• General Notes

  TITLE:  6th Baron GREYSTOKE
  BURIAL: 8 Aug. 1436 Collegiate Church, Greystoke,
                  Northumberland, ENGLAND
  NOTE:
  Sir John de Greystoke, 6th Baron, b. 1389, summoned to parliament from 24 August 1419 to 5 July 1435. This nobleman was constituted, 9th Henry V [1422], governor of Roxborough Castle in Scotland for four years with an allowance of £1,000 per annum in time of peace and £2,000 in time of war. In the 1st Henry VI [1422], he was joined in commission with the bishop of London and others to treat of peace with James, King of Scotland; and was subsequently in a similar commission. In the 13th of the same reign [1435], his lordship was one of the chief commanders sent with the forces to the relief of Berwick, then besieged by the Scots. He m. Elizabeth, eldest dau. and co-heir of Robert Ferrers, of Wemme, by Elizabeth his wife, sole dau. and heir of William Boteler, Lord of Wemme, and had issue, Ralph, his successor, with three other sons, William, Richard, and Thomas, and a dau. Elizabeth, m. to Roger Thornton, whose only child and heiress, Elizabeth Thornton, m. Sir George Lumley, Lord Lumley, from whom the present Earl of Scarborough collaterally descends. Lord Greystock d. in 1436 and was s. by his eldest son, Sir Ralph de Greystock, 7th baron. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd, London, 1883, p. 254, Greystock, Barons Greystock]
  

Details of (Baron) John's family with Elizabeth FERRERS