Guy de Balliol
Guy de Balliol († between 1130 and 1133) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. He is considered to be the founder of the Balliol family in England .
Guy de Balliol named himself after Bailleul-en-Vimeu near Abbeville in Picardy in France . This rule was in the county of Ponthieu and did not belong to the Duchy of Normandy . Guy supported William II , King of England, when he led campaigns against his brother, Duke Robert Curthose , on the eastern border of Normandy in 1091 and 1094 . Presumably in gratitude, the king enfeoffed him with possessions in Yorkshire and other parts of northern England in the 1090s . These had previously belonged to Robert de Montbray , whose Earldom Northumbria had been declared forfeited after a failed rebellion. Little is known about the subsequent life of Guy de Balliol. He died between 1130 and 1133, his heir became his nephew Bernard de Balliol .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.
- ^ Frank Barlow: William Rufus . University of California Press, Berkeley 1983, ISBN 0-520-04936-5 , p. 172.
- ^ GP Stell: Balliol, Bernard de (d.1154x62). 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
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| SURNAME | De Balliol, Guy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Anglo-Norman nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 11th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1130 and 1133 |