William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke 1321-1359

On 6th January 1321 William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke was born to Ralph Greystoke 1st Baron Greystoke [aged 21] and Alice Audley Baroness Greystoke and Neville [aged 17] at Grimthorpe. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

On 15th May 1321 [his father] Ralph Greystoke 1st Baron Greystoke [aged 21] was created 1st Baron Greystoke.

Before 14th July 1323 [his father] Ralph Greystoke 1st Baron Greystoke [aged 23] and [his mother] Alice Audley Baroness Greystoke and Neville [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Baroness Greystoke.

On 14th July 1323 [his father] Ralph Greystoke 1st Baron Greystoke [aged 23] died at Gateshead, County Durham. Possibly poisoned by a rebel knight. He was buried at Newminster Abbey, Northumberland [Map]. His son William [aged 2] succeeded 2nd Baron Greystoke.

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

After 14th July 1323 William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke [aged 2] became a ward of [his step-father] Ralph Neville 2nd Baron Neville of Raby [aged 32].

On 14th January 1326 [his step-father] Ralph Neville 2nd Baron Neville of Raby [aged 35] and [his mother] Alice Audley Baroness Greystoke and Neville [aged 22] were married. She by marriage Baroness Neville Raby. They were sixth cousins. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

On 3rd February 1343 William Ros 2nd Baron Ros Helmsley [aged 58] died. He was buried at Kirkham Priory North Yorkshire [Map]. His son William [aged 13] succeeded 3rd Baron Ros Helmsley and inherited Belvoir Castle [Map]. [his half-sister] Margaret Neville [aged 13] by marriage Baroness Ros Helmsley.

Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. In the same year, the Earl of Lancaster,¹ the Barons of Stafford [aged 48] and Greystoke [aged 28], along with the heirs of the Lords Percy [aged 28] and [his half-brother] Neville [aged 12], as well as Lord Furnival and Bartholomew de Burghersh [aged 62], 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 [aged 21], of the same name, served in this campaign.

Before 18th October 1353 William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke [aged 32] and Joan Fitzhenry Baroness Greystoke [aged 20] 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 [aged 32] and [his wife] Joan Fitzhenry Baroness Greystoke [aged 20] at Ravensworth Castle, North Yorkshire [Map]. He married 1377 his third cousin 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 [aged 16] and [his half-sister] Margaret Neville [aged 28] were married. They were third cousin twice removed. He a great x 2 grandson of King Henry III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

On 10th July 1359 William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke [aged 38] died at Brancepeth Castle, County Durham [Map]. His son Ralph [aged 5] succeeded 3rd Baron Greystoke.

After 10th July 1359 Matthew Redman [aged 31] and [his former wife] Joan Fitzhenry Baroness Greystoke [aged 26] were married.

After 10th July 1359. Monument to William Greystoke 2nd Baron Greystoke [deceased] in St Andrew's Church, Greystoke [Map]. 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 [aged 70] 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.