Hugh (Balliol) de Balliol (abt. 1239 - bef. 1271)

Born about 1239 in Barnard Castle, Durham, England

Ancestors

Husband of Agnes (Valence) d'Avesnes — married after 28 Jul 1268 in Bernard Castle, Gainford, Durham, England

Died before 10 Apr 1271 before about age 32 in East Riding, Yorkshire, England

Biography

Hugh de Balliol (Baliol or Balliolo) was the eldest son and heir of John de Balliol and his wife Devourgilla of Galloway^[1];^[2] and was born about 1238-1240 (he is variously called aged 28 and more or 30 or more in the inquisitions post mortem for his father).^[3]

Hugh was granted lands in Yorkshire, including Driffeud, Kelithorp, Brigham, Besewik and Killum, originally the inheritance of his mother, and succeeded to other estates in Northumberland, Yorkshire, and Hertfordshire after the death of this father in about October 1268.^[3]

• Fine Roll C 60/66, 53 HENRY III (1268–1269)

Images of roll C 60/66

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Roll of the fines of the fifty-third year.

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26 Dec. Winchester. Concerning homage and relief. The king has taken the homage of Hugh de Balliol son and heir of John de Balliol lately deceased for all the lands and tenements that the aforementioned John his father held of the king in chief on the day he died, and he has rendered those lands and tenements to him. Order to John le Moyne, escheator this side of the Trent, that having accepted security from the aforesaid Hugh for rendering his reasonable relief at the Exchequer, to cause the same Hugh to have full seisin without delay of all the aforesaid lands and tenements of which the aforementioned John his father was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died and which were taken into the king’s hand by reason of his death, saving to Devorgilla who was the wife of the same John her inheritance and her rightful dower falling to the same from the lands and tenements aforesaid.^[4]

At about this time or soon after, he married, as her second husband, Agnes de Valence, daughter of William de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and widow of Maurice FitzGerald, who had drowned in a crossing to Ireland in July 1268.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Stell, G.P. ‘Balliol, John de (b. before 1208, d. 1268)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Online version accessed 23 March 2024
2. ↑ Vincent, John A.C. 'Sir Alexander Balliol of Cavers and the Barony of Valoynes' in The Genealogist, Vol. 6, pp. 1-7. ed. by George W. Marshall, London: George Bell and Sons. 1882. Digital image. Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/genealogist06mars : viewed 25 April 2017.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Deputy Keeper of the Records. 1904. Calendar of the Inquisitions Post Mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office: Vol 1. Henry III. London: Mackie & Co. p. 218-220. Digital images. Internet Archive.
4. ↑ Fine Roll C 60/66, 53 HENRY III (1268–1269.[1]
5. ↑ Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage: or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times, 2nd ed., vol. 10, p. 16. revised, enlarged & edited by H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White & Lord Howard de Walden, London: St Catherine Press, 1926. Published in electronic form by ABC Publications, London, 2003.

See also:

• Richardson, Douglas. 2013. Royal Ancestry Vol. IV p. 54
• Clay, JW: Extinct Northern Peerages, page 6, VI - https://archive.org/stream/extinctdormantpe00clay#page/6/mode/2up
• Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office (H.M. Stationery Office, London, 1904) Vol. 1: Henry III.

• Page 251-2: #773. Hugh de Balliolo. "Writ to Guichard de Charrun and William de Kirketon, for the purpose of assigning her dower to Agnes de Valenita, the king's niece, late the wife of the said Hugh, 10 April, 55 Hen. III."
• Page 270-1: #804. "Alexander de Balliolo, his brother, is his heir and of full age and more."