Ralph de Greystoke, 3rd Baron Greystoke

Ralph de Greystoke, , (18 October 1353 – 6 April 1418) was an English peer and landowner.

Greystoke was the son of William de Greystoke, 2nd Baron Greystoke, and Joane, daughter of Lord Fitzhugh, his second wife. He was born on 18 October 1353 at Ravensworth Castle, North Yorkshire, the home of his maternal uncle Henry. As he was still a child when his father died, his estates were placed under the guardianship of Roger de Clifford, 5th Baron de Clifford.

He was summoned to Parliament between 28 November 1375 and 5 October 1417, and, in the 1370s and 1380s, served as a warden of the Scottish Marches.

In 1384, he led an English force that was defeated by the Scots, under the command of George I, Earl of March, while they were travelling to Roxburgh. Greystoke was captured and taken to Dunbar Castle, where he was provided with a meal in the great hall, served upon his own dining-ware, which had been seized from his baggage train along with hangings that now decorated the walls of the great hall. Greystoke's ransom was 3,000 marks, and his younger brother William was his hostage in the exchange. While at Dunbar, William took ill with fever and died. William was buried at the castle, but two years later his remains were moved to Newminster Abbey in Northumberland, where his grandfather Ralph de Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke, was buried. Greystoke returned to fight the Scots in 1402 at the Battle of Humbleton Hill in Northumberland.

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