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 222 BALLIOL. BALLIOL,(*) or BALIOL (of By well). Qy. Baron by t. Edward de Balliol, King of Scotland, feudal Baron Writ ?( b ) °^ By-well, co. Northumberland, and of Barnard's Castle, co. Durham, s and h. of John Balliol,(°) Kino or Scotland (1292-96), feudal Baron' of 1. 1348-9. Bywell, &c, by Isabel, da. of John (V aiiknnf.), J'.a It I. OF SriiREY, sue. his father, as to his English estates, in 1314, and, by the English interest, was crowned Kino OF Scotland 24 Sep. 1332, but, haying fled from that Kingdom in the Dec. following, was six years afterwards sum. to the English Pari, on 1 Jan. and again on 10 March (1348-9), 22 Ed. Ill, the writs, in both instances, commencing with these words — " Rex Magnifieo Prineipi et tideli suo Edwardo tie Balliolo, Regi Scotia;, consanguineo suo charissimo, sahitem." He d. s.p. in 1303, when any Peerage dignity that might have been cr. by these summons became extinct.^) BALLIOL, or BALIOL (of Cavers). Baron by 1. Sir Alexander de Balliol(o) of Cavers, co. Roxburgh, Writ. °f Sir Henry de Balliol, of the same by I.ora, one of the three daughters and coheirs of William DP. Valoicins,(') was a younger hr. of I. 1300. Guy de Balhol 'standard bearer to de Montfort at the battle of Evesham and there slain, in 1265), was in possession of his paternal estate before 6 April 1272, and was sometime (between 1287 and 1294) Chamberlain of Scotland. He fought in Flanders in 1297, at Falkirk in 1298, and at Carlaverock in 1300. Having »i. about 1270, Isabel, Dow. Countess ok Athole [S.], sister and coheir of Richard Chjlham, alias Dovr.it, da. of Richard Cuiliiam by Roese, da. and h. of Fulbert DE DovEti, all of Chilharn, co. Kent, he acquired that Lordship in her right and was sum. to the English Pari, as a Baron (LORD BALLIOL) from 20 Sep. (1300), 2S Ed. I, to 22 Feb. (1306-7), 35 Ed. I. His wife d. 1292 and was bur. in Canterbury ( a ) There are several localities in Normandy called Bailleul ; that which claims to be the birthplace of this race f sans bcaucoup it fundement, however, according to the /tin. de la Normaadie) is Bailleul-en-Gouffern in the arrtmdissement of Argentan, called in the charters Balliolvm. See Lower's " Dictionary of Family Names." It is not im- probable that the armorial bearings of this family, vi:. "an orle," indicate a territorial connection with the family of Henry de Essex, a feudal Baron. Matches are mentioned which seem to connect the families, but the point is involved in great confusion. Ex inform. H. Cough. ( b ) " It seems clear that the writ of 22 Ed. Ill must be regarded as having created a Barony and that the title of this Barony is Balliol." Ex inform. H. Cough. ( c ) By the death of his two elder brothers (of whom Hugh d. s.p. before 10 April 1271, and Alexander before 13 Nov. 1278) he became head of the great house of Balliol, being aged forty on 29 Nov. 1280 and at that time 1 st surv. son of another John de Balliol (sometime Regent of Scotland), who with Dervorgilda his wife was, in 1263, founder of Balliol College, Oxford. In right of the descent of the said Dervorgilda, his mother, from David I [S.] this John Balliol was crowned King of Scotland at Scone on 30 Nov. 1292, but his reign terminated in July 1296, and hed. late in 1314. See Hades' " Annals of Scotland," 3rd edit., vol. i, p. 293, and Foal., iii, 566. ( d ) Of his four sisters who became his coheirs a good account is given in Sinclair's " Dissertation upon Heirs Male, &c." (1837), pp. 140-147. It is not improbable that the " heir of line " to David I [S.] will be found in the House of Bourbon, who through the families of St. Pol, de Couci and de Lindsay, descend from the second sister, Ada, who m. William de Lindsay. (°) An able paper by J. A. C. Vincent in " the Genealogist " (for Jan. 18S4), vol. vi, p. 1, fully proves the parentage of this Alexander, ami that the commonly received notion that he was a younger Dr. of John Balliol, King of Scotland, is erroneous. See also Suttees' " Durham," iv, p. 58, note "f," where (as also in Hodgson's "Northum- berland," vol. ii, part 2, p. 42) an elaborate pedigree of Balliol will be found, ( r ) A pedigree shewing the extinction of the Barony of Valoigns is contributed by James Greeustreet to " N. and Q.," 6th s., v, 142. Sec also p. 290 of the same vol. for an amplification thereof by J. A. C. Vincent, as also pp. 61 and 389 of the same.