Ralph de Greystoke, 3rd Baron Greystoke

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Arms of Greystoke: Barry argent and azure three chaplets of roses gules
Ruins of Ravensworth Castle. Ralph de Greystoke was born here in 1353.[1]
Ruins of Dunbar Castle where Ralph de Greystoke was held prisoner in 1384.[2]

Ralph de Greystoke,

3rd Baron Greystoke, (18 October 1353 – 6 April 1418) was an English peer and landowner.[1]

Life

Greystoke was the son of

Roger de Clifford, 5th Baron de Clifford.[4]

He was summoned to Parliament between 28 November 1375 and 5 October 1417,[5] and, in the 1370s and 1380s, served as a warden of the Scottish Marches.[1]

In 1384, he led an

Battle of Humbleton Hill in Northumberland.[8]

In the 1390s, "disillusioned" with the reign of

John of Gaunt and grandson of Edward III.[1] Greystoke brought his own men to join those of the exile at Doncaster in 1399 and, after Richard II was deposed, with other northern English lords he remained loyal to Bolingbroke, who succeeded to the crown as Henry IV.[9]

Personal

Greystoke married Katherine, the daughter of his former guardian

John de Welles, 5th Baron Welles.[7]

They had 11 children according to GENI: Maud de Greystoke, Lady Gainsby; John de Greystoke, 4th Baron Greystoke; Anna de Greystoke; Thomas de Greystoke; Henry de Greystoke; Catharine Greystoke; William Greystoke; Alionora de Greystoke; Joan Bowes; Elizabeth de Greystoke and Ralph de Greystoke.

Geni - Ralph de Greystoke (1353-1418)- Ravensworth

Brother of Alice de Greystoke, Lady Harrington; William de Greystoke; Robert de Greystoke and John Greystoke

Greystoke died on 6 April 1418.

messuages, or "dwelling-houses", and land holdings in Westmorland, Northumberland, and Yorkshire, as well as the manors and castles of Greystoke and Morpeth.[10]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54524
    . Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-903903-16-5
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  3. ^ John Burke (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. England. p. 244.
  4. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5660
    . Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  5. ^ a b John Burke (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. England. p. 245.
  6. ^ D. Laing (ed.), Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, 3 vols (William Paterson, Edinburgh 1872-1879), III (The Historians of Scotland, Vol. IX), pp. 19-20 (Book IX, Chapter 5).
  7. ^ a b c d Samuel Jefferson (1840). The history and antiquities of Leath Ward: in the county of Cumberland: with biographical notices and memoirs. S. Jefferson. pp. 342–343.
  8. ISBN 978-1-4269-0769-2
    .
  9. ISBN 978-1-903153-12-3
    .
  10. ISBN 978-0-85115-899-0
    .
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Baron Greystock

1359–1418 		Succeeded by
John de Greystoke
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