Guy I de Balliol

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Guy I de Balliol was an French baron who was granted land in northern England in the late eleventh-century. In the 1090s, he was established in the north of England by King William Rufus, as part of King William's carve-up of the forfeited earldom of Northumberland.[1]

The historian Frank Barlow, Balliol's dynasty was one those "originated in the reign" and were "planted ... in the frontier areas in order to protect and advance the kingdom".[2] Geoffrey Stell said that Guy's northern territories were given "almost certainly in return for support rendered in William's campaigns on the eastern frontier of Normandy in 1091 and 1094".[1]

Guy himself originated in a frontier area, coming from from Bailleul-en-Vimeu close to Abbeville on the frontier of the county of Ponthieu with the duchy of Normandy.[1] Guy's nephew Bernard I de Balliol succeeded to Guy's estates before 1130 × 1133, meaning that Guy had died by then.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Stell, "Balliol, Bernard de".
  2. ^ Barlow, William Rufus, p. 172.

[edit] References

  • Barlow, Frank, William Rufus, (New Haven, 2000), ISBN 0-300-08291-6
  • Stell, G. P., "Balliol, Bernard de (d. 1154x62)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 24 Jan 2008
Preceded by
?		 Lord of Balliol Succeeded by
Bernard I