Coats of Arms have nothing to do with clothing
While tracing along the tree of my ancestors, I ran across one Sir John de Greystoke, listed in the genealogy as the third baron of Greystoke, but elsewhere online he is generally referred to as the fourth baron of Greystoke. Now the name Greystoke may strike you as familiar. Hmm, where have I heard that before? Oh, yes. In the Tarzan story. Tarzan is a Greystoke in a 1984 film about the famous "apeman" and is referred to as the sixth earl of Greystoke. Whether this has any ties at all to the real Greystokes matters not except that if Tarzan really were part of the Greystoke family of Cumberland, England, from which my lineage descends, then he would have attained a higher rank in the peerage than my ancestor, given that earls rank higher than barons. In a post to come in a couple of weeks, I'll discuss the peerage system in England, not just because of John. No, in the family tree I'm working with lords and ladies, earls and countesses, and other assorted peers appe