Henry de Balliol, of Cavers, Chamberlain of Scotland

Sir Henry de Baliol of Cavers (died 1246) was Chamberlain of Scotland. According to Wikipedia, Henry was a younger son of Eustace de Baliol and Petronilla, but Eustace’s sons were by his first wife. Others show him as son of Ingleram de Balliol by his wife, the daughter of Walter de Berkeley.

Origins

PoMS, no. 1770 (https://www.poms.ac.uk/record/person/1770/; accessed 01 May 2023)

Hugh Balliol, lord of Barnard Castle in County Durham, was the eldest son of Eustace de Hélicourt (later de Balliol; d.c.1208). He had at least three brothers, Bernard (d.1212), perhaps a cleric, Ingram (d.1239×44), lord of Urr and Dalton in Galloway and Tours-en-Vimeu in Picardy, and Henry (d.1246), later chamberlain of Scotland.

From http://www.1066.co.nz/Mosaic%20DVD/whoswho/text/Baliol%5B1%5D.htm

A cadet branch of the Baliol family was descended from Ingelram, or Engelram, a son of the younger Bernard de Baliol. Ingelram's wife was the daughter and heiress of William de Berkeley, lord of Reidcastle in Forfarshire, and chamberlain of Scotland, and by her he had a son Henry, who became chamberlain about 1223. Henry married Lora or Lauretta, a daughter of Philip de Valoines (Valsques), lord of Panmure, and in 1234 inherited part of the rich English fiefs of the Valoines family. He sided with the English barons against John in 1215, and accompanied Henry III to France in 1242. He died in 1246.

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The name of Ingelran’s wife is not known. Ingelran & his wife had [three] children:

a) [HENRY de Balliol (-after 12 Feb 1246). According to the Complete Peerage, Henry was son of Ingelran and brother of Ellen [869]. It has not been possible to check the sources cited. According to Burke’s Extinct Peerage, he was the son of Eustace de Balliol[870], although this source is usually less reliable.

From a chronological point of view, it seems unlikely that Henry, son of Eustace de Balliol, would have been the husband of Loreta de Valoignes.

Another possibility is that he was the same person as Henry, son of Henry de Balliol, who is named above. "…Henrico de Ballol…" witnessed the charter dated 3 Feb 1231 under which Alexander II King of Scotland founded Balmerino Abbey[871]. "Henr de Balliol cam, Johe de Vall, Nichol de Sulis" witnessed the charter dated 16 Feb 1246 under which Alexander II King of Scotland recorded a dispute regarding "terram de Dunroden quam tenet in Galuuath de dono Fergi" and Holyrood abbey[872].]

Family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_Baliol

He married Lora, daughter of William de Valognes, lord of Panmure, and sister of Isabel and Christina de Valognes. He obtained the chamberlainship which had been held by his father-in-law.

By Lora he had known children:

• Guy de Baliol, (died 4 August 1265) who was killed during the Battle of Evesham.
• Alexander de Baliol of Cavers (died 1311), who also served as Chamberlain of Scotland. only daughter Constance, who married a member of a Fishburn family in England (perhaps the Fishburn family of County Durham)
• William de Balliol, clerk.
• Ada de Balliol
• Lora de Balliol, married Gilbert de Gaunt, without issue.

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From Medlands:

m (before 1233) LORETA de Valoignes, daughter of WILLIAM de Valoignes Chamberlain of Scotland & his wife Loreta de Quincy (-after 25 May 1233). "Henry de Balliol and Lora his wife, David Cumin and Isabel his wife, and Piers de Maudue and Christine his wife, had livery of the lands which Christine, late the wife of W. Earl of Maundeville had held from the king in chief" dated 25 May 1233[873].

Henry & his wife had three children:

• i) GUY Balliol (-killed in battle Evesham 1265). "Alexander de Balliolo dominus de Caveris" donated "medietatem bosci de Gladiswod que quondam fuit domini Johannis de Wallibus et domine Deruorgille sponse sue" to Dryburgh monastery, for the soul of "domini Gwido fratris mei", by undated charter[874]. Standard-bearer of Simon de Montfort at the battle of Evesham in 1265, where he was killed[875].
• ii) ALEXANDER Balliol of Cavers, co. Roxburgh (-[19 Apr 1310/Jun 1311]). "Alexander de Balliolo dominus de Caveris" donated "medietatem bosci de Gladiswod que quondam fuit domini Johannis de Wallibus et domine Deruorgille sponse sue" to Dryburgh monastery, for the soul of "domini Gwido fratris mei", by undated charter[876]…. m (shortly after 7 Nov 1270) as her second husband, ISABEL of Chilham, widow of DAVID of Strathbogie Earl of Atholl, daughter of RICHARD Lord of Chilham & his wife Maud Ctss of Angus (after 1245-18 Mar 1292). She was heiress of her brother at Chilham. … Alexander & his wife had two children: …
• iii) LORA Balliol (-1309). The Stemma fundatoris of Bardney Abbey names “Loram, sororem Alexandri de Balliolf” as wife of ”Gilbertus”, son of Gilbert, adding that they died childless[886]. Inquisitions after a writ dated 26 Jan "2 Edw I" following the death of "Gilbert de Gaunt" name “Gilbert de Gaunt [his son and heir] is his next and of full age...aged 24 and more...25”, and notes that he had given Hundemanby to “Gilbert his son...in marriage with Lora de Balyolo”[887]. m (before 26 Jan 1274) GILBERT de Gaunt Lord Gaunt, son of GILBERT de Gaunt of Folkingham & his wife --- ([1249]-1298).

Biography

From Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 03 Baliol, Henry de by Aeneas James George Mackay Baliol, John de (d.1269)

BALIOL, HENRY de (d. 1246), chamberlain of Scotland, was the son of Ingelram and grandson of Bernard de Baliol, of Barnard Castle. His mother was daughter and heiress of William de Berkeley, lord of Reidcastle in Forfarshire, and chamberlain of Scotland under William the Lion in 1165. William de Berkeley was succeeded in this high office, not yet divided into those of the treasurer and comptroller, and entrusted with the superintendence of the whole royal revenues, by Philip de Valoines and his son William de Valoines, lords of Panmure. The latter died in 1219, leaving only a daughter, and Henry de Baliol, who had married his sister Lora, obtained the chamberlainship which had been held by the father both of his mother and his wife.

Although invited by King John to take his side shortly before Magna Charta, it is probable that, like his sovereign, Alexander II, he joined the party of the barons. He is mentioned in the Scottish records in various years between 1223 and 1244, and the appointment of Sir John Maxwell, of Caerlaverock, who appears as chamberlain in 1231, must either have been temporary, or Baliol must have retained the title after demitting the office, which Crawford (Officers of State, p. 261) supposes him to have done in 1231.

In 1234 he succeeded, in right of his wife as coheiress, along with Christian de Valoines, her niece, wife of Peter de Maule, ancestor of the Maules of Panmure, to the English fiefs of the Valoines, vacant by the death of Christian, countess of Essex, a rich inheritance, situated in six shires.

In 1241 he attended Henry III to the Gascon war, and, dying in 1246, was buried at Melrose.

It is probable, but not certain, that Alexander de Baliol of Cavers, also chamberlain of Scotland [see Baliol, Alexander de], was his son. His only daughter, Constance, married an Englishman of the name of Fishburn.

[Documents in Panmure Charter Chest; Act. Parl. Scot. i. 403 a, 405 b, 407 b, 408 b; Chronicle of Melrose; Dugdale's Baronage; Crawford's Lives of Officers of State, p. 260.]

From Lives of the Baillies page 3

EUSTACE DE BALIOL,

who gave £100 for license to marry the widow of Eobert Fitzpiers. He left three sons —

Hugh, his successor, of whom hereafter.

Henry, married Lora, one of the co-heiresses of Christian, wife of William de Marchville, Earl of Essex, and died anno 1246, his widow, Lady Lauretta, having had livery of all the lands in Essex, Hertford, and Norfolk, which he held of her inheritance.

Eustace de Balliol, junior, married Helewise,

Surname also shown as "de Baliol".

date of birth seen as 1192

knighted

References

1. Wikipedia contributors. "Henry de Baliol." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 25 Apr. 2023. Web. 1 May. 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_Baliol
2. http://www.thepeerage.com/p7221.htm#i72210
   1. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 386. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
3. Beam, Amanda G. (2005). The Political Ambitions and influences of the Balliol Dynasty, c. 1210-1364 (pp. 31, 69). (Doctoral Dissertation). Stirling: University of Stirling. Retrieved from Stirling Online Research Repository (Available online); accessed 20 March 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2533 place Henry as son of Eustace (d c 1200)
4. Stirnet's "Baliol1" page places Henry of Cavers as son of Barnard de Baliol of Bywell (Northumberland) & Barnard Castle (c. Durham) (d before 1193) and brother to Eustace (d c 1200). [SIC: disproved. Bernard had no issue]
5. https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTLAND.htm#EustaceBalliolMAgnes places Henry of Cavers as nephew to Eustace (d c 1200)
6. From ARO31: Brian Hope-Taylor’s archaeological legacy: Excavations at Mote of Urr, 1951 and 1953. By David Perry. (2018). Page 17-18. < PDF > Enguerrand Balliol (figure 5) was an influential figure in thirteenth-century Galloway and was well connected within the lordship and within Scotland and northern England generally (Stell 1985: Table 5 and p. 154). He was the younger brother of Hugh I Balliol, lord of Barnard Castle in Co Durham, and elder brother of Henry Balliol of Cavers in Roxburghshire, who would become chamberlain of King Alexander II in the 1220s (Stringer 1993, 112).
7. From “Lives of the Baillies”, page 3. < link > EUSTACE DE BALIOL, who gave £100 for license to marry the widow of Robert Fitzpiers. He left three sons —1) Hugh, his successor, of whom hereafter. 2) Henry, married Lora, one of the co-heiresses of Christian, wife of William de Marchville, Earl of Essex, and died anno 1246, his widow, Lady Lauretta, having had livery of all the lands in Essex, Hertford, and Norfolk, which he held of her inheritance. 3) Eustace de Balliol, junior, married Helewise …