Individual Details
Hugh "Baron of Bywell and Northumberland" Balliol
(Abt 1180 - Abt 2 May 1229)
Hugh de Balliol (d.1229)[[Wikipedia: Hugh de Balliol]] of Barnard Castle, Durham, Baron of Bywell, Northumberland.
He was granted on 25 Feb 1203/4 (in his father's lifetime) the right to hold a fair at Newbrigging. In 1209 he had a plea against Robert Bertram for two caracutes of land in Penemore.
In 1211/12 he held 30 knights fees. He was a stout adherent of King John in his quarrel with his Barons,Browning, 1898 and is, together with his brother Bernard, named as one of that King's "evil counsellors".
He gave 10 acres in Newsum to Rievaulx for the soul of Cecilia, his wife. According to le Marquis de Belleval, Hugh's wife, Cecilia was a sister of Hugh, and daughter of Aleaure, seigneur de Fontaines, who was also Lord of Longpre, giving it his fishery at Courcon, which was part of her maritagium.
Besides his son and heir John, he had a daughter Ada de Baliol who married John FitzRobert of Warkworth; her father Hugh gave her the fee of Stokesley in frank marriage.
== Court Records ==
3 May 1218 - Westminster.
: The count of Aumale, the earl Warenne, J. constable of Chester, the constable of Tickhill, Robert de Ros and Hugh de Balliol were summoned to come before the barons of the Exchequer at Trinity in 15 days to answer why they have hindered the sheriff of Yorkshire in taking the kings pleas and doing as others ought to do and are accustomed to do in the same county to the kings advantage, so that he has been and is unable to pay his farm and to answer for the debts of the king and other things for which he has summons. Witness the earl.Fine Roll 2/52
2 Sep 1218 - Tower of London. Hertfordshire.
: Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to take the manor of Hugh de Balliol of Hitchin into the kings hand and place one of his servants alongside one of Hughs servants to keep it, so that nothing be removed until he will be ordered otherwise, because Hugh does not wish to obey the kings order to surrender the honour of Wolverton to the archbishop of Canterbury, as he was ordered. Witness the earl.Fine Roll 2/203
28 Jun 1219 - Hereford.
: Robert de Vieuxpont has shown the kings council that whereas all of the kings predecessors, kings of England, always had a mine in Tynedale pertaining to the kings castle of Carlisle, for which the constable of the same castle ought to answer the king. Hugh de Balliol impeded the miners working therein to the kings damage, not permitting them to work as they had been accustomed to do. Order to Hugh to desist from this manner of impediment, permitting the miners to work the mines as they were accustomed to work in the times of the kings predecessors, doing this so that the king need not apply a corrective hand. Witness H. etc. By the same in the presence of the bishop of Winchester.Fine Roll 3/359a
12 Nov 1221
: Hugh de Balliol gives the king one palfrey for having an annual two-day fair, until the king comes of age, at his manor of Hitchin on the eve and feast of St. Andrew, unless that fair etc.Fine Roll 6/21
27 Jul 1224 - Northumberland.
: Order to the sheriff of Northumberland to place in respite the demand he makes from Hugh de Balliol for scutage for the army of Wales until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year.Fine Roll 8/283
28 Sep 1228 - Kerry. For John FitzAlan.
: John fitz Alan has made fine with the king by 300 m. for having seisin of the land of Cold Norton with appurtenances, which he claims to be his right and inheritance without prejudice to the right of each person . Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire that, having accepted security from John for rendering the aforesaid 300 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land without delay, saving to Hugh de Balliol his corn of this autumn and his other chattels that he has in the same land.Fine Roll 12/286
''(Special thanks to [[Athey-67 | Darlene Athey Hill]] for locating and transcribing the above court records in the Fine Rolls.)''
== Sources ==
Browning, C. (1898). The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants Together with the Pedigrees of the Founders of the Order of Runnemede Deduced from the Sureties for the Enforcement of the Statutes of the Magna Charta of King John. Philadelphia. [https://archive.org/stream/magnachartabaro00browgoog archive.org]; [https://books.google.com/books?id=hTUfAAAAMAAJ Google Books].
GeneaJourney.com
Henry III Fine Rolls Project
Richardson, D. (2005). Magna Carta Ancestry'. N.p.
[[Wikipedia: Hugh de Balliol]]
He was granted on 25 Feb 1203/4 (in his father's lifetime) the right to hold a fair at Newbrigging. In 1209 he had a plea against Robert Bertram for two caracutes of land in Penemore.
In 1211/12 he held 30 knights fees. He was a stout adherent of King John in his quarrel with his Barons,Browning, 1898 and is, together with his brother Bernard, named as one of that King's "evil counsellors".
He gave 10 acres in Newsum to Rievaulx for the soul of Cecilia, his wife. According to le Marquis de Belleval, Hugh's wife, Cecilia was a sister of Hugh, and daughter of Aleaure, seigneur de Fontaines, who was also Lord of Longpre, giving it his fishery at Courcon, which was part of her maritagium.
Besides his son and heir John, he had a daughter Ada de Baliol who married John FitzRobert of Warkworth; her father Hugh gave her the fee of Stokesley in frank marriage.
== Court Records ==
3 May 1218 - Westminster.
: The count of Aumale, the earl Warenne, J. constable of Chester, the constable of Tickhill, Robert de Ros and Hugh de Balliol were summoned to come before the barons of the Exchequer at Trinity in 15 days to answer why they have hindered the sheriff of Yorkshire in taking the kings pleas and doing as others ought to do and are accustomed to do in the same county to the kings advantage, so that he has been and is unable to pay his farm and to answer for the debts of the king and other things for which he has summons. Witness the earl.Fine Roll 2/52
2 Sep 1218 - Tower of London. Hertfordshire.
: Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to take the manor of Hugh de Balliol of Hitchin into the kings hand and place one of his servants alongside one of Hughs servants to keep it, so that nothing be removed until he will be ordered otherwise, because Hugh does not wish to obey the kings order to surrender the honour of Wolverton to the archbishop of Canterbury, as he was ordered. Witness the earl.Fine Roll 2/203
28 Jun 1219 - Hereford.
: Robert de Vieuxpont has shown the kings council that whereas all of the kings predecessors, kings of England, always had a mine in Tynedale pertaining to the kings castle of Carlisle, for which the constable of the same castle ought to answer the king. Hugh de Balliol impeded the miners working therein to the kings damage, not permitting them to work as they had been accustomed to do. Order to Hugh to desist from this manner of impediment, permitting the miners to work the mines as they were accustomed to work in the times of the kings predecessors, doing this so that the king need not apply a corrective hand. Witness H. etc. By the same in the presence of the bishop of Winchester.Fine Roll 3/359a
12 Nov 1221
: Hugh de Balliol gives the king one palfrey for having an annual two-day fair, until the king comes of age, at his manor of Hitchin on the eve and feast of St. Andrew, unless that fair etc.Fine Roll 6/21
27 Jul 1224 - Northumberland.
: Order to the sheriff of Northumberland to place in respite the demand he makes from Hugh de Balliol for scutage for the army of Wales until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year.Fine Roll 8/283
28 Sep 1228 - Kerry. For John FitzAlan.
: John fitz Alan has made fine with the king by 300 m. for having seisin of the land of Cold Norton with appurtenances, which he claims to be his right and inheritance without prejudice to the right of each person . Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire that, having accepted security from John for rendering the aforesaid 300 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land without delay, saving to Hugh de Balliol his corn of this autumn and his other chattels that he has in the same land.Fine Roll 12/286
''(Special thanks to [[Athey-67 | Darlene Athey Hill]] for locating and transcribing the above court records in the Fine Rolls.)''
== Sources ==
Browning, C. (1898). The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants Together with the Pedigrees of the Founders of the Order of Runnemede Deduced from the Sureties for the Enforcement of the Statutes of the Magna Charta of King John. Philadelphia. [https://archive.org/stream/magnachartabaro00browgoog archive.org]; [https://books.google.com/books?id=hTUfAAAAMAAJ Google Books].
GeneaJourney.com
Henry III Fine Rolls Project
Richardson, D. (2005). Magna Carta Ancestry'. N.p.
[[Wikipedia: Hugh de Balliol]]
Events
| Birth | Abt 1180 | Barnard Castle, Durham, England | |||
| Marriage | 1200 | Barhard Castle, Durham, England - Cecily Fontaines | |||
| Death | Abt 2 May 1229 | Gainford, Durham, England | |||
| Reference No | 3538148 | ||||
| Reference No | |||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Cecily Fontaines (1180 - 1227) |
| Child | Ada Balliol (1204 - 1251) |
| Child | Sir John Balliol (1208 - 1268) |
| Child | Eustace Balliol (1208 - ) |
| Child | Theopharcia Balliol (1209 - 1263) |
| Child | Bernard Balliol (1210 - ) |
| Child | Jocelin Balliol (1214 - ) |
| Father | Sir Eustace "Lord of Helicourt, 3rd Baron Balliol" Helicourt (1155 - 1209) |
| Mother | Lady Petronelle "Lady Balliol of Barnard Fitzpiers" Unknown (1158 - 1198) |