predecessor, ROGER DE BERKELEY (subsequently fuedal lord of Dursley), with whom he had the manor of Slimbridge, as by agreement between their respective fathers.

Maurice I. Second Lord. 1170 to 1189.
Maurice the eldest son of Robert Fitz-Harding succeeded his Father, and was the first to take up his residence in the castle of Berkeley. He added to the fortifications of the castle by digging a ditch or moat on the northern side, it being already sufficiently defended on other sides by watercourses and low marshy ground; in doing this he encroached a little on the soil of the churchyard, which with the church had been given by his father to St. Augustine's. So tenacious however were the monks of their property and privileges, and so forgetful of former benefits, that they pursued the lord Maurice with ecclesiastical censures and threats of excommunication until he was forced to compound for his sacrilegious act by a large grant of rents, tithes and rights of pasturage. Maurice never forgot this ungrateful conduct, and though he had shown his good will to the abbey by a gift of lands in Hinton and Alkington, when he first succeeded to the Barony, he never afterwards looked with any favour upon them. He however founded two monastic establishments in Berkeley, viz. the Hospital of the master and brethren of Lorrenge, now called Lorridge farm, and the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Longbridge, at the north end of Berkeley adjoining the road to Wanswell. Maurice died in 1189, and was buried in the parish church of Brentford, to which he had been a great benefactor.