William 4th Baron de Greystoke , Sir 
William 4th Baron de was born in Grimthorpe, Yorkshire, England. William 4th Baron de's father was Ralph 3rd Baron de Greystoke , Sir and his mother was Alice de Audley. His paternal grandparents were Robert FitzRalph 2nd Baron de Greystoke , Sir and Elizabeth de Neville; his maternal grandparents were Hugh 1st Baron de Audley , of Stratton, Sir and Isolde (Iseude) de Mortimer. He had a half-brother and a half-sister, named John 3rd Baron de and Margaret de. He died on July 10th, 1359 in Brancepeth Castle, Durham, England. He was buried in Greystoke Church, Durham, England.General Notes
BARONY OF GREYSTOKE (II)
WILLIAM (DE GREYSTOKE), LORD GREYSTOKE, and LORD FITZWILLIAM, son and heir, born and baptized at Grimthorpe, 6 January 1320/1. On 1 May 1342 the King took his homage and he had livery of his father's lands. He was about to go to Brittany with William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton, in 1342. In 1344/5 he entailed all, or nearly all, his manors. In 1345 he was about to go to Gascony with Ralph, Baron Stafford. On 24 Jan. 1346/7 the King, took his fealty and he had livery of the lands which Elizabeth late the wife of Robert fitz Ralph, his grandfather, had held in dower of his inheritance, his homage being respited; the King took his homage, 20 August 1347. He was at the siege of Calais in 1347. He was summoned to a great Council, 15 July 1353, and to Parliament from 20 November 1348 to 15 December 1357, by writs directed Willelmo de Creystok' or (on and after 25 November 1350, Willelmo Baroni de Greystok'. In October 1351 he was going beyond seas in the company of Henry, Duke of Lancaster. On 5 October 1353 he had licence to crenellate his dwelling-house of Greystoke. He was appointed a commissioner to treat concerning the release of the King of Scots, 15 October 1353, and again 18 June 1354. On 28 September 1354 he was appointed Captain of Berwick-on-Tweed, as from Michaelmas following, till Michaelmas 1355. On 16 February 1357/8 he was pardoned for having, when Captain, withdrawn fmm the town, without the King's orders, in consequence of which the town was captured by the Scots: because he had left the town only in order to accompany the King in his expedition to France and had served throughout that expedition.
He married, 1stly, Lucy, daughter of Sir Anthony de Lucy, of Cockermouth, Cumberland [LORD Lucy]. She died s.p.m., and was buried in Neasham Priory. He married, 2ndly, about October 1351, Joan, daughter of Sir Henry FITZ HENRY "of Ravensworth," by Joan, sister and coheir of William DE FOURNEUX, of Carlton in Lindrick, Kingston, and Botharnsall, Notts, and Beighton, co. Derby, and younger daughter of Sir Richard DE FOURNEUX, of the same. He died 10 July 1359, at Brancepeth, aged 38 years, and was buried in Greystoke Church. M.I. His widow's dower was ordered to be assigned, 8 Octtober 1359, and on 13 November 1363 she had livery of the knights' fees and advowsons of her dower, which were assigned to her by the King. She married, 2ndly (pardon for marrying without royal licence, 29 April 1366), Sir Anthony de Lucy knight, of Cockermouth, Cumberland [LORD Lucy], who died 19 August or 16 September 1368, in the Holy Land. She married, 3rdly, before 6 May 1378, Sir Matthew REDMAN knight, of Levens, Westmorland, who died about 1390. She died at Clerkenwell, 1 September 1403, and was buried there. [Complete Peerage VI:192-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
Note: My count of the Baronage 4th vs. 2nd is different than CP.
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William de Greystock, 4th baron, b. 1321, summoned to parliament from 20 November, 1348, to 15 December, 1357. This nobleman served in France under the Black Prince. He obtained permission to make a castle of his manor house at Greystock, and was constituted governor of Berwick; but during his governorship, being commanded to attend, personally, King Edward into France, Berwick fell into the possession of the Scots, whereupon the king was much offended; it being clearly proved, however, that Lord Greystock was absent on no other occasion, he obtained his pardon at the request of Queen Philippa. His lordship m. 1st, Lucy de Lucie, dau. of Lord Lucie, from whom he was divorced, without issue. He m. 2ndly, Joane, dau. of Lord Fitz-Hugh, by whom (who m. after his decease, Anthony de Lucie, and Sir Matthew Redman, Knt.), he had issue, Ralph, his successor, William and Robert, and a dau. Alice, m. Sir Robert de Harrington, and d. s. p. He d. 10 July, 1359, and was s. by his eldest son, Ralph de Greystock, 5th baron. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd, London, 1883, p. 254, Greystock, Barons Greystock]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.< 1206 in Grimthorpe, Pocklington, East Ride Yorkshire, England d. in Hotham, East Ride Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1225 in Grimthorpe, Pocklington, East Ride Yorkshire, England d.>Jul 1269 in Hildreskelf, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1243 in Grimthorpe, Pocklington, East Ride Yorkshire, England d.11 FEB 1316/17 in Greystoke, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1190 in Greystoke, Cumberland, England d.1247
- b.~ 1225 in Greystoke, Cumberland, England d.>Jul 1269
- b.~ 1202 in Appleby Castle, Westmorland, England
- b.< 1277 in Grimthorpe, Yorkshire, England d.<15 Apr 1317 in Greystoke, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1250 in England d.< 1281
- b.15 Aug 1299 in Greystoke, Cumberland, England d.14 Jul 1323 in Poisoned at Gateshead, Durham, England
- b.~ 1209 in Brampton, Lincolnshire, England d.1275 in Brampton, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1228 in Brampton, Lincolnshire, England d.16 Nov 1274 in Brampton, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1210 in Holdenby, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1249 in Stainton, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1204 in Burewell, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1230 in Burewell, Lincolnshire, England d.> 1276
- b.~ 1208 in Burewell, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1274 in Stainton, Lincolnshire, England d.17 Nov 1346 in Butterwick, East Ride Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1254 in England
- b.6 JAN 1320/21 in Grimthorpe, Yorkshire, England d.10 Jul 1359 in Brancepeth Castle, Durham, England
- b.~ 1147 in Audley, Staffordshire, England d.> 1203
- b.~ 1175 in Audley, Staffordshire, England d.<19 Nov 1246 in Heleigh Castle, Audley, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1150 in Darlaston, Walsall, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1220 in Heleigh Castle, Audley, Staffordshire, England d.11 Jun 1276 in Broke his neck in Ireland
- b.1155 in Warmingham, Cheshire, England d.> 1210 in Warmingham, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1196 in Mainwaring, Bersted, Sussex, England d.> 1249 in Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1169 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales d. in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1267 in Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England d.BEF MAR 1325/26 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England
- b.< 1173 in England d.7 MAR 1225/26 in Salisbury Castle, Wiltishire, England
- b.~ 1207 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.7 FEB 1249/50 in Slain by Saracens at Battle of Mansura, Nile Delta, Egypt
- b.< 1191 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England d.24 Aug 1261 in Lacock, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1228 in Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England d.<22 Nov 1299
- b.~ 1180 in Brattleby, Lincolnshire, England d.1226
- b.~ 1208 in Brattleby, Lincolnshire, England d.<21 Sep 1252
- b.~ 1176 in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England d.1215 in Brattleby, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1300 in Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England d.12 JAN 1373/74
- b.1190 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.06 Aug 1246 in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1231 in Cwmaron Castle, Radnorshire, Wales d.<30 Oct 1282 in Kingsland, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1207 in Caemarvonshire, Wales d.1251 in Windsor, Berkshire, England
- b.1261 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.17 Jul 1304 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1197 in Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales d.02 May 1230 in Hanged by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales after intrigues w/ his wife
- b.~ 1222 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales d.BEF 23 MAR 1300/01
- b.1194 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.< 1246 in England
- b.~ 1275 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.> 1336
- b.~ 1200 in Shirland, Derbyshire, England d.18 MAR 1265/66
- b.~ 1236 in Shirland, Derbyshire, England d.05 Apr 1308 in Wilton Castle, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1210 in Water Eaton, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1257 in Wilton Castle, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England d.< 1285
- b.~ 1210 in Wilton Castle, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1240 in Wilton Castle, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England d.<21 Nov 1302
- b.1213 in England
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William 4th Baron de and Joan were married in a religious ceremony in October 1351 in 2nd wife. They had a son and a daughter, named Ralph de Greystoke and Alice de.
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Children
Ralph de Greystoke Lord Greystoke
Ralph de Greystoke was born in 1353. He died at the age of 64 in 1417.
Alice de Greystoke
Alice de was born about 1355 in Greystoke, Cumberland, England. She died about 1377 in (dsp).
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