Lord Ralph de Greystoke

Book: Quoted Matter

• Farrer, William, ed. 1915. “The Fee of Greystoke.” In Early Yorkshire Charters a Collection; Being a Collection of Documents Anterior to the Thirteenth Century Made from the Public Records, Monastic Chartularies, Roger Dodsworth’s Manuscripts and Other Available Sources. Vol. 2. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK: Printed for the Editor, by Ballantyne, Hanson & Company. Archive.org.
  • According to the chartulary of Rievaulx, Walter, son of Ivo, gave ½ carucate in Folkton to the monks of that house in the year 1158.[op. cit. 261] In 1161 William, son of Ivo, contributed 10 marks towards the levy of that year,[ib. 8 Hen. II, #1] probably in respect of his brother Walter’s fee. The entries in the roll of 1162 in connexion with the levy for the army in that year are instructive. In Northumberland the sheriff accounted for 1 mark for the fee of Walter, son of Ivo,[ib., 8 Hen. II, 11. 10] doubtless that in Coniscliffe and Coquetdale; and the sheriff of York accounted for 1 mark from the fee of Ranulf, son of Walter (son of Ivo), and showed the king's writ excusing 1 mark to Henry de Oilli,[ib.] in respect no doubt of a knight's fee which he held in Huggateand Millington of the fee of the same Ranulf. This seems to indicate that Walter died during the fiscal year, and that the sheriff of Northumberland had neglected to alter his account in conformity with the event. At the death of Henry de Oilli in 1164 the kinght's fee which he had held of the fee of Greystoke passed to Arnald de Mandevill, who held it in 1166.[Red Bk., 434.] Ranulf, son of Walter, accounted in 1168 for 44s. 5d. for the levy due from his 3 1/3 fees to the aid to marry the king's daughter.[Pipe R., 14 Hen. II, 89.] He paid scutage on the same number of fees in 1172. He was amerced li100 in 1180 for leaving the realm without the king's licence and for a surety in default [Pipe R., 26 Hen. II, 73.] Next year he made an agreement in Yorkshire with Robert, son of Brunne, [ib., 27 Hen. II, 44.] and in 1182 successfully defended a claim brought by Richard Malebisse to 6 carucates in Thornton-le-Moor.[ib., 28 Hen. II, 45.] Geoffrey de Mandevill now held Huggate as successor to Arnald his father, to whose land he had succeeded in January, 1179. In 1185 licence was granted for respective agreements between Ranulf, son of Walter and (a) William son of Peter, (b) Herbert son of Anketill, and (c) Hugh son of Eissolf. [Pipe R., 31 Hen. II, 72, 73, 187.] In Cumberland Henry, son of Robert, recovered his right to the advowson of the church of Dacre against Ranulf, son of Walter.[V.C.H. Cumb., i, 358.] Ranulf died in or about the year 1190, at which time a debt of 2 1/2 marks for the scutage of Wales was recorded against him and repeated yearly until 1198, when William de Stutevill paid it.[Pipe R., 10 Ric. I.] Amabel, his relict, married Roger, son of Hugh, brother and heir of John son of Hugh, lord of Cowpen,3 and had Coniscliffe in dower. She was living in 1214, when she made fine with the king, as relict of Roger son of Hugh, not to be compelled to marry. [R. Litt. Clans., i, 174.]
  • It is possible that Beatrice, wife of Walter, and mother of Ranulf, may have been a kinswoman of Scolland, lord of Bedale. Ranulf was at any rate possessed of all Mickleton with the demesne and the service of Guy de Boveincurt for certain lands there and in Northumberland, and of the service of Lonton and Thringarth, and also of the forest or free chase of Lune. These he gave to Henry, son of Hervey, lord of Ravensworth, in marriage with Alice his daughter. [Gale, Reg. Hon. de Richmund, app., 58.] It is possible, however, that Alice was heir of an unrecorded wife of Ranulf, who may have brought these lands to him in marriage. King John in 1201 confirmed to Henry, son of Hervey, inter alia all the land towards the valley of Lune being of the grant and quit-claim of Robert de Rokeby and Agnes his wife, also a parcel of 7 acres of land lying between Lonton and Crosthwaite of their gift, and right of entry and egress for Henry's sheep to and from the common pasture there. [R. Chart., 883.] Thus it appears that the Greystokes had considerable possessions in Upper Teesdale in the 12th century.
  • William, son and heir of Ranulf, may have been in ward to William de Stutevill for a few years before 1194, when he had acquittance of 66s. 8d. of scutage, having served in person with his knights in the army in Normandy.[Pipe R., 6 Ric.]

Book

• Jamroziak, Emilia. 2005. Rievaulx Abbey and Its Social Context, 1132-1300: Memory, Locality, and Networks. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. WorldCat.org.—See p. 84.

LINKS

• Wikitree: Ranulph Greystoke (abt. 1130 - abt. 1190)
• Rootsweb: Past and Present: de Greystoke
• TudorPlace.com: (Ranulf) De GREYSTOKE