Individual Details
Dervorguille Galloway
(1218 - 28 Jan 1290)
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== Biography ==
DEVORGUILLA of Galloway ([1218]-28 Jan 1290, bur Sweetheart Abbey, Kirkland). The Annales Londonienses name "Devorgoille de Baillol" as second of the three daughters of "la primere fille Davi" and "Aleyn de Gavei"[497]. According to the Chronicle of Melrose[498], Devorguilla was second daughter of Alan of Galloway, when recording her marriage in 1233 to "John de Baylol". The Extracta ex Cronicis Scocie records that "Diuorgilla filia Alani domini de Galwidia" founded "monasterium Dulcicordis ordinis Cisterciensis et fratrum minorum de Dundee"[499]. m ([1233]) JOHN de Balliol of Barnard Castle, co Durham, son of HUGH Balliol [Bailleul] of Barnard Castle & his wife Cecilia de Fontaines (-before 24 Oct 1268 or 1269). ''Alan of Galloway 5. Devorguilla'' Medieval Lands
"Born some time after 1209, the date of her parents' marriage, her distinctive Gaelic name, Derbhforgaill, was probably derived from an Irish ancestor in the Galloway line, possibly from an aunt, and was in turn transmitted to a granddaughter through one of her own daughters. Although Dervorguilla was the lord of Galloway's third daughter, and the second of his marriage to Margaret, the fact that Margaret was herself an eldest daughter was adjudged to give Dervorguilla's son, John, the stronger right to the vacant throne of Scotland over the claims of Robert (V) de Brus, son of Margaret's younger sister, Isabel. This was the outcome of the Great Cause of 12912, the culmination of a series of events in which Dervorguilla's connections transformed the fortunes of the Balliol family." ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''
She founded New Abbey (Sweetheart Abbey) in Galloway, 10 April 1273. She endowed Balliol College, Oxford, in 1284.
See Wikipedia article on Dervorguilla [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervorguilla_of_Galloway here]
== Children ==She is known to have had at least eight children with John de Balliol, and she outlived all except the youngest of her four sons, Hugh, Alan, Alexander, and John, later King John. The names and sequence of her four daughters are uncertain but they were probably Margaret, Cecily, Ada, and Eleanor, in that order.
== Burial == Devorguilla was buried beside her husband at New Abbey, which was christened 'Sweetheart Abbey', the name which it retains to this day. The depredations suffered by the Abbey in subsequent periods have caused both graves to be lost.
==Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 Vol. I p. 229-232
: See also:
* ''Medieval Lands'', database online, (accessed 31 March 2015), Charles Cawley and Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#AlanGallowaydied12331234 ''Alan of Galloway 5. Devorguilla'']. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, Kings of Scotland. Medieval Lands data content and text are copyright © Charles Cawley, 2006-15.
* Richardson, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463561687/sr=8-1/qid=1397864689/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1397864689&seller=&sr=8-1 Royal Ancestry]'' (2013) Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463561687/sr=8-1/qid=1397864689/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1397864689&seller=&sr=8-1 Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), volume I, page 228 #5.
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== Biography ==
DEVORGUILLA of Galloway ([1218]-28 Jan 1290, bur Sweetheart Abbey, Kirkland). The Annales Londonienses name "Devorgoille de Baillol" as second of the three daughters of "la primere fille Davi" and "Aleyn de Gavei"[497]. According to the Chronicle of Melrose[498], Devorguilla was second daughter of Alan of Galloway, when recording her marriage in 1233 to "John de Baylol". The Extracta ex Cronicis Scocie records that "Diuorgilla filia Alani domini de Galwidia" founded "monasterium Dulcicordis ordinis Cisterciensis et fratrum minorum de Dundee"[499]. m ([1233]) JOHN de Balliol of Barnard Castle, co Durham, son of HUGH Balliol [Bailleul] of Barnard Castle & his wife Cecilia de Fontaines (-before 24 Oct 1268 or 1269). ''Alan of Galloway 5. Devorguilla'' Medieval Lands
"Born some time after 1209, the date of her parents' marriage, her distinctive Gaelic name, Derbhforgaill, was probably derived from an Irish ancestor in the Galloway line, possibly from an aunt, and was in turn transmitted to a granddaughter through one of her own daughters. Although Dervorguilla was the lord of Galloway's third daughter, and the second of his marriage to Margaret, the fact that Margaret was herself an eldest daughter was adjudged to give Dervorguilla's son, John, the stronger right to the vacant throne of Scotland over the claims of Robert (V) de Brus, son of Margaret's younger sister, Isabel. This was the outcome of the Great Cause of 12912, the culmination of a series of events in which Dervorguilla's connections transformed the fortunes of the Balliol family." ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''
She founded New Abbey (Sweetheart Abbey) in Galloway, 10 April 1273. She endowed Balliol College, Oxford, in 1284.
See Wikipedia article on Dervorguilla [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervorguilla_of_Galloway here]
== Children ==She is known to have had at least eight children with John de Balliol, and she outlived all except the youngest of her four sons, Hugh, Alan, Alexander, and John, later King John. The names and sequence of her four daughters are uncertain but they were probably Margaret, Cecily, Ada, and Eleanor, in that order.
== Burial == Devorguilla was buried beside her husband at New Abbey, which was christened 'Sweetheart Abbey', the name which it retains to this day. The depredations suffered by the Abbey in subsequent periods have caused both graves to be lost.
==Sources ==
*Royal Ancestry 2013 Vol. I p. 229-232
: See also:
* ''Medieval Lands'', database online, (accessed 31 March 2015), Charles Cawley and Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#AlanGallowaydied12331234 ''Alan of Galloway 5. Devorguilla'']. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, Kings of Scotland. Medieval Lands data content and text are copyright © Charles Cawley, 2006-15.
* Richardson, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463561687/sr=8-1/qid=1397864689/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1397864689&seller=&sr=8-1 Royal Ancestry]'' (2013) Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463561687/sr=8-1/qid=1397864689/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1397864689&seller=&sr=8-1 Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), volume I, page 228 #5.
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Events
| Birth | 1218 | Galloway, Wigtownshire (Perth), Scotland | |||
| Marriage | 1233 | Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland - Sir John Balliol | |||
| Death | 28 Jan 1290 | Galloway, Scotland | |||
| Alt name | FitzRoland of Galloway | ||||
| Reference No | 10413610 | ||||
| Reference No | 11013637 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Sir John Balliol (1208 - 1268) |
| Father | Sir Alan "Lord of Galloway, Constable of Scotland" Galloway (1186 - 1234) |
| Mother | Margaret Huntingdon (1194 - 1233) |
| Sibling | Marian Galloway (1216 - 1300) |
| Sibling | Daughter Of Galloway (1212 - ) |
| Sibling | Christian Galloway (1214 - 1246) |
| Sibling | Eve Galloway (1215 - 1280) |
| Sibling | Alicia DeGalloway (1223 - 1280) |