Biography

Updated 12 September 2024

Ralph Greystoke, 5th Lord Greystoke, was born about 1408 in Greystoke, Northumberland, England. He was christened in (22+ 1436). He died on Jun 1 1487 in Kirkham, Northumberland, England. He was buried in Monastery, Kirkham, Northumberland, England.

He was the son of John Greystoke (d. 1436), 4th Lord Greystoke, and his wife Elizabeth Ferrers of Wembley.

Ralph Greystoke married 3 times.

1. Elizabeth (or Isabel) FitzHugh obtained a marriage license on July 1,1436, the date of Papal Dispensation for being related in the 4th and 4th degrees of kindred. Born about 1419, Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England; Elizabeth FItzHugh died Mar 20,1468/9, Greystoke Manor, Northumberland, England. She was the daughter of William FitzHugh (d. 1452) 4th Lord FitzHugh, and his wife Margery Willoughby.
   1. They had 6 sons (Sir Robert; John; Richard, a clerk; Ralph; William; & William) and 6 daughters (Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas, 5th Lord Scrope of Masham, & of Sir Gilbert Talbot; Joan; Isabel Margery, wife of Sir Thomas Gray; Mary, wife of Thomas Salvain, Esq. & of Edmund Hastings; & Anne).
2. Ralph Greystoke married 2nd after 20 Mar 1469 to Elizabeth Tyrrell, daughter of John Tyrrell.
   1. Children were: Ann Greystock, b. in Yorkshire, England
3. Ralph Greystoke married 3rd to Beatrice Hawclyf, Sept 20,1483, at Hindersklef Chapel. Born about 1415, died April 20, 1505. She married 2nd to Robert Constable. No issue.

CracroftsPeerage.co.uk

• Ralph [de Greystock], 5th Baron Greystock
• Born b. c. 1414
• mar. (1) Elizabeth FitzHugh, 1st dau. of William [FitzHugh], 4th Baron FitzHugh, by his wife Margery de Willoughby, dau. by his first wife of William [de Willoughby], 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
  • Children by first wife:
    • 1. Ralph de Greystock (dvp. 15 Jul 1483)
    • 2. Sir Robert de Greystock (dvp. and spm. 17 Jun 1483), mar. (1) Margaret Grey (dsp.), 2nd dau. of Sir Edward Grey, jure uxoris Baron Ferrers of Groby, by his wife Elizabeth Ferrers, suo jure Baroness Ferrers of Groby, only dau. and hrss. of Sir Henry Ferrers (by his wife Lady Isabel de Mowbray, 2nd dau. by his second wife of Thomas [de Mowbray], 1st Duke of Norfolk), 1st son and heir ap. by his first wife of William [de Ferrers], 5th Baron Ferrers of Groby, and (2) Lady Elizabeth Grey, 1st dau. of Edmund [Grey], 1st Earl of Kent, by his wife Lady Katherine Percy, 2nd dau. of Henry [Percy], 1st Earl of Northumberland, and had issue by his second wife:
      • 1a. Elizabeth de Greystock, later suo jure Baroness Greystock
    • 3. John de Greystock (d. c. 1504), mar. after 13 Jan 1485/5 Lady Cicely Herbert (d. 1499), 1st dau. of William [Herbert], 1st Earl of Pembroke, by his wife Anne Devereux, sister of Walter [Devereux], 1st Baron Ferrers, and dau. of Sir Walter Devereux. of Bodenham, co. Hereford, and had issue:
      • 1a. John de Greystock (d. an infant)
    • 4. Richard de Greystock, Prebendary of Lincoln, Rector of Wheldrake and Brompton (d. 1496)
    • 5. William de Greystock (d. young)

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    • 1. Joan de Greystock
    • 2. Isabel de Greystock
    • 3. Margaret de Greystock, mar. Sir Thomas Grey, of Heton and Warke, co. Northumberland, Captain of Norham Castle (d. bef. 1481), and had issue
    • 4. Mary de Greystock, mar. (1) Thomas Salvin, of Newbiggin, and (2) Sir Edmund Hastings
    • 5. Anne de Greystock
    • 6. Elizabeth de Greystock (d. after 20 Dec 1483), mar. (1) after 4 May 1453 Thomas [le Scrope], 5th Baron Scrope of Masham, and (2) after 1475 as his first wife Sir Gilbert Talbot KG, of Grafton, co. Worcester (d. 19 Sep 1518), 4th son of John [Talbot], 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, by his wife Lady Elizabeth Butler, only dau. by his first wife of James [Butler], 4th Earl of Ormonde, and had issue by both husbands
  • mar. (2) after 20 Sep 1485 Beatrice Hatcliff (mar. (2) after 10 Jul 1490 Sir Robert Constable, of North Cliff in Sancton, co. York, Serjeant-at-Law (d. 22 Nov 1501), 2nd son of Sir Robert Constable, of Flamborough, co. York, by his wife Agnes Wentworth, dau. of Sir Philip Wentworth, of Nettlestead, co. Suffolk; d. 20 Apr 1505), sister of Richard Hatcliff, and dau. of William Hatcliff, of Grimthorpe, co. York
  • Died 1 Jun 1487
    • suc. by grand-daughter
    • Note: Master Forester of the Forest of Galtres and Steward of the Lordship of Langton 1486

BOOK

• Richardson, Douglas. 2011. “Greystoke.” In Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study In Colonial and Medieval Families, edited by Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd ed., 282–85. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Douglas Richardson. Google Books.
  • 11. RALPH GREYSTOKE, Knt., 5th Lord Greystoke, Master-Forester of the Forest of Galtres, Steward of the lordship of Langton, Yorkshire, son and heir, born about 1414 (aged 22 in 1436).
    • He married (1st) by papal dispensation dated 1 July 1436 (they being related in the 4th and [5th] degree of kindred ELIZABETH (or ISABEL) FITZ HUGH, daughter of William Fitz Hugh, Knt., 4th Lord Fitz Hugh, of Ravensworth, Yorkshire, by Margery, daughter of William Willoughby, K.G., 5th Lord Willoughby of Eresby [see FITZ HUGH 8 for her ancestry].
    • They had six sons, Robert, Knt., John, Richard (clerk), Ralph, William, and William(2nd of name), and six daughters, Elizabeth, Joan, Isabel, Margery, Mary (wife of Thomas Salvain, Esq., and Edmund Hastings), and Anne. He was a legatee and one of the executors of his father's 1436 will. He was summoned to Parliament from 29 Oct. 1436 to 26 Sept. 1439, by writs directed ‘Radulpho Barani et Greystok’, and from 3 Dec. 1441 to 15 Sept. 1485, by writs directed ‘Radulpho Graystok or de Graystok’,rhiialsr. He was a Trier of Petitions in Parliament in 1453, and again in 1461. He accompanied the King in his expedition to the North in 14d2. His wife, Elizabeth, died 20 March 1468/9.
  • He married (2nd) ELIZABETH TYRRELL, daughter of John Tyrrell. They had one daughter, Anne.
  • He married (3rd) at Hinderskelf, Yorkshire by license dated 20 Sept. 1483 BEATRICE HAWCLIFF (or HATCLIFF), sister of Richard Hawcliff. They had no issue. In 148s, as ”Ralph, lord de Greystok and Wemme,” he conveyed the site of his manor of Grimthorpe (in Great Givendale), Yorkshire to feoffees.
  • SIR RALPH GREYSTOKE, 5th Lord Greystoke, died 1 June 1487. He left a will dated 27 May 1487, proved 30 July 1487, requesting burial in the chancel of Kirkham Abbey, Yorkshire.
    • His widow, Beatrice, married (and) by license dated 18 July 1490 ROBERT CONSTABLE, Esq., of North Cliffe (in Sancton), Yorkshire, Serjeant-at-Ian, Justice of Assize, 2nd son of Robert Constable, Knt., of Flamborough, Yorkshire, by Agnes, daughter of Philip Wentworth, Knt. They had two sons, Marmaduke and Robert, and three daughters, Agnes (wife of Henry Thwaites, Knt.), Elizabeth, and Jane. ROBERT CONSTABLE, Esq., died 22 Nov. 1501. He left a will dated 2 Sept. 1501, proved 13 Jan. 1501/2. Following his death, his widow, Beatrice, took the veil. Beatrice, Lady Greystoke, died 20 April 1505, and was buried at Sancton, Yorkshire. She left a will dated 12 April 1505, proved5 June 1505, requesting burial in the parish church of Sancton, Yorkshire.
  • SOURCES: Garbel Hist. of Wem (1818): 42–45. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 401. Nicolas Testamente Vestuta 1 (182ó): 230-231 (will of John Lord Greystock). Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland 2(2) (1832): 37t-379. Call. Top. el Gen. 2 (1835):1 ó0–161 (Greystock ped: “Ralph Ld. Greystock t1] - Elizabeth, dau. of Wm. Lord Fitzhugh. = 2. EIiz. dau.of John Terell, sister of Sor James Terell") 5 (1838)! 313–317 (sub Greystoke). Testamente Eborancensia 3 (Surtees Soc. 45) (186a): 273n., 327–328 (abs. of dispensation): 4 (Surtees Soc. 53) (18ó9): 20–21 (will of Sir Ralph Greystock), 195–197 (will of Robert Constable). 23ó–239 (will of Beatrix Lady Greystock). Yorkshire Arch. & Top. Jour. 2 (1873). 19a–214. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563–4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 151 (Grestoke ped.: "Radulphus Dominus de Gresloke, |1] = ‘Elizabeth fillia Domini Willielmi Domini Fytzhugh’, [2] - Elizabeth filia Johannis Terell et soror Domini Jacobi Terell Militis 2 uxor.“). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 3 (1894): 42–43 (seal of Ralph Greystoke, Lord Greystoke dated 1444 – A shield of arms, couché: quarterly, 1, 4, quarterly i. iv. Barry of six, three chapfets two and one [GREYSTOKE]: ii., iii., three lozenges. two and one GREYSTOKE (another coat)]: 2, 3, FERRERS of Wem (?). Crest on a helmet and ornamental mantling elegantly designed, a double plume of Weathers. Legend: Sigillum: radulph [* baron is de greysytok * Beaded borders.). C.P.P. 1461-14ó7 (1897)] 458 (Ralph lord of Graystok kt. styled "king's kinsman"). C.P.R. 14ó7–1477 (1900): 115, 369 (instances of Ralph Greystoke styled "king's kinsman”). Arch. Ællana 24 (1903): 120. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 191–192. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 95–98 (sub Greystock). Papal Regs. Letters 11 (1921): ó64 (son Richard Greystoke, clerk, styled kinsman” (cognatus] of King Edward IV of England. they being related in the 2nd and 3rd degrees) 13(2) (1955): 712. Arch. Æliana 3rd Ser. 20 (1 g23): 152 (seal of Ralph Greystock dated 1470: ”Red, round, 46 mm., armorial, quarterly and IV quarterly,1 and 4 Barry three chaplets (Fitz William)2 and 3, three cushions (Greystock) II and IIIa fess checky between six crosses crosslet (Botiler afterwards Ferrers of Wemme). The shield is couched and above it is a mantled helm with a bush of feathers as crest. Legend: “sigillum: radulphi: [dom]inis: de: greystok.”). C P. 6 (J92ó): 197–199 (sub Greystoke). Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930) ! 23–32 (Neville ped.: “Radulphus dominus Graystok nupsit Elizabetham filiam domini Fitzhugh” [Ralph, lord of Graystok, married Elizabeth, daughter of lord Fitzhugh]), 132-133 (Fitzhugh ped.: “Elizabeth (Fitzhugh] nupta Radulpho domino de Graystoke” [Elizabeth [Fitzhugh] married to Lord Ralph of Graystoke]), 139–141 (Greystoke ped.: ”Radulphus dominus de Graystok” [Ralph lord of Graystok] [1] = “Elizabeth filia domini Willelmi domini Fitzhugh” [Elizabeth, daughter of Lord William, Lord Fitzhugh], |2] = “Elizabeth filia lohannis Terell et soror domini lacobi Terell militis” [Elizabeth, daughter of John Terell, and sister of Sir Jacob Terell, soldier]). Yorkshire Deeds 8 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 102) (1940): 71. Thorne Prerogativa Regis (Selden Soc. 71) (1954). Paget Baronetage of England)1957) 265: 9-10. Langley Reg. of Thomas Langley 4 (Surtees Soc. 170) (19ó1): 204–207 (will of John Lord Greystoke). Rotherham Reg. of Thomas Rotherham Archbishop of York 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 69) (1976): 37 (styled “Sir Ralph Graistok, lord of Graistok and of Weme"), 38, 205-206, 232. VCH Yorkshire E.R. 3 (1976).164–170. Ives Canon Lawyers of Pro-Reformation England. Thomas Kebell (1983): 458–45g (biog. of Robert Constable). Yorkshire Arch. 61 (198a). ss–94. Kirby Plumpton Letters & Pairs (Camden Soc. 5th Ser. 8) (1996): 309 (biog. of Robert Constable).
• Children of Ralph Greystoke, Knt.. by Elizabeth Fitz Hugh.
  • i. ROBERT GREYSTOKE, Knt. [See next].
  • ii. MARGERY GREYSTOKE, married Thomas Gray, Knt. of Heaton (in Norham), Northumberland [see GRAY 11].[Ancestors of John Fenwick]
  • iii. ELIZABETH GREYSTOKE, married (1st) THOMAS SCROPE, Knt., 5th Lord Scrope of Masham [see SCROPE 8]; [Ancestors of Anne Mauleverer] (2nd) GILBERT TALBOT, K.G., of Grafton, Worcestershire [see TALBOT 11].[Ancestors of Thomas Rudyard]

BOOKS

• Surtees Society. 1865. Testamenta Eboracensia: A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York: Illustrative of the History, Manners... Edited by James Raine and John William Clay. Vol. 3. Durham, England, UK: Andrews & Company. Archive.org.
  • “1435, July 1. Dispensation from Eugenius IV., issued at Florence, allowing Ralph, sone of John lord Greystock, and ELIZABETH, DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM LORD FITZHUGH, to marry, although related iii the 4th degree:—
  • “On Nov. sand, 1434, William Ayscough, lawyer and gentleman, Richard Burgh, domicelius, and Richard Sedgwick are examined before the archbishop in the hospital of St, James near Westminster, find testify us follows. Sir Henry Fizherry, knt., was the father of Henry and Joan Fitzhugh; Henry was the father of another Henry, and the grandfather of William, now lord Fltzhugh, the sire of Elizabeth, one of the petitioners who appears in tbe person of her proctor, John Catterick. Or other side, it is shown that Joan daughter of Sir Henry Fizherry knt, married William baron of Grey stock, the father of Ralph, the father of John, the father of Ralph the petitioner. The claim was allowed, Ibid. 168-9.”
• Surtees Society. 1868. Testamenta Eboracensia: A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York: Illustrative of the History, Manners... Vol. 4 (orig. v.53). Edited by James Raine and John William Clay. Vol. 3. Durham, England, UK: Andrews & Company. Babel.HathiTrust.
  • “XIV. THE WILL OF SIR RALPH GREYSTOCK KNT., BARON OF GREYSTOCK”…
    • Will is transcribed in original Latin (no translation). Includes extensive footnotes in English.
• Richardson, Douglas. 2011. “Greystoke.” In Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study In Colonial and Medieval Families, edited by Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd ed., 282–85. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Douglas Richardson. Google Books.
  • 14. THOMAS GRAY, Knt., of Wark. Heaton (in Norham), etc. Northumberland. Captain of Norham Castle, son and heir, born about 1456 (aged 8 in 1464). He married MARGERY GREYSTOKE, daughter of Ralph Greystoke, Knt. 5th Lord Greystoke, of Greystoke, Coumberland (descendant of King Edward III) by Elizabeth (descendant of King Johm), daughter of William Fitz Hugh, Knt., 4th Lord Fitz Hugh, of Ravenworth, Yorkshire (descendant of King John) [see GREYSTOKE 11 for her ancestry].
• Whellan, William. 1860. The History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, with Furness and Cartmel, in Lancashire, Comprising Their Ancient and Modern History, a General View of Their Physical Character, Trade, Commerce, Manufactures, Agricultura. London: Whittaker & Company. Archive.org.

LINKS

• Our Royal Titled Noble and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins: Sir Ralph Greystoke, 7th Lord Greystoke, Lord FitzWilliam (Last Edited: 4 Apr 2020).
• WIKITREE: Ralph Greystoke (abt. 1408 - abt. 1487).
• The Peerage: Database Online: Ralph de Greystoke, 5th Lord Greystoke (Last Edited 22 Apr 2019]
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dacre,_2nd_Baron_Dacre
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/GREYSTOKE.htm#Ralph GREYSTOKE (7° B. Greystoke of Greystoke)
• en.Wikipedia: Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre.
• en.Wikipedia: John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury
• en.Wikipedia: Gilbert Talbot (soldier).
• en.Wikipedia: Baron Greystoke.
• History of Parliament Online: Morpeth: Borough.
• Wheelan, William. 1860. The History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, with Furness and Cartmel, in Lancashire, Comprising Their Ancient and Modern History, a General View of Their Physical Character, Trade, Commerce, Manufactures, Agricultural Condition, Statistics, Etc., Etc. London: Whittaker and Company. Archive.org.
• Cockayne and others. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, 2nd Edition, Vol. 6, page 197-199. Page viewer 209-211. Book link: http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/483528 Page link: < FamilySearch >
• Flower, William. The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564. Page 84 "Greystock" < Archive.Org > An Elizabethan hand has added, " Maryed to his 2 wyff Elsabeth, doughter of John Tyrrell, and had issu Anne that dyed yong."