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Birth:          15 Aug 1299 Greystoke, Cumberland, England
Death:          14 Jul 1323 Gateshead, Durham, England
Burial:         Newminster Abbey, Northumberland, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_de_Greystoke,_1st_Baron_Greystoke
Ralph de Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke, (15 August 1299–14 July 1323) was an 
English peer and landowner.[2]

Life[edit]

Greystoke was the son of Robert fitz Ralph, the second son of Ralph Fitzwilliam.[3] 
William, Robert's elder brother, predeceased their father, and Robert succeeded as 
Ralph Fitzwilliam's heir, when Fitzwilliam died between November 1316 and February 
1317.[3]

Little is known of Ralph de Greystoke's life.[2] On 15 May 1321, he was summoned to 
parliament,[2][4] taking the surname of his paternal great-grandmother (Ralph 
Fitzwilliam's mother),[3] and became the 1st Baron Greystoke.[2] In March 1322, he 
fought in the Battle of Boroughbridge, on the side of Edward II, against Thomas, 2nd 
Earl of Lancaster.[2] He was also 'a principal' in the arrest of Sir Gilbert de Middleton 
for treason, at Mitford Castle, in Northumberland.[5]

He obtained dispensation from Pope John XXII to marry Alice Audley (b. 1300 d. 
1358), daughter of Hugh Audley 1st lord Audley of Stratton Audley & Isolt de 
Mortimer/Iseult de Mortimer,[2] by whom he was related 'within the third and fourth 
degrees' of consanguinity.[5] His son and heir, William Greystoke, was born at the 
family home in Grimthorpe, on 6 January 1321.[2] Ralph de Greystoke died, of a 
possible poisoning arranged by Sir Gilbert de Middleton,[5] on 14 July 1323, at 
Gateshead, County Durham.[2] He was buried at Newminster Abbey, Northumberland.
[1]

Greystoke's widow, Alice, remarried to Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby, who 
held guardianship of the Greystoke estates for William, Ralph Greystoke's heir, who 
was a child when his father died.[6]

Parents
FITZ RALPH Robert (1274 - 1317)
DE NEVILLE Elizabeth (1274 - 17 Nov 1346)

Siblings
FITZ ROBERT [CHG TO DE GREYSTOKE] Ralph (15 Aug 1299 - 14 Jul 1323)

Marriage To AUDLEY Alice (1300 - 1358)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
AUDLEY Hugh (ABT 1267 - ABT 1326)
DE MORTIMER Isolde (Iseude) (Iswolde) (ABT 1260 - AFT 1335)

Children by AUDLEY Alice 1300 - 1358
DE GREYSTOKE William Fitz Ralph (6 Jan 1321 - 20 Jul 1359)

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