Eustace de Balliol

Coat of arms of Eustace de Balliol

Eustace de Balliol (also Eustace de Helicourt ) († around 1209) was an Anglo- Norman nobleman.

Eustace came from a branch of the Balliol family , which named itself after Ballieul-en-Vimeu in Picardy in northern France. He was a son of Hugh de Balliol , a younger brother of Bernard de Balliol senior . After his father's death around 1181, Eustace inherited his estate in France and named himself after his estate Hélicourt . After the childless death of his cousin Bernard de Balliol junior around 1190, he inherited his property. The French family estates belonged to this inheritance, but especially its northern English possessions around Barnard Castle in County Durham . Then he took the name Balliol.

Eustace de Balliol was married twice. His first marriage was to Ada de Fountain . After her death in England after 1190 he married Petronella , the widow of Robert FitzPeter . He had at least four sons:

Hugh de Balliol († 1229)
Ingram (also Ingelram) de Balliol († around 1244)
Bernard de Balliol
Henry de Balliol († 1246)

His main heir became his eldest son, Hugh. His second son Ingram acquired the Scottish baronies Inverkeilor in Angus and Urr in Galloway by marrying a daughter and partial heir of Walter de Berkeley . He founded a branch of the family in Scotland, as did his brother Henry, who acquired Cavers in Scotland through his marriage to Lora de Valognes .

Web links

Eustace de Baliol, Lord of Bywell, on thepeerage.com , accessed July 26, 2020.

Individual evidence

^ 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
^ Geoffrey Stell: The Balliol Family and the Great Cause of 1291-2 . In: KJ Stringer (Ed.): Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland , John Donald Publishers, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-85976-113-4 , p. 154.

personal data
SURNAME	De Balliol, Eustace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	De Helicourt, Eustace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Anglo-Norman nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	around 1209

[1] 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

[2] Geoffrey Stell: The Balliol Family and the Great Cause of 1291-2 . In: KJ Stringer (Ed.): Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland , John Donald Publishers, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-85976-113-4 , p. 154.