Governor William Berkeley

GPTKB entity

Properties (45)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Historical Figure
gptkbp:administrativeDivision Establishment of trade policies
gptkbp:affiliation Royalist
gptkbp:birthDate 1605
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:England
gptkbp:children gptkb:William_Berkeley_Jr.
gptkbp:contribution Expansion_of_Virginia's_territory
gptkbp:controversy gptkb:Bacon's_Rebellion
gptkbp:culturalImpact Influence_on_Virginia's_governance
gptkbp:deathDate 1677
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Virginia
gptkbp:descendant gptkb:Berkeley_family
gptkbp:diplomaticRelations Relations_with_Native_Americans
gptkbp:economicActivity Tobacco economy promotion
gptkbp:education gptkb:Oxford_University
gptkbp:governance Autocratic
gptkbp:historicalContext 17th century Virginia
gptkbp:historicalFigures Colonial_Governor
gptkbp:historicalPeriod gptkb:Colonial_America
gptkbp:historicalSignificance The Virginia Charter
Role_in_early_American_colonial_history
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Governor William Berkeley
gptkbp:influenced Colonial_Virginia_politics
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:King_Charles_I
gptkbp:influenceOn Virginia's_legal_system
gptkbp:knownFor Leadership_during_Bacon's_Rebellion
gptkbp:landUse Land_in_Virginia
gptkbp:legacy gptkb:Governor's_Palace_in_Williamsburg
gptkbp:militaryService English Civil War
gptkbp:nickname The_Royal_Governor
gptkbp:notableWork A Declaration of the People
gptkbp:politicalParty gptkb:Royalist_Party
Conflict with colonists
gptkbp:portrait gptkb:Sir_Peter_Lely
gptkbp:positionHeld Governor_of_Virginia
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:John_Harvey
gptkbp:religion Anglicanism
gptkbp:retired 1676
gptkbp:significantEvent gptkb:Bacon's_Rebellion
gptkbp:spouse Frances_Berkeley
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Richard_Bennett
gptkbp:termEnd 1652
1677
gptkbp:termStart 1660
1642