Bernard de Balliol (nobleman, † around 1190)

Bernard de Balliol (also Bernard de Balliol junior ) († around 1190) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman.

Bernard de Balliol came from the Anglo-Norman family Balliol . He was a younger son of his father of the same name, Bernard de Balliol senior . Probably before 1161 or 1167 at the latest, he inherited the family's estates in northern England after his father and older brothers Ingram and Guy died. When, during the revolt of the sons of King Henry II, the Scottish King William I invaded northern England with an army, Balliol belonged to the English army, which surprised the Scots at Alnwick . In the battle that followed, the Scots suffered a heavy defeat and the Scottish king was captured by the English. Several chroniclers praised Balliol's part in the English victory. William of Newburgh described Balliol as honorable and generous, while Jordan Fantosme called him a trustworthy knight. Even if these were the usual standard formulations at the time, they show that Balliol was evidently a baron with a strong character. Little is known about Balliol's further life. The last time he can be traced was in Dover at the beginning of December 1189 , when he concluded an agreement with Hugh de Puiset , the Bishop of Durham at the court of King Richard I.

Balliol had married Agnes de Picquigny . She probably came from the French noble family Picquigny , whose headquarters Picquigny was not far from Ballieul-en-Vimeu , the ancestral home of the Balliols . It is not known whether she was related to the Pinkeny family, who also came from Picquigny and owned properties in the Northern English Honor of Huntingdon . The marriage remained childless or the children died before Balliol, so that in 1190 his cousin Eustace de Helicourt inherited his possessions.

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• GP Stell: Balliol, Bernard de (dc 1190). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004