Bernard de Balliol, II, Baron of Bywell

Bernard II de Balliol (died c. 1190) was the fourth and youngest son of Bernard I de Balliol, lord of Balliol and Barnard Castle. Bernard appears to have succeeded his older brother Guy II de Balliol to the Balliol estates sometime between the early 1160s and 1167.[1]

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Bernard is most famous for his role in the capture of William the Lion, King of the Scots, near Alnwick in 1174.[1] Bernard, described as a "man noble and high-spirited", was said by William of Newburgh to have originated and led the attack on the Scottish king that led to his capture.[2]

Bernard de Balliol is last found in the historical records in the year 1189, at Dover conducting an agreement with the Bishop of Durham at the court of King Richard the Lionheart; he was succeeded in the following year by his cousin Eustace.[1]

He married a woman named Agnes de Picquigny, whose exact origins are a matter of historical debate.[1] Despite popular claims, Bernard had no recorded children, and his successor was his cousin Eustace de Helicourt, who (re)took the Balliol name and renamed himself Eustace de Balliol.[1]

Notes
1. Stell, G. P., "Balliol, Bernard de (d. c.1190)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 24 Jan 2008. <subscription>
2. Anderson, Alan Orr (1908), Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers A.D. 500 to 1286, London: D. Nutt. , p. 253. <Archive.Org>

Bernard II de Balliol, Lord of Bywell, is supposed to have been the founder of the fortress on the banks of the Tees called "Bernard Castle."

Bernard participated in the victory over the Scots on 22 August 1138 in the Battle of the Standard, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. He was taken prisoner at Lincoln with King Stephen.

He again took up arms, on the incursion of the Scots, in 1174, and joining Robert de Stutevile, he proceeded to the relief of Alnwick Castle. Bernard seized the King of Scots with his own hand, and sent him prisoner to the castle of Richmod.

Despite unfounded statements to the contrary, Bernard de Balliol had no children, certainly none that survived long enough to find their way into written record. His last datable act was a final concord with the bishop of Durham in the court of Richard I at Dover in early December 1189, and he was succeeded during 1190 by his cousin, Eustace de Helicourt, who assumed the Balliol patronymic and remarried in that year.

BERNARD de Balliol (-after 1174). The Liber Vitæ of Durham lists (in order) "Bernardus Bail senior, Bernardus junior filius eius, Ingelram le b filius eius, Wid et Eustacius filii eius, Matilda mater et Hawisia et altera Hawis, et domina Agnes de Pinchensi uxor junioris Bernardi, Rogerus filius Hugonis nepos eius et Johannes frater Rogerii"[741]. “Bernardus de Bajollio et uxor mea Mathildis et filii mei Ingerannus et Wido, Eustachius et Bernardus, et filia mea Atuidis” donated property to Cluny by charter dated [1138][742]. "Bernard de Baill" donated "piscatoria in Twede" to the monastery of Kelso, for the souls of "H. [error for "M."?] comit. et filii mei" by charter dated to [1150], witnessed by "Wydone filio meo et Bernardo et aliis"[743]. "B. de Balliolo" granted Gainford church and the chapel of Barnard´s Castle, Durham, inherited from "Wid de Balliol me avuncul", to York St Mary by charter dated to [1150], witnessed by "Ingelranno de Ball…Bnard de Ball…"[744]. “Bernardus de Balillol” confirmed donations to the monks of Whitby, for the souls of “…fratrisque mei Wydonis et sororis mee Hawis”, by charter dated to [1155/67][745]. The Red Book of the Exchequer refers to "Bernardus de Ballol xx l" in Yorkshire in [1161/62][746]. “Bernardus de Balliolo” donated property to the monks of Rievaulx, for the souls of “…Jocelini avunculi mei…et uxoris mee”, by charter dated to [1161/67][747]. He captured William "the Lion" King of Scotland at Alnwick in 1174 after the latter's invasion of Northumberland. He is reputed to have founded Barnard Castle on the banks of the River Tees[748]. m AGNES de Pinkeney, daughter of ---. The Liber Vitæ of Durham lists (in order) "Bernardus Bail senior, Bernardus junior filius eius, Ingelram le b filius eius, Wid et Eustacius filii eius, Matilda mater et Hawisia et altera Hawis, et domina Agnes de Pinchensi uxor junioris Bernardi, Rogerus filius Hugonis nepos eius et Johannes frater Rogerii"[749].
[741] Liber Vitæ Dunelmensis, p. 103. [742] Cluny Tome V 4060, p. 412. [743] Kelso, Tome I, 52, p. 42. [744] Early Charters (Crawford), XVIII, p. 34. [745] Early Yorkshire Charters I, 571, p. 448. [746] Red Book Exchequer, Part I, Knights fees, p. 29. [747] Early Yorkshire Charters I, 562, p. 440. [748] BEP, p. 21. [749] Liber Vitæ Dunelmensis, p. 103.

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