Biography of William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke 1321-1359

On 6th January 1321 William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke was born to [his father] Ralph Greystoke 1st Baron Greystoke and [his mother] Alice Audley Baroness Greystoke and Neville at Grimthorpe.

On 15th May 1321 [his father] Ralph Greystoke 1st Baron Greystoke was created 1st Baron Greystoke.

Before 14th July 1323 [his father] Ralph Greystoke 1st Baron Greystoke and [his mother] Alice Audley Baroness Greystoke and Neville were married. She by marriage Baroness Greystoke.

On 14th July 1323 [his father] Ralph Greystoke 1st Baron Greystoke died at Gateshead, County Durham. Possibly poisoned by a rebel knight. He was buried at Newminster Abbey, Northumberland. William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke succeeded 2nd Baron Greystoke.

After 14th July 1323 William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke and Lucy de Lucy Baroness Greystoke were married. She by marriage Baroness Greystoke.

After 14th July 1323 William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke became a ward of [his step-father] Ralph Neville 2nd Baron Neville of Raby.

On 14th January 1326 [his step-father] Ralph Neville 2nd Baron Neville of Raby and [his mother] Alice Audley Baroness Greystoke and Neville were married. She by marriage Baroness Neville Raby.

On 3rd February 1343 William Ros 2nd Baron Ros Helmsley died. He was buried at Kirkham Priory North Yorkshire. William Ros 3rd Baron Ros Helmsley succeeded 3rd Baron Ros Helmsley and inherited Belvoir Castle. [his half-sister] Margaret Neville by marriage Baroness Ros Helmsley.

Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke [-1360]. In the same year, the Earl of Lancaster,1 the Barons of Stafford and Greystoke, along with the heirs of the Lords Percy and [his half-brother] Neville, as well as Lord Furnival and Bartholomew de Burghersh, together with many others, crossed over to Gascony around the Feast of All Saints [1st November 1349], to oppose the ravaging campaigns of John of Valois, son of the tyrant of the French, who was heavily harassing that duchy.

Eodem anno comes Lancastrie et barones Staffordie et de Greistoke, item heredes dominorum de Percy et de Neville atque dominus de Fornival et Bartholomeus de Burghasshe, cum multis aliis, circa festum Omnium Sanctorum transfretaverant in Vasconiam, posituri resistenciam debacacioni Iohannis de Valesio, filii tiranni Francorum, qui ducatum illum nimis infestavit.

Note 1. The earl of Lancaster was appointed lieutenant of Poitou on the 18th October 1349. Rymer's Fœdera 3.190. Knighton. William, lord Greystock, succeeded in 1323 and died in 1358. The heirs of Percy and Nevill were Henry, afterwards 3rd lord Percy, 1352-1368, who had fought at Crécy, and was brother-in-law of Lancaster; and John Nevill, who had been present with his father at Nevile's Cross, married Percy's sister, and became 3rd lord Nevill, 1367-1388. Thomas, lord Furnival, had also fought at Crécy, and died about 1364. Both Bartholomew, lord Burghersh, and his son, of the same name, served in this campaign.

Before 18th October 1353 William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke and Joan Fitzhenry Baroness Greystoke were married. She by marriage Baroness Greystoke.

On 18th October 1353 [his son] Ralph Greystoke 3rd Baron Greystoke was born to William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke and [his wife] Joan Fitzhenry Baroness Greystoke at Ravensworth Castle, North Yorkshire. He married 1377 Catherine Clifford Baroness Greystoke, daughter of Roger Clifford 5th Baron Clifford and Maud Beauchamp Baroness Clifford, and had issue.

In 1358 [his brother-in-law] Henry Percy 1st Earl of Northumberland and [his half-sister] Margaret Neville were married.

On 10th July 1359 William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke died at Brancepeth Castle, County Durham. [his son] Ralph Greystoke 3rd Baron Greystoke succeeded 3rd Baron Greystoke.

After 10th July 1359 Matthew Redman and [his former wife] Joan Fitzhenry Baroness Greystoke were married.

Funeral of William Greystoke

After 10th July 1359 William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke was buried at St Andrew's Church, Greystoke during the Funeral of William Greystoke conducted by Bishop Gilbert Welton and attended by Roger Clifford 5th Baron Clifford, Henry Scrope 1st Baron Scrope of Masham and Thomas Musgrave 1st Baron Musgrave.

After 10th July 1359. Monument to William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke in St Andrew's Church, Greystoke. Camail and Jupon Period. On his head he wears the bascinet with a camail. The jupon under which his coat of chain mail may be seen. His sword belt is low on his jupon, horizontal.

On 1st September 1403 [his former wife] Joan Fitzhenry Baroness Greystoke died.

[his daughter] Alice Greystoke Baroness Harington was born to William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke and Joan Fitzhenry Baroness Greystoke. She married 1376 Robert Harrington 3rd Baron Harington, son of John Harrington 2nd Baron Harington and Joan Bermingham.

[his son] Robert Greystoke was born to William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke and Joan Fitzhenry Baroness Greystoke.

[his son] William Greystoke was born to William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke and Joan Fitzhenry Baroness Greystoke.