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Name:
Ralph Greystroke
 Relationship to John, 6th Earl of Arundel FitzAlan
Birth:
15 AUG 1299 Greystoke, Cumberland, England
Father:
Mother:
Married:
Alice Audley 25 NOV 1317
Children:
William De Greystoke
Born: 6 JAN 1317/1318 Kirkby, Ravensworth, Yorkshire, Eng
Died: 10 JUL 1359 Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England
William Greystroke
Born: 6 JAN 1320/1321 Grimthorpe, Lincolnshire, ENG
Died: 20 JUL 1359 Castle Bracepeth, Northumberland, ENG
Death:
14 JUL 1332 Gateshead, Durham, England 2 of poisoning aged 32
Remarks:
Ralph de Greystock, b. 1298, which surname he assumed, was summoned to parliament by that designation from 15 May, 1321, to 17 September, 1322. His lordship, by virtue of a special dispensation from the Pope, m. Alice*, dau. of Hugh, Lord Audley, they being within the 3rd and 4th degrees of consanguinity; and had an only son, William. Lord Greystock having been a principal in seizing Sir Gilbert de Middleton in the castle of Mitford for treason, was soon afterward poisoned, which at breakfast, through a contrivance of that person. He was s. by his son, William de Greystock, 4th baron.

* Dugdale, in one place, calls this lady, "Alice de Audeley," dau. of Hugh, Lord Audeley, and in another, "Alice," dau. of Ralph, Lord Nevill. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd, London, 1883, p. 254, Greystock, Barons Greystock][JohnFaye (8 Jun 05).FTW]

Ralph de Greystock, b. 1298, which surname he assumed, was summoned to parliament by that designation from 15 May, 1321, to 17 September, 1322. His lordship, by virtue of a special dispensation from the Pope, m. Alice*, dau. of Hugh, Lord Audley, they being within the 3rd and 4th degrees of consanguinity; and had an only son, William. Lord Greystock having been a principal in seizing Sir Gilbert de Middleton in the castle of Mitford for treason, was soon afterward poisoned, which at breakfast, through a contrivance of that person. He was s. by his son, William de Greystock, 4th baron.

* Dugdale, in one place, calls this lady, "Alice de Audeley," dau. of Hugh, Lord Audeley, and in another, "Alice," dau. of Ralph, Lord Nevill. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd, London, 1883, p. 254, Greystock, Barons Greystock]

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