men at arms for three months, in penalty for his unlicensed marriage. In June 1316 he was appointed one of the wardens to defend Yorkshire against the Scots. The last writ addressed to him as a commissioner of array was on 15 September 1316. Death and memorial He died therefore at the height of his authority and usefulness, aged about 60, perhaps around All Hallows 1316, certainly before February 1317, when the writ for the first of a series of inquisitions upon his many lands was issued. He is said to have been buried in Neasham Priory, Durham. A monumental effigy discovered in the ruins of that house, and formerly kept in a garden at Hurworth, was recognized by Robert Surtees to be his:"a very gallant monumental effigy of a Baron of Greystoke... The effigy is, as usual, recumbent; the hands elevated and clasped on the breast; the sword hangs from a rich baldric ornamented with quatrefoils, the shield represents a barry coat semée of crosslets [sic], the legs are mutilated but rest on a lion, which seems defending himself against several dogs." The figure is now preserved in Hurworth church (which also has a de Roos effigy): the heraldry shows barry with (not crosslets but) chaplets, for Grimthorpe, afterwards Greystock. Family Fitzwilliam is presumed to have married twice. Nothing is known of the first marriage except that it is likely to have occurred in or a little before 1275, and produced two sons: William fitz Ralph, the elder son, who is reported to have married Catharina, but predeceased his father without offspring. Robert fitz Ralph (born c. 1277), who entered upon his brother's lands in Northumberland in 1297, and succeeded his father. He married Elizabeth Nevill of Scotton, Lincolnshire. He resided in the manor of Butterwick, but died before the end of 1317, when he was buried at Butterwick with a monumental effigy of his own. His widow long survived him, dwelt at Butterwick, and by her will was buried beside him there. Their son and successor was Ralph (son of Robert), 1299–1323, aged 17 in 1317, who became Ralph de Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke, and was buried at Newminster Abbey. In 1281 Ralph Fitzwilliam obtained licence to marry Marjory, daughter and coheiress of Hugh de Bolebec and Margery de Montfichet, and widow of Nicholas Corbet. Marjory died before 1303. The barony remained in the family until 1487, when