Coat of arms of Ralph Fitzwilliam, Lord of Greystoke at the Battle of Falkirk, Barry argent and azure three chaplets of roses gules.
Ralph Fitzwilliam (c. 1256 – 11 February 1317), or Ralph, son of William de Grimthorpe, Lord of Greystoke, was a feudal baron with extensive landholdings in the North of England, representative of a manorial lordship seated where Grimthorpe Hill rises to commanding views a mile to the north of Pocklington in the Yorkshire Wolds. He gave sustained military service and leadership through the Scottish and Welsh campaigns of Edward I and was summoned to parliament from 1295 to 1315. His marriage in c. 1282 brought him other manors including Morpeth in Northumberland and its appurtenances. In 1297 he was enfeoffed as tenant-in-chief (feudal lord) of the entire barony of Greystoke, seated at Greystoke in Cumberland but with Yorkshire estates, through his matrilineal Greystok descent. He entered upon these in his own right in 1306. Having served in the retinue of Aymer de Valence, during the first decade of Edward II's reign he remained dependable as a military leader and royal lieutenant in the defence administration of the northern counties and Scottish marches. His descendants adopted the Greystoke name, and their inheritance continued in the male line until the end of the 15th century.[1][2]
^T.F. Tout, revised J.S. Hamilton, 'Fitzwilliam, Sir Ralph (c. 1256–1316/17)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP 2004).
^'Pedigree of Merlay, Greystock, Dacre and Howard, Barons of Morpeth', in J. Hodges, A History of Northumberland, in three parts, Part 2, Volume 2 (Author, Newcastle 1832), pp. 373-83 (Google).
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