The title Baron Greystock (or Greystoke) has been created twice in the

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. It was first created when John de Greystock was summoned to parliament in 1295.

Biography

John son of William de Greystok was summoned to Parliament from 22 to 33 Edward I. In 1296 John's cousin Gilbert Fitzwilliam, descendant of John's aunt Joan de Graystock, died, and Gilbert's younger brother and heir,

Ralph Fitzwilliam Ralph Fitzwilliam (c. 1256 – 11 February 1317), or Ralph, son of William de Grimthorpe, Lord of Greystoke, was a feudal baron with extensive landholdings in the North of England, representative of a manorial lordship seated where Grimthorpe ...

, did homage for Gilbert's lands and entered thereon. In August 1297 John obtained licence to enfeoff Ralph Fitzwilliam with the manor and whole Barony of Greystok, and with other manors and advowsons including his part of

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, in fee simple, upon condition that Ralph should found a college in the church at Greystoke. Ralph, whose family were lords of Grimthorpe in the soke of

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, Yorkshire, was then preparing to go abroad in the King's service, and in April 1298 he in return demised the feudal barony of Greystok and other manors for life to John (who thenceforward held them from Ralph as Ralph's sub-tenant), with reversion to Ralph. In 1300 Ralph made some provision for John's brother William Greystok. Following the death of John de Greystok in 1306, the Barony of Greystok reverted to Ralph FitzWilliam in fulfilment of the arrangements made eight years previously, and Ralph, who was summoned to Parliament from 1295 to 1315, made homage and received royal assent to enter upon the barony in October 1306. In 1315 he founded a

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at the conventual church of

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, under the aegis and seal of

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, for the soul of John de Greystok "quondam baronis de Graistok cognati sui" (i.e., "sometime baron of Graystok, his kinsman"), and for his own soul, the abbey's award to him describing Ralph Fitzwilliam as ''Baro de Graystok'' and bearing his seal. Ralph Fitzwilliam (who married Marjory de Bolebec) died in 1316, and their son Robert FitzRalph (who married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Nevill of Scotton, Lincolnshire) died in the following year, leaving as his heir his son Ralph FitzRobert. This younger Ralph received Parliamentary summons in the name of Ralph de Greystock, and so became the first of the Fitzwilliam (Lords of Grymthorp) lineage to carry the Greystock name and title (1321). The Arms of Greystock as ''Barruly argent and azure, three chaplets of roses gules'' were originally those of de Grymthorp, and as such were borne by Ralph Fitzwilliam at the Siege of Caerlaverock, and serve to identify his tomb effigy rescued from

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, but were retained and quartered with the former Greystock arms by his successors. The Barony went into abeyance in 1569, after it had passed into the

Dacre family Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, every time by writ. History The first creation came in 1321 when Ralph Dacre was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre. He married Margaret, 2nd Baroness Mul ...

in 1487 through the marriage of

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to Elizabeth de Greystoke, 6th Baroness Greystoke.

Barons Greystoke, first creation (1295)

*John de Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke (1264–1306)

Barons Greystoke, second creation (1321)

Ralph de Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke Ralph de Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke, (15 August 1299 – 14 July 1323) was an English peer and landowner. Descent and title Greystoke was the son of Robert fitz Ralph (heir and second son of Ralph Fitzwilliam) and his wife Elizabeth, dau ...

(1299–1323) *

William de Greystoke, 2nd Baron Greystoke William Greystoke, 2nd Baron Greystoke, (6 January 1321 – 10 July 1359) of Greystoke in Cumbria, was an English peer and landowner. Origins Greystoke was the son of Ralph Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke, and his wife Alice, daughter of Hugh ...

(1320–1358) *

Ralph de Greystoke, 3rd Baron Greystoke Ralph de Greystoke, 3rd Baron Greystoke, (18 October 1353 – 6 April 1418) was an English peer and landowner. Life Greystoke was the son of William de Greystoke, 2nd Baron Greystoke, and Joane, daughter of Lord Fitzhugh, his second wife ...

(1352–1417) *

John de Greystoke, 4th Baron Greystoke John Greystoke, 4th Baron Greystoke (''c.'' 1390–1436), son and heir of Ralph Greystoke, 3rd Baron Greystoke, was a member of the northern English nobility in the early fifteenth century. Royal service Born ''c.'' 1390, on his father's death a ...

(1390–1436) *

Ralph de Greystoke, 5th Baron Greystoke Ralph Greystoke, 5th Baron Greystoke (9 September 1406 – 1 June 1487) was a member of the English nobility in the early 15th century, and a protagonist during the Wars of the Roses in the north. By his marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Willia ...

(1414–1487) *Elizabeth de Greystoke, 6th Baroness Greystoke ''

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'' (10 July 1471 – 14 August 1516) * William Dacre, 7th Baron Greystoke (1500–1563) * Thomas Dacre, 8th Baron Greystoke (c. 1526–1566) * George Dacre, 9th Baron Greystoke (1561–1569) (abeyant)

References

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