John de Balliol

- Bef 1268

• Name	John de Balliol  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 27 Oct 1268  [2, 3]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Ada de Balliol   d. 29 Jul 1251, Stokesley, Yorkshire, England ▻ John fitz Robert + 2. John de Balliol   d. Bef 27 Oct 1268 ▻ Devorguille of Galloway ,  m. 1233
  Person ID	I17373	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	Hugh de Balliol,   b. of Barnard Castle, Durham, England d. Aft 1217
  Mother	Cecily de Fontaines
  Family ID	F4088	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Devorguille of Galloway   d. 28 Jan 1290
  Marriage	1233  [2, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Eleanor de Balliol + 2. Cecily de Balliol   d. Bef 1273
  Family ID	F10792	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Father of John II de Balliol, king of Scotland from 1292 to 1296. From Wikipedia: [He] was a leading figure of Scottish and Anglo-Norman life. [...] It is believed that he was educated at Durham School in the city of Durham. In 1223, Lord John married Dervorguilla of Galloway, the daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway and Margaret of Huntingdon. By the mid-thirteenth century, he and his wife had become very wealthy, principally as a result of inheritances from Dervorguilla's family. This wealth allowed Balliol to play a prominent public role, and, on Henry III's instruction, he served as joint protector of the young king of Scots, Alexander III. He was one of Henry III's leading counsellors between 1258 and 1265 and was appointed Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire from 1261 to 1262. He was captured at the battle of Lewes in 1264 but escaped and rejoined King Henry. [...] Following a dispute with the Bishop of Durham, he agreed to provide funds for scholars studying at Oxford. Support for a house of students began in around 1263; further endowments after his death, supervised by Dervorguilla, resulted in the establishment of Balliol College.

  
  

• Sources

  [S802] Andrew B. W. MacEwen, "A Clarification of the Dunbar Pedigree." The Genealogist 9:229, Fall 1998. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.