Yves de Greystoke Lord of Greystoke

   Another name for Yves was Ivo Fitz Forne.¹⁶⁰

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 41:24, father of Alice de Greystoke, 265A:24, also called Ives or Yves, lord of Greystroke, m. Agnes, daughter of Walter with unknown surname ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹⁶⁴
Ivo or Yves, took seizin of his father, Phorne's lands in 1130. Ives, Ivo or Yves, was the second lord of Greystoke, with Agnes, his wife and Walter, her father, made a grant of two homesteads in perpetual alms to the priory of Carlisle, which was afterwards confirmed by Ranulf, son of Walter his grandson [Monasticon, vi. 144]. Yves was alive in 1161, when he was credited with a remission of two marks by the sheriff of Northumberland by order of the Chancellor. Yves has a sister named Eda or Edith. Edith daughter of Forne, was a woman of fame and highly esteemed by Henry I, and was a royal concubine. Yves, son of Forne, had four sons, Walter, Robert, Adam and William.

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

• Background Information. ⁹¹⁰
Amongst the unpublished documents at Rydal Hall is a charter of circa 1180, by which Edgar (of Dunbar) and his wife Alice, daughter of Ivo de Greystoke, settled upon Agnes their daughter, in free marriage with Anselm, son of Michael de Furness, half their land of "Euenwit (Yanwath), Westmorland (Rydal MSS.). By an earlier charter of 1156-62, Walter, son of Ivo de Greystoke confirmed to Alice his sister on her marriage to Edgar son of Earl Gospatric, "Euenwit" and "Chonoc Salchild" (Knock Salcock), co. WEstmorland, as well as oher property in Cumberland, Durham and Yorkshire [Newminster Chartulary, Surtees Soc. p. 117]. Alice was the sister of Walter and daughter of Ivo, lords of Greystoke in Cumberland; while her husband, Edgar, was the son of Gospatric II, Earl of Dunbar in Scotland, the great-great-nephew of the "gracious" King Duncan of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, p. 74

The Greystokes, through whom Anselm le Fleming (de Furness) and his wife succeeded to half of Westmorland manor of Yawath, long reminaed among the great families of the Border. Unlike the Flemings and d'Eyncourts, they were native English bood. The founder of this family was Forne, son of Sigulf, being by descent lord of Greystoke, co. Cumberland, one of those northern baronies that had continued after the Norman invasion to be held by its original pre-Conquest tenure. Forne son of Sigulf was a trusted minister of the Crown in Yorkshire during the second part of the reign of Henry I [Early Yorks. Charters, ed. Farrer, Vol. II, pp.505-506] Edith, Forne's daughter, is memorable as having been one of King Henry's mistresses and the mother by him of Robert fitz Roy.

The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, p. 75

Yves married Agnes Fitz Walter ¹⁶⁰.^,964