Person Sheet


Name *Mary DE MERLAY, 24G Grandmother
Father *Roger DE MERLAY
Spouses:
1 *William GREYSTOKE, 24G Grandfather
Father *Thomas de GREYSTOKE (?-1246)
Mother *Christian VITERIPONT
Children: *Ralph
Notes for *Mary DE MERLAY
142 Mary de Merlay, eldest daughter and co-heir, was
twenty-four at the time of her father's death and also then
married. In the partition of her father's estate in 1271
Morpeth Castle and Manor were allotted to her and her
husband, but in 1286 Robert de Somerville and his wife, her
sister Isabel, entered a suit against her and her husband
for her purparity of Morpeth, to which she answered in court
that in the partition of the estate, which had been made,
the Manor of Witton and the Woods of Schuldeten and East
Park had been allotted to them and were of greater value
than the other property. She married 1st Walter de Bolbec
and 2nd William, Lord Greystoke. They had Thomas, 1st Lord
Greystoke, d. s. p., John 2nd Lord, d. s. p., and Ralph, 3rd
Lord Greystoke.
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