Forne Greystoke Lord of Greystoke

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 275A:23, Forn, Lord of Greystock, son of Sigulf. ¹⁶⁰

~The Aristocracy of Norman England, p. 119, Forne, son of Sigulf, came from Yorkshire. He was most likely not a Norman, and his daughter Edith was one of Henry I's mistresses. ¹⁹⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹⁶⁴
Forne, son of Sigolf, was granted the barony of Greystoke by Henry I. As Forne, son of Sigulf, he attested the charter which Ranulf Meschin gave in foundation of the priory of Wetheral. Forne, son of Sig, was present at Durham in 1121. He was also in attendance on the court of Notthingham and as Forne, son of Sigulf, witnessed the charter whereby Henry I enfeoffred William son of Ulf, ancestor of the house of Grimthorp, with Thorpe and other possessions in Yorkshire. Forne must have died in 1129 or 1130, for int the later years, Ivo had seizin of his father's lands.

The earliest mention of Forne is when he witnessed King Alexander's foundation charter of the monastery of Scone in 114/15 [Pipe Roll, p.25, ed. Hunter] in the company of Gospatric brother of Dolfin and William the Aetheling of England [Liber de Scon, pp. 1-2; Scottish Collections, 371-373]. Forne appears to have held 3 1/3 knights fee in Yorkshire [Liber Rubeus, i. 434, ed. H. Hall; Liber Niger, i. 326, Ed Hearne] and Ives, his son paid 100s to the sheriff of that county for livery of his father's land [Pipe Roll, p. 25, ed. Hunter].

~The Ancestor, Vol. VI, pp. 123- 124