Ranulf de Greystoke Lord of Greystoke

   Another name for Ranulf was Ranuph Fitz Walter Lord of Greystoke.¹⁶⁰

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, son of Walter de Greystoke, married Amabel. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹⁶⁴
Ranulf, son of Walter, was assed to a 'donum' in the Pipe Roll of Northumberland for the family barony in Cumberland. In the 'barons' certificates' of 1166, it is declared that Ranulf's ancestors held their fees from Henry I, and that Ranulf himself held 3 1/3 kinights' fees, of which Ernald de Mondevill did the service of one knight [Liber Rubeus, i. 434; Liber Niger, i. 326]. Ranulf, son of Walter, gave a carucate of land in Stinton to the priory of Carlisle [Monasticon, vi. 144] and lands in Yorkshire to the abbey of Rievaulx. According to Dodsworth, the name of Ranulf's wife was Amabel [Chartulary of Rievaulx, p. 49, ed. Atkinsons]. This agrees with the abstracts of St. George's MS., where it is stated that Ranulf, son of Walter received Conniscliffe in dowry with Amabel, and that he gave Mikelton in free marriage with Alice his daughter [Memorials of the Howards, app. v.E]

~The Ancestor, Vol. VI, p. 125

• Background Information. ⁹¹⁰
Water, son of Ivo, the heir of the Greystoke family, apparently only survived until 1162 [Pipe Roll, 9 Henry II, p. 11; Early Yorkshire Charters, ed. Farrer, Vol. II, p. 507]. Walter's son and the next lord of Greystoke was named Ranulf. Walter's wife and Ranulf's mother was named Beatrice [Early Yorks. Charters, ed. Farrer, Vol. II, p. 515]. Ranulf married Amabel, who after his death espoused Roger Fizt Hugh (de Balliol) Lord of Copen, Northumberland [Rot. Litt. Claus., Rec. Com., Vol. I. p. 174; Chartul. Brikburn, pp. 159-60]

Ranulf, Lord of Greystoke, left an heir William (d. 1209) who married Helewise de Stuteville, the relict of William de Lancaster II and of Hugh de Morville, by whom he became the father of Thomas, the ancestor of the Lords of Greystoke [The Ancestor, vol. VI, pp. 121-34; Clay, Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties, pp. 94-5] Ranulf's daughter Alice married Henry Fitz Hervey, lord of Ravensorth, Yorkshire [Gale, Reg. hon. de Richmund, Appendix, pp. 57-8], and had inter alia a daughter, Ada, the wife of Michael III le Fleming of Aldingham.

The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, p. 77-78 & footnote 113 p. 77

Ranulf married Amabel.⁹¹⁰